Agile User Experience Design Emergent Practices
Tue, 2009-03-03 06:57 — Jeff Patton 
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Level: Introductory
Over the last several years, innovative UX practitioners working in agile environments have improvised and invented ways to include effective user experience practice inside agile projects. This short talk describes many common emergent agile-ux practices. Some of these practices are lighter weight versions of traditional techniques, while others are new inventions combining the best of UX rigor with a collaborative and pragmatic twist. As a participant, you’ll leave with a buffet of useful UX techniques to add to or adapt your agile process.
Process/Mechanics
Challenges of common agile practice
- Presenter describes common agile process and challenges for UX participants
- Workshop participants annotate the model with their own comments and experiences (20 min)
Emergent agile UX practice
- Presenter describes 12 common practices observed in agile teams with effective UX participation - these practices are documented here: http://www.agileproductdesign.com/blog/emergingbestagileuxpractice.html
- Workshop participants contribute their examples of these practices (30 minutes)
- Workshop participants identify new practices they’ve observed (5-10 minutes silent brainstorming)
- Workshop participants synthesize and organize their ideas to identify common patterns (10 minutes)
- Participants discuss emergent practices lead by workshop presenter. (30-40 minutes)
Outcome will be written and posted to www.agileproductdesign.com to be shared publicly.
Learning outcomes
- Understand the challenges to using effective UX practice in agile projects
- Learn the common practices that have emerged over time
- Add to the body of common practice by sharing your own examples
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