How to Integrate UX and Agile
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The document discusses integrating user experience (UX) design into agile development processes. It describes four common approaches: big upfront design, just-in-time design, design spikes, and sprint pairs. The sprint pairs approach has designers work one sprint ahead of developers. The document also discusses tailoring agile projects for UX work, creating UX release plans and roadmaps, conducting user research, and establishing a usability backlog to track and prioritize issues. Seven keys to success with integrating UX and agile are outlined.
How to Integrate UX and Agile
- 1. How to Integrate UX and Agile Dean Barker Sr. Director, Optum Technology Engineering
- 2. Dean T. Barker Sr. Director of User Experience Optum Speaker Alfonso de la Nuez Co-Founder and Co-CEO UserZoom Moderator Speakers
- 3. Quick Housekeeping • Chat box is available if you have any questions • There will be time for Q&A at the end • We will be recording the webinar for future viewing • All attendees will receive a copy of the slides/recording • Twitter hashtag: #uzwebinar 3
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- 8. Agenda 1. Introduction 2. Four approaches to UX design integration 3. Tailoring agile projects for UX research and design 4. Roadmapping for success
- 9. What is User Experience (UX)? Consumers Producers Productivity Satisfaction Efficient Development
- 10. What is Agile? Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan http://agilemanifesto.org
- 11. Why Agile UX?
- 12. It’s an Agile World
- 13. It’s an Experience Economy Forrester Report October 2010 How To Prepare For The Era Of Experience
- 14. Software Value Flows Through UX Connectivity Intelligence Workflow User Experience Expertise
- 15. Customers Respond to Good UX • 14.4% more willing to purchase • 15.8% fewer will do business with competitors • 16.6% more will recommend you Forrester Report September 2009 Best Practices in User Experience (UX) Design
- 16. Scrum: An Agile Framework
- 17. Working in Development Cycles http://coachingagile.blogspot.com/2010/05/when-do-we-start-when-should-we-finish.html
- 19. All work is a process and all processes can be designed, measured, and improved. Phillip Crosby, Quality Management Guru Even the best professionals need a structured and disciplined environment in which to do cooperative work Watts Humphrey Managing the Software Process
- 20. Scrum Process Elements • Product owner • ScrumMaster • Team Three Roles Four Ceremonies Three Artifacts • Sprint planning • Daily scrum • Sprint reviews • Sprint retrospectives • Product backlog: • Sprint backlog • Product Increment http://www.scrumalliance.org/pages/scrum_101
- 21. Resources and the UX Function • Allocation • Full time • Part Time • Expertise • Professionals • Cross-trained specialists w/other roles • None of the above
- 22. 10% of project budget on user research and usability evaluation Nielsen Norman Group Report Usability Return on Investment 4th Edition 1:4 Ratio Designers to Developers The User Experience Team Kit Paul Sherman, PhD. UXmatters.com 2/22/2010 Rules of Thumb User Experience Work = Research & Design
- 23. UI Developers
- 24. Process Engineering Process Tailoring The “P” Word
- 25. UX Design Process Step One Step Two Step Three Analyze & Organize Create & Elaborate Review & Evaluate • Define, validate, and elaborate requirements and user tasks • Design the UI Architecture UI Analysis Document • Create preliminary screen designs • Review/user test screens • Iterate screen designs • Conduct additional evaluations/iterations as appropriate • Final review for consistency • Update UI Styleguides Navigation Model Wireframes HTML/CSS Styleguide
- 26. Prototypes? Wireframes? Code? Deliverables and Tools
- 27. UX Analysis and Agile Modeling http://www.agilemodeling.com/
- 28. Make a Place for Design •Your resources, roles, and expertise will inform your viable processes •You have to make a place for design •Other factors with team, schedule, and project can impact approach •There are finite options… BUFD JIT Spikes Sprint Pairs
- 29. BUFD Big Upfront Design •Design resources operate in advance of development resources before a release •Requires Product Owner collaboration •Designs may be used for estimating •Works well with Kanban, Lean concepts
- 30. JIT Just In Time •Design done within a Sprint •Typically requires “Stubs” •Requires a lot of collaboration •Usually a fire drill •Necessarily parallel efforts and throw away •Easier to track in Scrum •Works well with mature standards and pattern libraries
- 31. Spikes Design Spikes http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2012/11/06/design-spikes-fit-big-picture-ux-agile-development/
- 32. Sprint Pairs Sprint Pairs •Design works a Sprint ahead of development •Scope is traded off for time box •Requires lots of coordination •Sometimes described as “Scrumerfall” •Respects functional dependencies •Seems to have most traction in industry
- 33. Sprint Pairs Scrum Team Scrum Master Product Owner Developers, Designers, etc. R2S1 Plan R2 Stabilization Plan R2 R1S1 R1S2 R1S3 R1S4 R1S5 R1S6 R1S7 R1S8 Development Workstream UI Design Workstream
- 34. Critical path is handoff of primary designer deliverable to developer Case Study of Customer Input For a Successful Product Proceeding ADC '05 Proceedings of the Agile Development Conference http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1122115 Complex Choreography
- 35. Release Planning
- 36. UX Release Plans •Critical path is a “sprint-focused” UI design workplan •Add Phase 0 work as appropriate and feasible • Include iteration within release •Define UX metrics •Develop usability issues backlog
- 37. Put the “User” in Experience
- 38. Satisfaction Survey End Users, Supervisors/ Managers Provides SUS, NPS Self Reported Quantitative Heuristic Evaluation Expert Evaluation Identifies Usability Concerns Qualitative KLM Study Expert Evaluation Measures Clicks & Keystrokes Quantitative In-Depth Interviews Supervisors / Managers Validate Usability Concerns Self Reported Qualitative Diary Study (Retrospective) End Users Provide Insights Into Workflow Self Reported Qualitative & Quantitative Coding UT & Interview End Users Observe Usability problems Observed Qualitative & Quantitative Intake UT & Interview End Users Observe Usability problems Observed Qualitative & Quantitative Example Research Program
- 39. UX Metrics Programs • Task completion • Time on task • Errors per user task • Requests for help • Click count • SUS • Perceived ease • Satisfaction • Brand salience • % Users Impacted
- 40. Roadmaps
- 41. Release Roadmaps Architecture, POC R1 Arch & Research Alpha Q1 2013 Q2 2013 Q3 2013 Q4 2013 Q1 2014 Q2 2014 POC Core Dev Beta Phase 0 Sprint 1, Day 1
- 42. Value Add UX Activities Architecture, POC Core Dev Alpha Beta R1 Arch & Research Q1 2013 Q2 2013 Q3 2013 Q4 2013 Q1 2014 Q2 2014 POC Sprint-Driven UX Activities Formative/Summative U-Tests Remote U-Tests Iterations Styleguides Design integration Validation metrics Phase 0 UX Activities User research Baseline metrics Groom usability backlog Ideation Concept testing UI Architecture
- 43. UX Release Roadmaps Architecture, POC Core Dev Alpha Beta Q1 2013 Q2 2013 Q3 2013 Q4 2013 Q1 2014 Q2 2014 POC UX Research UI Analysis and High Level Design Detailed UI Design, Refinement, and Validation POC Workshop Baseline KLM Visual Integration Field Research SUS Baseline Usability Task Analysis and Object Model Navigation Model and Page Templates Sprint 1 Pre-designs UI Design, Iteration, Refinement Cloud Integration UI Toolkit Integration Formative Usability Tests Summative Usability Tests R1 Arch & Research
- 44. Usability Backlogs •Usability defects (i.e. problems encountered by users) •Rated by severity •Analyzed by theme •Ranked for business value •Prioritized for remediation • per release
- 45. Evangelize UX Value $1 invested in UX returns $10 to $100 Gilb, Principles of Software Engineering Management A 5% improvement in usability increases revenues from 10-35% Netraker, e-commerce study Usability techniques helped cut development time by 33-50% Bosert, Quality Functional Deployment Usability methods raised user satisfaction ratings by 40% Gartner Group Report
- 46. Seven Keys to Success 1. Assign UX designers to Scrum teams 2. Assign UI developers to Scrum teams 3. Define a tailored process for UX 4. Include Sprint/Phase 0 UX research 5. Influence iteration 6. Create a UX metrics program 7. Manage a Usability defects backlog
Editor's Notes
- #2: www.depositphotos.com
- #10: UX as a term is used two ways: To refer to customer interaction with your products and to refer to a formalized field of design. The experience a customer has when they interact with your product and product ecosystem. A specialized field of design that uses cognitive psychology in combination with engineering principles to design products with a high degree of usability “(Usability is…) the extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use.” ISO 9241-11
- #13: https://www.planbox.com/blog/agile/scrum/research/2013-Study-reveals-Statistics-on-Agile-Market-Share.html 2013 74% (Planbox) 2010 35% (Forrester) 2008 ~20% (Gartner) http://analytical-mind.com/2010/02/25/gartners-the-current-state-of-agile-method-adoption/
- #14: Why do our businesses need us to create and drive UX strategy? Because we are now in the “Experience Economy” The reason UX is important now is because we are in the “Era of Experience” Draw experience boolean flower on whitboard…in software all value flows through a user experience
- #15: To users, the user interface is the product. In a software product, all the value of our core competencies: Intelligence, Connectivity, Workflow, and all our other expertise flows through a user interface “You’re in the user experience business: all the value flows through a user interface.” Jakob Nielsen, PhD
- #16: Business measures comparing companies that provide a “good” versus “bad” user experience… September 4, 2009 Best Practices In User Experience (UX) Design Design Compelling User Experiences To Wow Your Customers by Mike Gualtieri with Harley Manning, Mike Gilpin, John R. Rymer, David D’Silva, and Wallis Yu for Application Development & Program Management Professionals More customers will be willing to purchase. On average, companies that provide a superior experience have 14.4% more customers who are willing to consider them for another purchase than companies in the same industry that offer a poor customer experience. More customers will resist doing business with competitors. Compared with companies that offer a poor experience, companies that offer the best experience in their industries have 15.8% fewer customers who are likely to consider doing business with a competitor. More customers will recommend you. Companies with the highest experience scores have 16.6% more customers who are likely to recommend their products or services compared with their lowest-scoring competitors.
- #17: https://www.scrumalliance.org/why-scrum The Scrum framework in 30 seconds A product owner creates a prioritized wish list called a product backlog. During sprint planning, the team pulls a small chunk from the top of that wish list, a sprint backlog, and decides how to implement those pieces. The team has a certain amount of time — a sprint (usually two to four weeks) — to complete its work, but it meets each day to assess its progress (daily Scrum). Along the way, the ScrumMaster keeps the team focused on its goal. At the end of the sprint, the work should be potentially shippable: ready to hand to a customer, put on a store shelf, or show to a stakeholder. The sprint ends with a sprint review and retrospective. As the next sprint begins, the team chooses another chunk of the product backlog and begins working again.
- #26: Many UX teams have a standard process, but that process isn’t integrated with Scrum and software release plans. You need to proactively plan for each project HOW you are going to take UX practices into the process
- #27: Tools…deliverables…relates directly to process and roles on the team…ETVX…inputs/outputs (gozintas/gozoutas)
- #28: Elaborates and clarifies requirements Explores and tests solutions Informs estimates Provides for cross functional collaboration
- #36: Plan properly…A proper UX plan is not just about sprints…release level, includes Phase 0, includes usability engineering in addition to design, includes metrics, and is part of a roadmap…Phase 0 and release planning…UIA…iteration… Make a place for usability engineering and user research…put the U in user interface……metrics….Beyond phase 0….roadmap
- #41: With resources in place, release plans, metrics, and usability backlogs you can develop roadmaps and objectively measure and improve the product UX over time as you design and develop new features. This is the goal of strategic UX planning.
- #47: Keys Get a seat at the table Integrate design process into SDLC Ensure UX best practices and metrics are infused throughout all planning levels: roadmap, release, sprints. Secure UX resources/roles Agile values people over process. Get UX design and UI dev on to Scrum teams. They do “Sprint-level” work. Right level of support Strongly recommend UI dev and report to UX Release planning is the precondition for success. Roadmap is the key release planning artifact. Have high level UX activities in project release plan Create and maintain more detailed UX roadmap (1+ releases) Get UX research into Release plan Phase or Sprint 0. Align with Arch and Prod Mgt Tailor the process and plan to support UX design and UI dev (4 approaches or other) Force iteration. Companies get incremental but not iteration. Metrics Usability backlog Become an Agile expert, community of practice Garbage in, Garbage out….story writing… Align UX analysis with Agile Modeling Cross train Reuse (patterns standards, components) Consider SAFe Evangelize