Lean UX - An Overview [Half-Day]

In this highly interactive workshop you will learn the basics of Lean/UX, taking a hands-on approach to incorporating UX directly into your development process.  

Using a sample product idea, you will experience

  • Identifying the product hypothesis and underlying assumptions
  • Describe a number of ways to test and validate assumptions
  • Building personas and prioritizing them
  • Defining the real MVP 
  • Build a lowfi prototype to share with potential customers

Speaker

Shane Hastie

Global Delivery Lead for SoftEd and Lead Editor for Culture & Methods at InfoQ.com

Shane leads the Culture and Methods editorial team for InfoQ.com where he hosts the weekly InfoQ Culture Podcast. He is the Global Delivery Lead for SoftEd.  

Over the last 30+ years Shane has been a practitioner and leader of developers, testers, trainers, project managers and business analysts, helping teams to deliver results that align with overall business objectives. He has worked with large and small organisations, from individual teams to large transformations all around the world. He draws on over 3 decades of practical experience across all levels of Information Technology and software intensive product development. Shane was a director of the Agile Alliance from 2011 to 2016 and was the founding Chair of Agile Alliance New Zealand. Shane is an ICF registered Professional Coach. 

“I firmly believe that humanistic way of working and the agile mindset are desperately needed in organisations all around the globe today. Taking agile values and principles beyond software is important and making sure they are properly embedded is absolutely crucial for success – we’re in an industry that touches every aspect of people’s lives and massively influences society as a whole and I want to be a part of making sure that industry is both ethical and sustainable.”

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Date

Thursday Oct 27 / 09:00AM PDT ( 3 hours )

Location

Seacliff D

Level

Level beginner to intermediate

Topics

UX

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Prerequisites

None