1. Agile and Side Competencies:
Content, UX, Design
Sophie Freiermuth
Baguette UX
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2. Premises of Agile
• Make work in progress visible
• Release regularly shippable chunks
• Collaborate
• Produce quality
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3. To Sprint Zero, or not?
Requirements
Epics
Scoping
User
storiesPlanning
session
Developement
Test
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4. Collaboration
• Communication
• Discussions
• Relationships
• Rapport
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5. The Team
• Self-sufficient
• Self-organised
• Fully dedicated PO
• Up to 12
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6. The space
• Large enough
• Flexible
• Self-sufficient
• 3 walls only
• Mix of desks and meeting space
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7. The Kanban board
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8. The walls
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9. Lower the definition
• Release > test > iterate
• DONE
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10. Fire fighting avoidance
• Technical knowledge
• Ask
• Is it faster?
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11. The PAD way
Sit all together, get up and talk to people, sketch
what you want
UE doc: functional annotations on screengrabs
“show and discuss” with the Business on an ad-
hoc basis
Re-estimate work and incorporate desired change
if do-able
The retrospective
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12. Lean
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13. Recommended read
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14. Side Competencies and Agile
• Some problems should not arrive
unresolved in the dev room
• Case by case
• Apply top skills first
• The rise of the unicorns
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