At Daxko, specialized knowledge doesn’t mean specialized work. It means responsibility to coach the entire team to execute well within the specialist’s area of expertise. That’s how we approach user experience (UX) design—our embedded designers on each team have a responsibility to coax good design out of the team through a variety of methods and techniques, but they’re not solely responsible for generating the design. In this combination presentation and panel discussion for PMI Atlanta's Agile Interest Group meeting, we shared how we work at Daxko, how we account for UX in project planning, and how we practice design as a team sport. We also fielded audience questions and gave an honest and transparent view into what we’ve done that works as well as some of the failed experiments we’ve undertaken.

1. UX in Agile
How one team
is making it work
PMI Atlanta Chapter, Agile Interest Group
October 16, 2012
The Daxko Engage team

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Our team
Jason
agile coach
Patrick
dev guy Will
product manager
Astrid
ux designer

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Traditional UX doesn’t work in Agile
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickhewson/4110703246/

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Traditional UX seeks certainty up front
SPECIFY
ALL THE THINGS!

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Agile UX
That’s Jason.
He’s crazy.

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EDJIT*
* Enough Design
Just In Time

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Constant collaboration

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How do you get there?
Individuals and interactions
over processes and tools
Working software
over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration
over contract negotiation
Responding to change
over following a plan

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Individuals and interactions
over processes and tools
Working software
over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration
over contract negotiation
Responding to change
over following a plan

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Embed & commit

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Collaborate

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Individuals and interactions
over processes and tools
Working software
over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration
over contract negotiation
Responding to change
over following a plan

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Goal is delivery, not design

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Individuals and interactions
over processes and tools
Working software
over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration
over contract negotiation
Responding to change
over following a plan

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View customers as partners

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Invite customers into your process

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Individuals and interactions
over processes and tools
Working software
over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration
over contract negotiation
Responding to change
over following a plan

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Court change
from theleanstartup.com

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Prototype and iterate

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Test early and often

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That’s what’s
working for us.
Now, let’s chat.