On Quora, Jared Spool asked the question “What’s the difference between Agile Development & Lean UX?” There are a number of interesting responses. Here is mine: Agile dev and UX already focuses on rapid cycle times, constant collaboration, staying user-focused and continuous delivery of valuable software. Unfortunately too often, the definition of valuable gets muddied (or worse, is abdicated altogether …
The 4th State of Agile (and seeing Eric Ries in Sydney)
In mid-February I and the family flew down to Sydney to see my in-laws, and I was happy to overlap with Eric Ries at the Sydney Lean Startup Circle. Eric delivered a great talk, but I gave him a hard time afterward because he spent a chunk of time on continuous deployment. I consider that to be low priority compared …