Presentation from this morning's EuroIA workshop thinking about how to apply UX practices in an agile environment

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welcome to agile ux…
practical design
without wireframes

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also known as…
the art of making
mistakes cheaply

3. who we are… on the post-it
‣your name
‣ your current role
‣ your ambition for this session
stand up and tell us who you are, what you
want to achieve and stick the post-it on the
chart based on:
‣ your experience with agile
‣ your feeling towards ux in agile
environments

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practical agile ux
foundation

5. what are the individuals and interactions over
processes and tools
values of agile? working software over comprehensive
documentation
customer collaboration over contract
negotiation
responding to change over following a plan

6. are you familiar scrum
with stories
sprints
game planning
retrospectives

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practical agile ux
foundation

8. some agile ux collaboration over documentation
values iteration over up-front perfection
more is not better, better is better
it’s not done until it’s usable and brings
value to the business

9. collaboration over
documentation
deliverables are
dead…

10. iteration over up-front
perfection
this facilitates
iteration and is
good enough for
the largest bank
in the world

11. it’s not done until it’s usable
and brings value to the
business
photoshop is a
waste of time
and effort…

12. more is not better, select an instrument 0/5000
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13. a hero can’t win
the race without
the team

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practical agile ux
foundation

15. personas
lightweight
quick
useful
flexible

16. story structure
as [persona], Never forget that a story is only ever
supposed to be the opening / an invitation
I want to [goal], to a conversation - the meat is in the
acceptance tests and inter-personal
so that [reason] dialogue
It is not the answer

17. stories
epics… Epic
themes… ‣ Simply a grouping
Theme
stories… ‣ UX granularity, typically a simple, defined user
goal following the standard “story” pattern
Story
‣ Developer granularity always following with
standard “story” pattern
‣ Definition, acceptance tests and score (story
points) done as a collaboration between UX
and Engineering

18. interaction design
sketch,
prototype, share
and iterate when
you need to

19. testing
guerrilla
lightweight
iterative / often
specific
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doos/4818399040/

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basic banking (fx)

21. the personas the speculator the multi-
national
the bank

22. the bank
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hessiebell/100323033/

23. the speculator

24. the
multinational
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tinabinaboobops09/4703495022/

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sprint one:
fx spot trading

26. sprint one
detailed stories as a speculator I want to:
‣ select which currencies exchange rates I can see so
that I only have to cope with the information
(currencies) I deal with
‣ see the price for buying and selling for each of those
currencies so that I can watch the “spread”
‣ specify the amount I want to buy / sell separately for
each currency so that I can see how much it would
actually cost (based on “volume discounts”)
‣ see which way the prices are moving in real time so that
I can see which way the price just moved
‣ see which way the prices are trending over time so that I
can understand which way the market is moving
‣ see prices from multiple dealers for each currency/
amount so that I can pick the best deal

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sprint two:
fx forwards

28. sprint three
themes as a speculator I want to:
‣ be able to get a price quote and execute
trades for any time up to a year in
advance

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gallery

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what we’ve learnt

31. agile ux understanding of agile values
some thoughts on what the ux goals are in
an agile project
introduction to core agile methods (scrum)
how to use and write good stories
how to use sketching to be communicative
and iterative
how to be solution oriented instead of
deliverable oriented

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what nobody
knows…

33. very satisfied
how do you excitement performance
define:
good enough, fail win
sufficient, done,
hygiene
done done…
very dissatisfied

34. is a collectivist
set of principles
in a capitalist
world realistic?

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thank you
@uxplant and @solle
with special respect to: Lab49, Ann Carrier (@pixeldiva), and more…
EuroIA, September 2011