Category: Lean UX

  • Do you really have executive buy-in?

    Seven years ago I moved back to the East Coast and took a job at an agency. Before accepting my…

  • I have no idea what I’m doing

    The difference between successful teams and leaders and those less so boils down to humility. Specifically, it’s being humble enough…

  • Quantity trumps quality (at first)

    I found the following excerpt on Derek Siver’s blog. It’s from a book called Art and Fear: The ceramics teacher…

  • Democratize creativity

    In the industrial-era model of managing a company creativity was reserved for the executive suite. Only leaders and managers were…

  • Agile coaches, I am your friend

    I spend a lot of time consulting with large organizations grappling with making Agile work as an engineering practice and…

  • Turn Left!

      Change is hard and often scary. Change in the enterprise is even scarier because it involves changing the way…

  • Designers — an untapped pool of Agile leadership

    Implementing an agile product development process has many challenges. One that is not regularly addressed is who will lead each…

  • The answer to the Agile-UX question

    Making user experience and design work in an Agile environment is one of the biggest challenges facing product development teams…

  • Purity vs. Pragmatism

      “That’s not Agile!”   “We’re not being lean enough.”   “We’re not supposed to make deliverables!”   Sound familiar?…

  • 7 things I learned at Lean Day: West

    Earlier this week we put on Lean Day: West in Portland, OR. The goal of the conference was to bring…