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Agile Development, Lean UX

Agile Development: It works. It creates reliable software quickly, efficiently and predictably, fosters a sustainable pace, and keeps the cost of change constant. But it's silent on design. Lean UX brings lightweight methods to design, helping to mesh design and development into one lightweight process, responsive to change, and tuned to deliver products customers will actually use and pay for. No matter how great the code is, it's not great software unless someone cares to use it.

This talk explains how agile development is done at scale, and draws on Ian's experience at Pivotal Labs, and now at Digital Garage. It also emphasizes the criticality of good design, and how to integrate the two, and why both agile development and Lean UX aren't just 'nice to have', but instead are economic necessities.

Speaker - Ian McFarland

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Ian was working on worldwide distributed hypertext systems with Ted Nelson a couple years before Tim Berners-Lee proposed the World Wide Web, HTTP, and HTML. He was on the launch team at HotWired, the first company to bring a revenue model to the Internet. (Banner ads. Yes, we still use them. 468x60 for evar!) He was employee #4 at Friendster, the company that kicked off this whole Social Media thing. And for the seven years Ian was at Pivotal Labs, he's been sharing insights into agile development with companies large and small, and as VP of Technology helped to grow Pivotal Labs from a small company to a world renowned team of over 100 developers. Since Joining Digital Garage at its CTO in August, he's taken these ideas back to Japan, the country where both Lean and Ruby come from. He is more likely to be found in San Francisco than any other city, though your odds are probably about 50/50.

 


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