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Expert: Jeff Gothelf

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Jeff Gothelf has worked for many years as a product designer and team leader. These days he's spending more time as a teacher, workshop leader, and public speaker. He wrote and published the book Lean vs. Agile vs. Design Thinking: What you really need to know to build high-performing digital project teams and co-authored two books with Josh Seiden, the latest one being Sense & Respond: How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously (Harvard Business Press 2017). Jeff has led successful, cross-functional, collaborative, agile teams at organizations of all sizes.
Jeff mainly focuses on building and training evidence-based, customer-centered product development teams. These teams often utilize lean principles and agile software development.

In 2012, along with Josh Seiden and Giff Constable, Jeff launched a lean product design and innovation studio called Proof in NYC where they worked with companies (big and small) building and designing innovative product ideas while helping those organizations adopt leaner development processes. In late 2012, Proof was acquired by Neo Innovation Labs – a larger organization backed by Eric Ries and Joi Ito with an identical vision. You can see more of Jeff’s work at www.jeffgothelf.com

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Jeff Gothelf

Scaling Lean: Project, Program, Portfolio

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Jeff Gothelf

What You’ll Learn

  • Understand objectives and key results (OKRs) that keep the customer at the center of the conversation, at all levels of your organization
  • Get four principles to stay customer-centric and evidence-based as teams and companies grow
  • Learn how to lead growing teams who are interested in working in a Lean/Agile way
  • Discover why there is no silver bullet to scaling Lean/Agile practices
Agile Lean UX Team Management Iterating
May 2, 2017
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Jeff Gothelf

There is No Such Thing as UX Strategy. There is Only Product Strategy.

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Jeff Gothelf

From Rosenfeld Media's Product Management + User Experience Virtual Conference.

UX strategy is part of product strategy. It is not its own thing. Calling it out as such further isolates designers from their colleagues in “the business” and in Product Management. It does nothing to actually drive the value of a holistic user experience into the org’s mainstream conversations. Instead, designers should work closely with Product Managers to inform a product strategy conversation that considers not only the UX but the business’ and product’s success factors as well.

In this talk, Jeff Gothelf—co-author of Lean UX and the forthcoming Sense and Respond—will teach you:

  • Why carving out a separate “UX” strategy is detrimental to team and product cohesion
  • How collaboration between product managers and ux designers can help frame a holistic product strategy
  • How to divide strategic responsibilities between product managers and ux designers so that everyone has their seat at the table
Strategy Product Management Collaboration
February 3, 2016
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Jeff Gothelf

A 5-Year Review of Lean UX

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Jeff Gothelf

What You’ll Learn

  • Agile UX: reduce confusion on agile teams and aim for good, iterative, user-centric designs
  • The brain of the agile process: create a foundation for evidence-based decisions—what to build, why, and how much design work is required
  • Possible in almost every environment: Lean UX is a framework capable of shaping itself to fit your needs
  • Ready for you to adopt: learn 2–3 tactics to share with your team and make the shift to integrate Lean UX
Design Process Agile Lean UX Iterating
November 3, 2015
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Jeff Gothelf

Axe Requirements-driven Product Design

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Jeff Gothelf

What You’ll Learn

  • The time/money/risk realities of typical requirements definition processes
  • How to recognize assumptions, then find the right solutions faster
  • Methods for translating your backlog of features to testable hypotheses
  • Ways to make cross-functional collaboration a part of your process
Design Teams Lean UX
October 21, 2013
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Jeff Gothelf

Moving Beyond Staggered Sprints: How One Company Integrated UX & Agile

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Jeff Gothelf

What You’ll Learn

  • The resources they used to learn about Agile and UX integration
  • The steps they took to begin the integration process
  • How to side-step failures to ensure success
  • How they realized that Agile/UX integration is an iterative process in and of itself
Design Process Agile
March 24, 2012
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Jeff Gothelf

Lean UX: Getting Out of the Deliverables Business

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Jeff Gothelf

What You’ll Learn

  • Work faster, smarter, and happier with lean UX
  • Emphasize experiences over deliverables
  • Understand what to expect when integrating Lean UX into your processes
  • Know which 5 Lean UX tools you should start using today
Agile Lean UX
December 23, 2011