11 to 13 May 2011
Lisbon, Portugal
Lisbon, Portugal
He left advertising in 2009 and returned to investment banking to set up a User Experience practice within Lab49. There, he is responsible for a team of Interaction Designers, Creatives and IAs. Work is exciting and demanding – defining and designing trading application interfaces where '1' frequently means '1 million'. Whilst he prefers to think of his role as an "Architect of Interaction and Information", he has settled for "User Experience" as less confusing. More at blog.found.me.uk.
Over the last 2 years I've been challenged with establishing a UX practice within an agile software consultancy that specialises in Investment Banking. Having tried various tactics, and made some mistakes, I'm going to share some of what I've learned, some war stories and some of what I plan to try next.
Ultimately, you should walk away with some idea of why micro-waterfalls are bad, how to road mapping features and some thoughts around the challenge of trying to define "good enough" up front. This is just another part of gaining some ideas as to how you can work better with (or ideally, as part of) an agile software development team.
