I built a research repository in Jira and wanted to get my process down in writing for those in the same boat I was in: weighing the pros and cons of Jira without a guide. This article is part two. For part one describing the pros and cons go here. Jira was not intended for […]
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Is the Waterfall method washing away your carefully crafted designs? Bring new Agile patterns to Design and Discovery with the No Handoff method. Though software development has embraced Agile, far too many of us still encounter waterfall or waterfall-adjacent processes in our design work. In the waterfall process we carefully think about and craft a […]
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When George Bernard Shaw wrote “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place” he could have been talking to anyone working in UX or design. Communicating goals and ideas to a diverse team is hard. We communicate across the fields of development, security, management, marketing, design and UX, the […]
The existence of the design sprint is interesting because it directly speaks to the challenges we face integrating design into our teams and projects. Much has been written about whether the design sprint is a true sprint (nope, but who cares [1]) but less has been said about why they exist in the first place, […]
Prototyping is at the heart of No Handoff. Following is a quick primer on how a prototype sets the stage for eliminating unnecessary handoff. Not everyone can understand a technical spec sheet or can translate a vision statement into actionable items; everyone understands a website. Prototyping from the earliest stages of a project makes communication […]
If you work in web development chances are you are using some form of agile. A current trend is the “Sprint 0”. What is it? Why has it stuck around? And why does it offer so little value to the agile project? Sprint 0 is often what the period before diving into the iterative agile […]
As a UX manager I have found one of the stickiest challenges I face is fully integrating design and development teams. The pace of each discipline is different, so is their vocabulary, the information that drives their work, and their intermediate goals. I developed the no-handoff agile method to address these challenges, and one of […]
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In the no-handoff approach all disciplines revolve around improving the end user experience. They work together from day 1 to day infinity, with no handoff periods in between. To achieve the mental shifts required and promote fuller team integration I take three simple steps – a shared vocabulary, shared goals, and a shared primary communication […]
While agile broke down barriers between development processes and business goals, the handoff between Product and Engineering teams still persists. Ahh… Project handoff. That universally hated period of inefficiency and frustration, throwing your work over the fence hoping there is someone on the other side to catch it. Imagine a project where teams work together […]
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Banish the word “design” from your web vocabulary and reap the rewards! […]