Articles of Note
“I would like to introduce you to someone. She’s someone you may know. She may be someone in your scrum team. She may be one of many or she may be the only one in the company. This is a story about the challenges she faces and how we can help her do her best work.”
“Part-time work exacerbates the need for good capacity estimation and up-front planning while reducing the time available for it. Fortunately, Agile’s notion of story points applies well. Story points estimate effort rather than time and thus stay constantly effective between full-time and part-time workers, though of course part-time workers will take longer to achieve the same amount of story points, which you can account for by measuring the team’s velocity.”
by Leisa Reichelt (@leisa)
“Allowing and encouraging teammates to participate in research analysis gives them an opportunity to get much closer to more of the data, but it also helps them to understand the way that we process that data in order to make sense of it and draw conclusions. It allows them to challenge the ways we are forming narratives about what we believe that data means and demonstrates the traceability of those claims back to the original source data.”
by Jeff Gothelf (@jboogie)
“If you have many hypotheses, how do you decide where your precious discovery hours should be spent? Which hypotheses should be tested? Which ones should be de-prioritised or just thrown away? To help answer this question I’ve put together the Hypothesis Prioritisation Canvas. This relatively simple tool and a companion to the Lean UX Canvas can help facilitate an objective conversation with your team and stakeholders to determine which hypotheses will get your attention and which won’t.”
by Ane Sharma (@ellasdatter)
“I try to get everyone in the team to tag along, observe or facilitate research sessions. Journalists working on our app Peil frequently moderate usability tests, and we collaborate on the analysis of these. However, there is still one part of the research process that too often falls to the researcher alone: the analysis of in-depth interviews. And why shouldn’t everyone be involved in this as well?”
Worth Another Read
“Several emergent themes in software design and development are converging into a new way of working: 1) Entrepreneurs understand the strategic value of user experience design in the guise of Steve Blank’s customer development and Eric Ries’ lean startup. 2) Management are entrusting designers with product management responsibilities as frustrated designers are seeking them out. 3) Agile teams are coming to recognize the contribution of UX as designers learn to function in agile environments”
Something for You To Watch
(C Todd Lombardo, 25m)
“In this keynote from MTPCon London, C. Todd Lombardo reminds us that as product managers we often make bad decisions. The key to minimising these, he says, is effective product research.”
Conference Redux
There were some really interesting sessions at Pattern Days 2019 this year. We think you’ll find these of particular interest:
If you liked those do check out the videos of the other sessions.
Upcoming Events
Mind the Product Engage, 7 February, Manchester
Product Con, 11 February, London
Leading Design, 4-6 March, San Francisco
Design Research, 18-20 March, Melbourne
Agile-Lean Ireland, 20-21 April, Dublin
Agile Manchester, 13-15 May, Manchester
ACE! 20-22 May, Kraków
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