Agile in Wonderland: Designing for an agile client with an offsite UX team

Agile development is fast and lean and requires a close knit team of people working and collaborating day to day and hour to hour. We’d like to talk about our approach as an external UX team needing to integrate closely with a client and their agile development team.

Let’s be honest, we have a cool office and a great working environment at Boomworks so the last thing we want to do is work at the client site. We also think it is an important requirement to create space and time to craft design solutions that meet client and user needs.

In our talk we’ll demonstrate how we retain our working space and how we synchronise and integrate our team into the agile development team without having to camp out on their doorstep bathed in fluorescent lighting. The best way to learn and grow for us has been through trial and error.

Through the looking glass

We’re putting this talk together for people on both sides of the fence – we want to help deconstruct the barriers between external UX and internal agile development teams. You can have your cake and eat it too.

We’ll do this by sharing our experience on projects where we have succeeded and failed at integrating with an agile development team. We’re picking up speed and our latest ongoing project has many stories to share.

We’ll be covering the basics of how we resolve big issues early, participate in team activities, collaborate on story creation and inform the client team with an iterative and speedy user feedback loop. We’ll talk about our ideas for future improvements and how we hope to improve our UX agility, internally and externally.

Drink me

There’s really no point if the audience can’t have an easy takeaway from a talk so we’ll be presenting easy to digest chunks of information through the use of infographics and checklists that describe and guide our day-to-day experiences.

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