Discovery Kanban 101: How to Integrate User-Centered Design with Agile (Skillshare)

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Discovery Kanban 101: How to Integrate User-Centered Design with Agile (Skillshare)

Learn how to make space for designers and researchers to do user-centered design in an Agile/scrum engineering environment. By creating an explicit Discovery process to focus on customer needs before committing engineers to shipping code, you will unlock design’s potential to deliver great user experiences to your customers.

By the end of this class, you will have built a Discovery Kanban board and learned how to use it to plan and manage the work of your team.
Want help using this process at your company? Hit me up.
Prior knowledge of user-centered design will help you understand and apply the concepts in this course. You don’t need any formal authority at your company, such as by managing people, to implement the ideas in this course. You just need the desire to affect change.
In this class you'll build a kanban board to track the Discovery work that design and research is doing. The kanban board is made up of columns to represent each phase of the work, and acceptance criteria that defines what each column means and what criteria must be met for work to move into each column.
You'll also learn how to run a Discovery Planning Meeting to use the board to keep your team aligned and make prioritization decisions.

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