The biggest irony of the shift to Agile is that it’s exactly what the UX world has been seeking for years. Yet, now that it’s here and it seems we’re wholly unprepared for it.
Now that the tables have turned and developers are ready to iterate quickly, our standard UX toolbox feels inadequate for the task. Sure, we can squeeze all of our design work into some sort of “sprint zero” phase, but that just seems to get people upset because it reinvents big-design-up-front, something the Agile movement is desperately trying to get us away from.
Our challenge is to learn what we can about this Agile world and start to adapt to it. We have to cut our designs into chunks while ensuring that it feels like a coherent, well-thought-out design after all the pieces fit together. Unfortunately, Agile doesn’t help us with this. Primarily because Agile was not conceived with a UX component—we’re on our own for this one.
UX and Agile are not natural enemies.
Let’s stop treating them that way.
Get your teams off of the code‑delivery treadmill.
Imagine 5 days where you:
At the end of these 5 days, you’ll see the path to taking control of your Agile process. You’ll see how:
Between Monday, July 19 and Friday, July 23, you’ll spend 10 hours diving deep with Jared Spool, to explore how to make Agile and UX work together flawlessly.
You’ll attend the session times that works best for you and your team: 2pm ET (18.00 GMT) or 7pm ET (23.00 GMT)?
At 2pm each day, Jared Spool will introduce that day’s topic in a live discussion.
At 7pm, we’ll host a Watch Party, and Jared will follow with a live Q&A.
Here’s the topic for each day:
Don’t miss these Bonus Sessions:
Scaling User Research: A Q&A with Fidelity’s Jen Cardello - Tuesday, July 27
Each session builds on the next. So don’t miss a moment . (We’ll post recordings shortly after each session, but your best bet is to catch it live.)