How Agile Teams Can Prioritize UX Work

Incorporating UX work into an Agile environment is a challenge. With rapid turnaround times and an ever-growing to-do list, it can be difficult to identify which items should be addressed first in your process. Learning how to prioritize your work is key to staying afloat.

In this seminar, you will learn...

• prioritization methods designed to put focus on building the right things and removing emotion and personal attacks from backlog discussions
• techniques to help manage all the moving pieces in your process, from user research, design, usability testing, meetings, and team collaboration
• how to get more done in the same amount of time by minimizing disagreements on priorities and maximizing productive work time

Topics Covered

• How UX fits in an Agile environment
• Prioritization matrices
  • Benefits
  • Practical uses
  • How to facilitate
• Backlog organization
  • One team backlog vs. separate backlogs (UX, dev)
  • Tracking future work and UX debt
  • Advocating for users
• Creating a sprint calendar that works for you
  • How to maximize your productive work time
  • Juggling UX work and Agile-related ceremonies
  • How to manage UX work on multiple teams