Mixing Lean UX and Agile Development - How to minimize risk, maximize flexibility, and create the right product. Presented at Lean UX NYC (http://leanuxnyc.co/nyc/) April 11, 2013. http://blog.carbonfive.com/2013/02/28/join-lane-and-courtney-in-the-big-apple-for-leanux-nyc/

1. Mixing Lean UX &
Agile Development
How to minimize risk, maximize flexibility, and
create the right product.

2. Lane Halley
@thinknow
lane@carbonfive.com
Courtney Hemphill
@chemphill
courtney@carbonfive.com

3. We used to design and build
applications.

4. Now we design and build:
Products
Companies
Experiences
Services
We used to design and build
applications.

5. Disappearing Boundaries

6. Disappearing Boundaries
brand strategy
information architect
experience design
interaction design
front-end development
backend development
database development
data analysis
system operations
visual design

7. Emerging Technology

8. Emerging Technology
rapid prototyping
living style guides
in browser design
responsive design
client side scripting
offline apps
websockets
real time updates
mobile
html5 and canvas

9. How do you keep up
with all that?

10. You don’t need
a unicorn.

11. Some stories about how
we help our clients find
their cadence.

12. A little about us ...

13. Carbon Five

14. Roles & Responsibilities
developer + designer + product owner
One team
Everyone participates

15. Sprints as
Experiments

16. What is your highest risk,
highest reward feature?

17. Just in Time Design

18. Short Kickoff

19. Cadence

20. Case Studies
nib.ly
from

21. Week
at a
Glance
Monday
APRIL
MAY
week 18
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
reflect & define
specify
build & refine
build & refine
customer feedback!

22. Monday

23. Retrospective

24. Customer Feedback Review
Stickies
Audio
Video
Notes
boardroom.carbonfive.com

25. Whiteboard
Wireframing

26. Hypothesis
Definition

27. Clean Up and Prep

28. Tuesday

29. Story Writing

30. Story Breakdown &
Estimation

31. Pair Sketching

32. Story Mapping

33. Wednesday
& Thursday

34. Feature
Development

35. Whiteboard
Wireframing

36. Living Style Guide
& Visual Assets

37. Designer/Developer
Pairing

38. Designer/Developer
Pairing

39. Story Acceptance
(yay!)

40. Friday

41. Customer Feedback Prep
What are you testing?
What methods will you use to test?
Broad or specific?

42. Feedback
Session

43. Five on
Friday

44. Hybrid
Prototyping

45. Conflict that
arises is critical
to innovation.

46. Foundations
Conversations
story writing, milestone planning, acceptance
Culture
cross-functional teams, design, and dev
integration
Cadence
short term solution-focused product
development

47. Thanks!
Lane Halley
lane@carbonfive.com
@thinknow
Courtney Hemphill
courtney@carbonfive.com
@chemphill