Conversation, Cadence & CultureRecipes to inspire collaborative teams

Lane Halley@thinknowlane@carbonfive.com

Courtney Hemphill@chemphillcourtney@carbonfive.com

AgendaToday you will learn how to:

•Stimulate necessary conversations between team members

•Advance with a shared vision and

•Maintain a culture of invested team members

Throughout the lifecycle of your product

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What are the qualities of happy productive teams?

Good work comes from good teams

Trust Ownership

Creativity

Empathy

Fun

EmpowermentFlow

Communication

Productivity

CultureOur work at Carbon Five

Carbon Five

Design + Agile + Lean Startup

Design Thinkingempathy, creativity and rationality

Agile Developmentself-organizing teams, quality code, iterative & incremental delivery

Lean Startupproducts people want, learning experiments

Product Owner

Developer

Designer

Project room

ConversationRecipes to unlock creativity and collaboration

Recipes for conversationQuestion

What’s the vision?

What might we do?

How will it look and behave?

Recipe

Opportunity Statement, Persona 4x4, Project Brief

Six-ups, Scenarios

Thumbnails, Wireframe Walkthrough

Recipes for conversationQuestion

Where do we start?

How do we build it?

Does it work?

Recipe

Define MVPs & Experiments

User Stories

Five on Friday

Recipes are not a process

Use whatever helps your team:

•Focus on a shared goal

•Minimize handoffs

•Have the right conversations

Let’s see how this works!

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opportunity statementpersona 4x4six ups

Create a shared vision

Opportunity statement

Problem: Custom bike shoppers find it difficult to learn about, configure and purchase bikes.

Solution: A Web application that lets custom bike shoppers explore different components, envision different combinations and understand price.

Demo: bike riders

persona 4x4

Try it!

Six-upsBased on the opportunity statement, what could we create for Peter?

What could we create?

Problem: Peter finds it difficult to learn about, configure and purchase a new commuter bike.

Solution: A Web application that lets Peter explore different components, envision different combinations and understand price.

Show and tell (six-ups)

demo: six-up conversation

six-up

dot votingproject brief

Define an MVP

Try it!

Dot votingBased on the conversation you observed, where are areas of risk & opportunity?

Where’s your dot?

six-up

demo: MVP conversation

dot voting

last updated

opportunity

persona(s)

scenarios

metrics

project brief

scenarioUI elements and layoutsthumbnailsliving style guides & visual assets

Just in time design

ScenarioPeter explores bike profiles

Sees info about what he can do here

Sees multiple bike images w/ basic info & price

Uses controls to pan through them

Chooses a bike to see in more detail

Peter sees the bike he picked

Sees large image of bike he chose

Sees list of parts with info and prices

Sees the total price

etc...

demo: scenario conversation

Scenario [element names]Peter explores bike profiles on the CHOOSE BIKE PAGE

Sees info about what he can do here [Content box]

Sees multiple bike images w/ basic info & price [Carousel]

Uses controls to pan through them [Carousel]

Chooses a bike to see in more detail [Carousel]

Peter sees the bike he picked on the CONFIGURE BIKE PAGE

Sees large image of bike he chose [Bike config picture]

Sees list of parts with info and prices [Bike config list]

Sees the total price [Bike config list]

etc...

Header

Talk to us

Marketing message(s)

Bike images

Bike config picture

Bike config list

Footer

UI elements

demo: device support

page layouts

thumbnails

Living style guide & visual assets

wireframe walkthroughuser stories

Define an experiment

demo: wirefame walkthrough

Try it!

1-week experimentWhat can we build and validate in the first week?

Try it!

User storyAs a.... I want to...so that...

Acceptance criteria?

user stories

CadenceEstablishing your continuous, iterative cycles

How much time?

project startkickoff - 2 days to 2 weeks

regular cadenceMonday - reflect & defineTuesday - specifyWednesday & Thursday - build & refineFriday - customer feedback

How can you use these recipes on your projects?

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Thank you!

Carbon FiveLean UX & Agile Development for Weband mobile products

www.carbonfive.com