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Expert: Jeff Patton

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Jeff Patton is the glue that connects good product management and strategy, lean user experience and agile delivery practices together. He has authored numerous articles, essays and, most recently, a book, User Story Mapping. An independent consultant with a unique teaching and speaking style, he uses hand-drawings and engaging storytelling to share his passion for product design.

Jeff has a long, involved history in product design. He has designed and developed software for the past 20 years on a wide variety of projects from online aircraft parts ordering to electronic medical records. Jeff has focused on Agile approaches since working on an early Extreme Programming team in 2000. In particular, he has specialized in the application of user-centered design techniques to improve Agile requirements, planning, and products.

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Jeff Patton

Story Mapping for UX Practitioners:
Tying Agile & UX Together

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Jeff Patton

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
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Jeff Patton

An Agile UX Primer

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Jeff Patton

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