Category: Lean UX
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Democratize creativity
In the industrial-era model of managing a company creativity was reserved for the executive suite. Only leaders and managers were…
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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…
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Turn Left!
Change is hard and often scary. Change in the enterprise is even scarier because it involves changing the way…
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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…
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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…
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Purity vs. Pragmatism
“That’s not Agile!” “We’re not being lean enough.” “We’re not supposed to make deliverables!” Sound familiar?…
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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…