ux runway how to ensure teams take off and land...

UX Runway – How to ensure teams

take off and land successfully

By Natalie Warnert

AGENDA

About Natalie

What is UX?

UX’s place in Scrum

Preparing UX and Scrum teams

Integrating UX with Scrum

Inspecting and adapting

Natalie Warnert

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CSM, PSM I

Six Sigma Yellow Belt

ScrumMaster

Thomson Reuters – Legal UX

Travelers Insurance

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What is UX?

How a person interacts with a system

Flow

Perception

Accessibility

Ease of use

Understanding

Roles on UX team

User Researchers

Information Architects

Visual Designers

CSS Developers

Accessibility

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UX’s Place in Scrum

UX as individual Scrum team – Centralized UX team

UX as part of a Scrum team – Decentralized UX

Work with Product Owner to make wireframes and

designs

Write stories and tasks

Acceptance criteria

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How can all work be completed in one

Sprint?

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UX Runway

Sprinting ahead but on same cadence

Just in time design

Just enough detail provided for Scrum team to start

Planned room for UX changes in current iteration

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UX Runway

3

(current sprint)

4 5

6

Development on

feature W

Feature X

Feature Y

Feature Z

UX – Information

Architects & Visual Design

Product Owner

User Research

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Scrum Team(s)/

CSS Accessibility

How does it actually work?

Backlog grooming – dependencies are identified

UX backlog is developed, sized, and planned

Working sessions with Product Owners

Internal reviews for collaboration

Demos with Scrum teams

“Finished” UX work items help to drive work,

collaboration, and identify gaps

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Sprint 0 and project kick-off

Runway is a bit longer – not just in time

Infrastructure and backend work

High level documentation

Drive the vision

Business case

Determine priority of features/epics

Larger releases follow same principles

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Inspect and Adapt

Retrospectives with Scrum teams and UX

Make necessary modifications

Team interaction

Meetings and demos

Timing of feature delivery

Definition of Ready & Definition of Done

It’s not one size fits all

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Thank you!

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Questions?