Team Alignment Canvas
The Team Alignment Canvas (V1.1) is a tool to help individuals or teams get on the same page about the nature of the engagement at the outset of a project. I created this canvas based on lessons learned from 12 years of leading external agency teams through many collaborations on software products with internal teams…
Aligning Teams with Choreography – Sketchnotes
Last month I opened day three at Enterprise Experience 2020, #EX2020 – My talk was about Aligning Teams with Choreography. It was visually captured so beautifully and with do much detail by the talented MJ Broadbent.
Pace Yourself! Continuous Design in Agile
“Your job isn’t to build more software faster: it’s to maximize the outcome and impact you get from what you choose to build”. — Jeff Patton. Surviving the agile landscape I have worked on dozens of projects using agile methods with great results. Agile is empowering business and product teams alike, during MVE (most valuable…
The Magic of Facilitation
In the dynamic world of business, product and service design, workshops are materialising as an unexpected game-changing ingredient in agile and lean workflows.
Uncorking Product Bottlenecks
Product release stagnation Have you and your team been iterating on the same product version for too long? Is your next release date an unknown? Is your continuous delivery constantly late? If so, it’s time to pitstop and take stock. You need to intervene before your “shipping fear” or “release anxiety” sets in. There are…
Getting started with ResearchOps
Research roles are starting to pop up on product teams everywhere. There is a lot more to researching than meets the eye but often there are not enough people to do the research right, or there is one person tasked with doing everything research related – which can be challenging! How can research practitioners successfully…
A Framework for UX and Product Design
Over the past 10 years we have witnessed the exponential growth, rapid standardisation and subsequent settling down of User Experience (UX) as a discipline. As UX practitioners, our laundry list of considerations has also scaled up considerably. We are challenged to think about product vision, the business model, value proposition, market segmentation and pain validation.…
10 Tips to Improve UX of Your Product
Technology is taking over our lives. Every day we are exposed to a digital landscape that underpins our real world journeys, choice and decisions. Our homes are becoming smarter, mobile devices keep us connected wherever we go. Work can be extended beyond the nine to five due to an evolution in technology that seems to…
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Séamus Byrne 