Lean UX and Agile

What you will learn

Use Lean UX to fit within Agile environments

• The tenets of Lean UX
• Applying Lean UX techniques to keep teams focused on the right opportunities
• Collaborative cross-functional involvement
• Activities to perform before development starts
• How to be effective during scrum meetings
• Getting to "done" every sprint
• When a spike is best used (and should not be used) for UX work

Understand and implement the Agile development process

• Benefits of Agile
• Agile development fundamentals
• Delivering quality products quickly
• Creating flexibility to change course as needed
• The "pure" process, hybrid process, and Waterfall
• Creating user stories
• Designing lean visuals in Agile

Overcome the challenges of Agile

• Communication and working with multiple scrum teams
• Getting UX in the team priorities and schedule
• Design and research activities that work well in Agile
• Working ahead vs. in parallel with developers
• Balancing UX work before, during, and after a sprint
• Estimating UX work in the backlog
• Finding time to fix design issues retroactively

Improve the product iteratively

• Choosing an iterative delivery process
• Learning from user feedback
• Having a voice in the backlog
• Sharing beyond the scrum team
• Tracking UX findings and ideas between releases