Course Overview

Many development teams are adopting Agile techniques, but teams typically don’t know how to effectively incorporate user-centered design and UX best practices into the process. This course provides practical insight, whether you are running pure Agile, “scrumfall” or something similar. Our instructors have been doing user experience design and user testing as part of Agile and Agile-like teams for more than a decade.

Audience: Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Product Managers, Business Analysts, Technical Team Leads, Project Managers, Program Managers, Developers, Interaction Designers, Information Architects, Usability Specialists, User Researchers, Executive Management with oversight responsibility, and anyone interested in incorporating user-centered practices into an Agile development process.

Course length: 1 day or 2 days

Course Highlights (customizable)

• Why we love Agile (yes, really)
• Dangers of Agile for UX
• Dangers of UX for Agile
• Development lifecycle and UX activities
• How to keep an eye on the Big Picture
• Techniques for ensuring consistent navigation and interactions
• The importance of interaction design patterns
• User research and user testing techniques in an Agile world
• How to track and prioritize UX-related backlog items
• Prototyping and user testing for complex applications and sites
• New methods for communicating design concepts
• Reviews of examples suggested by participants during class
• Interactive exercises
• Q&A