Topic: Agile

Lean vs. Agile vs. Design Thinking

What You’ll Learn

• Bridge the gaps between product, design, and engineering to build better products
• Lead your team with evidence-based decisions that prioritize the customer success over short-term wins
• View obstacles as an opportunity to educate and collaborate with your team to make continuous improvements

Scaling Lean: Project, Program, Portfolio

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

Estimate and Plan Digital Projects with Ease and Accuracy

What You’ll Learn

• Learn how to choose the right project methodology
• Gain tactics for estimating and scoping a project
• Build a better project plan

Talking To Your Boss
About Lean UX

What You’ll Learn

• Communicate the value of continuous development techniques like Lean UX to your boss
• Learn how Lean UX, Agile, and other techniques are revolutionizing and disrupting business production
• Understand the eight major obstacles for Lean UX teams, and how to avoid them

Balancing Continuous Discovery and Delivery

What You’ll Learn

• Compare traditional design with contemporary design
• Manage multiple priorities at a time using dual-track development
• Be transparent in your process
• Involve the entire team in discovery work

A 5-Year Review of Lean UX

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

Lean UX for Enterprise

What You’ll Learn

• Recognize when Lean UX can help
• Set expectations and get started
• Construct productive teams
• Prepare for obstacles

Making UX Work with Agile Scrum Teams

What You’ll Learn

• Learning from teams who’ve “been there, done that”
• Increasing the value of UX in your organization
• Getting scrum teams involved in UX

It’s a Great Time To Be a UX Designer

There’s never been a better time to be a designer. After years of wishing we’d have the recognition and appreciation for the value we bring, we’re now highly sought after for our talents and skills. A growing number of organizations have seen success through great design, from Apple to Cirque de Soleil to the White House. Others now want to get the same results. The demand for great designers has never been better.

Yet, as the proverb says, "Be careful for what you wish for, lest it become true." Now that everyone expects us to deliver great things, are we ready? While we’re presented with more opportunities than ever, we also have increased challenges.

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

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

What UX Designers Bring To Agile Development

What You’ll Learn

• How to successfully reconcile the different meanings of “customer” in Agile and UX
• Why a solid “Sprint Zero” is not the all-feared Big Design Up Front
• The magic behind working in 2-week sprints
• Using good UX practices to turbocharge good Agile workflow

Designing with Agile

What You’ll Learn

• Play the project game in a different way
• Replace passive collaboration with active collaboration
• Integrate UI design with user stories
• Make UX planning part of the project rhythm

Lean UX: Getting Out of the Deliverables Business

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

Story Mapping for UX Practitioners:
Tying Agile & UX Together

What You’ll Learn

• How to build a story map—something you already use—from scratch
• How to overcome the Agile dogma that often starts projects off on the wrong foot
• Why the story mapping vocabulary can alleviate the lack of common understanding that comes with tying Agile & UX together
• You can put this process in place for projects you’re working on right now

An Agile UX Primer

What You’ll Learn

• Understand the meaning of "Agile"
• Understand The Agile Manifesto - Where agility is a value system, more esthetic than process
• Recognize the seven characteristics of successful Agile Development
• Understand emerging common process life - Cycle and roles - The Customer, the Development Team, and The Coach
• Turn a snowman into an onion - The basic anatomy of an Agile iteration