It sometimes feels like design and product are talking a different language – both striving to get great products out to their customers, but frequently misunderstanding each other on the path to get there. Kate will share the times she’s seen this happen and the ways she’s tackled it so that you can get ahead and create brilliant working partnerships with your product counterparts. About Kate Kate is the Director of Product Design at Sky, working with the teams that look after NOW, Sky Go, Sky Sports and Sky News. Her career has taken her from New York to London, always trying to better the experiences for the people using the products and the people designing them.

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Live
Build
Defined epics
Directed epics
PRIORITISED
ROADMAP
Defined annually,
revised quarterly
Discovery
Undefined
problem
Initial
PR/FAQ
Discovery
check
Monitor
Measure
Next steps /
iterate
BUILD
Refinement,
estimation and
planning (QPP)
Preparation
for planning
Detailed scoping
Roadmap Creation
Discovery
Refined
PR/FAQ
Finalised
PR/FAQ
Sprint cycles
Definition and
design
concepts

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