This document summarizes the evolution of a UX process at a company called Ezypay & iconnect360 as their products and customer base grew exponentially. Initially the UX process involved gathering requirements and validating prototypes internally. Over time, they adapted Lean UX principles like conducting user research with personas, focus groups, and testing to inform design. The role of designers changed to facilitators who empowered cross-functional teams. The process was flexed based on risk, with the goal of designing solutions that met outcomes without unnecessary iterations. Through pragmatic application of Lean UX, the process evolved to focus collaboratively on user needs, business goals, and avoiding future work.
Buying enterprise software isn't easy. In fact, it's just as complicated as global sourcing, if not more so (and that's why IT professionals make great global sourcing professionals, as noted in a recent article from Global Services). You're buying something that's immaterial and, these days, ephemeral, but just as costly once all the "hidden" costs are taken into account.
What's worse, a mistake can cost you many times the initial purchase price. Accidentally spot buy 10,000 parts incompatible with your current assembly? You sell them at a 10% loss, take a one time hit, learn your lesson, and move on. Move too quickly on that new, on-premise, e-Sourcing platform to take advantage of that limited time "special discount" and lock in a five year term on a platform that is thoroughly incompatible with your ERP? There's an additional seven to eight figures, up front, of custom integration work plus significant third party maintenance each year to keep the middleware running each time you patch your ERP or your new e-Sourcing platform and "break" the custom middleware.
Thus, when it comes to enterprise software, you need to be prepared. This presentation, which summarizes the 8-part Sourcing Innovation Series on Buying Enterprise Software, walks you through each step of the process and points out what you need to watch out for when making an enterprise software purchase.
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Rudy is graduated from non-IT/ non-Computer Science degree but start his debut as a Junior Web Designer at his own almamater, Brawijaya University - Malang with two silver bullet, Front Page and Photoshop Skill :) .
Ever work for various company scale, from startup to enterprise, even freelancing. Now, working as an Agent of Happyness (read: Scrum Master) in XL Axiata. He is very excited to have awesome team, both business and developer team, together build better software development environment, in Agile way. And the team looks so happy to nurture their 'baby scrum' now.
Also, he is actively going to Agile and Scrum event, meetup, congress, lean coffee, and also organize some scrum event in Jakarta. Means, still learn!
***
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Buying enterprise software isn't easy. In fact, it's just as complicated as global sourcing, if not more so (and that's why IT professionals make great global sourcing professionals, as noted in a recent article from Global Services). You're buying something that's immaterial and, these days, ephemeral, but just as costly once all the "hidden" costs are taken into account.
What's worse, a mistake can cost you many times the initial purchase price. Accidentally spot buy 10,000 parts incompatible with your current assembly? You sell them at a 10% loss, take a one time hit, learn your lesson, and move on. Move too quickly on that new, on-premise, e-Sourcing platform to take advantage of that limited time "special discount" and lock in a five year term on a platform that is thoroughly incompatible with your ERP? There's an additional seven to eight figures, up front, of custom integration work plus significant third party maintenance each year to keep the middleware running each time you patch your ERP or your new e-Sourcing platform and "break" the custom middleware.
Thus, when it comes to enterprise software, you need to be prepared. This presentation, which summarizes the 8-part Sourcing Innovation Series on Buying Enterprise Software, walks you through each step of the process and points out what you need to watch out for when making an enterprise software purchase.
158 - Product Management for Enterprise-Grade platforms ProductCamp Boston
ProductCamp Boston is the world's largest and most exciting crowd-sourced one-day event for product people. It's organized by and for product managers, product marketers and entrepreneurs, so attendees get the most out of the day.
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www.ProductCampBoston.org
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How to collect internal and external feedback from customers and stakeholders to inform product management decisions.
Presentation from Denver Startup Week - 2015
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How to make lean a part of your startup DNA? This is from a workshop I conducted for the Startup Leadership Program's Bangalore-2018 cohort. A jist of my experience with the lean framework, how to overcome challenges in running lean and how to make it a part of how you do stuff at your startup.
"How Scrum Motivates People" by Rudy Rahadian (XL Axiata)Tech in Asia ID
Rudy is graduated from non-IT/ non-Computer Science degree but start his debut as a Junior Web Designer at his own almamater, Brawijaya University - Malang with two silver bullet, Front Page and Photoshop Skill :) .
Ever work for various company scale, from startup to enterprise, even freelancing. Now, working as an Agent of Happyness (read: Scrum Master) in XL Axiata. He is very excited to have awesome team, both business and developer team, together build better software development environment, in Agile way. And the team looks so happy to nurture their 'baby scrum' now.
Also, he is actively going to Agile and Scrum event, meetup, congress, lean coffee, and also organize some scrum event in Jakarta. Means, still learn!
***
This slide was shared at Tech in Asia Product Development Conference 2017 (PDC'17) on 9-10 August 2017.
Get more insightful updates from TIA by subscribing techin.asia/updateselalu
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- What are the biggest challenges to a non-technical founder?
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- Useful tips on how to build a SaaS product in 6 simple steps
Check out the report and make sure to eliminate common mistakes that can hurt your business. Are you a non-technical founder? Don’t worry!
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You can view or listen to a recording of the webinar at http://grandview.rymatech.com/pmv/webinars/2009/09/kano-analysis.php
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Applying lean ux in designing enterprise software from ground up
1. Applying Lean UX in designing
enterprise software from ground up
Kok Chiann
UX Manager, Ezypay & iconnect360
2.
3. I’m here to share about our learnings
Around evolution
4.
5. How our UX process evolved
Introduction
Infancy
Exponential
growth
Alongside our product growth, and how Lean UX principles
served as an enabler
Just do it
Growing
User
Research
Laser
focus on
outcomes
7. Before release
It’s all breezy. The primary target market of the
product is gyms.
Introduction
Infancy
Exponential
growth
- Scoping issues
- Endless iterations
- Delayed releases
- Priorities changing
But there were
problems
8. The UX process during then
Gather requirements
from stakeholders
User stories from
product backlog
Prototype Requirements Internal
validation
Things were going along. Kind of a Kanban approach.
10. iconnect360 was newly rolled out
Our customer base was growing steadily.
Progression towards targeting new market –
Swimschools
- Uncertainty around new target
market’s needs
- Lack of user or customer data to
inform decisions
- Customer impact on changes
- Priorities changing
But there were
also problems
Introduction
Infancy
Exponential
growth
12. User research became critical
We’re based in KL,
target customers
are in Australia
?
We don’t
know our
users
personally
We need the
right users to get
the right data
But….
13.
14. User research practices implemented
within UX process to inform design
Focus groups
(We call them
industry panel)
Guerilla/discount
user testing
Personas
15. Refining our practices around Conceptualisation &
Prototyping
• Sketch and firm the concept first
• Designing hi-fidelity prototypes with realistic data to validate
designs
• Switched to using Invision for prototyping
- Front-end
engineer
required
- Takes days
- UX designers
can do it
- Takes hours
16. Lean UX principles adapted into the UX process
Just the ones around user/customer validation.
Gather requirements
from stakeholders
User stories from
product backlog
Prototype Internal Requirements
validation
User research data
(Personas, User
stories, Pain points,
etc)
External
validation
Concept
18. Case Study: Feature request to delete a member
Many support
requests
Manual work by
technical
support needed
Feature got
prioritised
In our site visits, one of
the clients brought
this up
“I’ll need to be able to
delete a member”
When enquired
further…
“Actually I want
debtors that I cannot
recover removed from
the report.”
After digging further,
it led us to a
completely different
solution
19. Our product fared pretty well
And we got on-board more and more clients
20. Our growth was exponential
Rolling out to NZ, 6 countries in Asia & new
target market of Swimschools. Process
improved towards monthly release cycles for
both products.
- UX bottlenecked
- Coping with monthly releases
- Paying technical debt
- Endless feature requests
- Endless documentation work
- Priorities changing
More problems
Introduction
Infancy
Exponential
growth
22. A laser focus on outcomes was necessary
We needed to work smarter and focus on the top priorities constantly
User needs
Design goal
Business goals Technology
23. Empowering execution teams
• Cross functional teams
• Democratising creativity &
decision making
• Sense of ownership
• Skills brought to table
• Collaborate towards the best
outcome
Engineer Engineer
Tester UX designer
24. The changing role of the designer
Facilitator
Customer
Advocate
Designer
"When you look at design as a process and
not an artifact, everyone on your team
becomes a designer.“
Cap Watkins, “Should Engineers Design?"
25. Flexing the process
Prototype
Internal
validation
Concept
Internal Requirements
validation
Concept
Concept
E.g.: Improvising for low-risk, low uncertainty features.
Requirements
26. “Okay” solutions are okay
• Designing for the
best/great
experience is not
always necessary,
nor possible
• Not all solutions
are born equal
• Design towards
the best trade-off
to enable
outcomes
Kano model
27. Avoid further iterations (if possible)
• Designs that work
would not need to
be iterated further
• Be careful on
designing towards
planning on
iterating as a fail-safe
28. More Lean UX principles adapted into process
Collaborative focus towards outcomes
Gather requirements
from stakeholders
User stories from
product backlog
Prototype
Internal
validation
Requirements
(Document as you go)
User research data
(Personas, User
stories, Pain points,
etc)
External
validation
Concept
31. Be pragmatic in evolving your UX process
Just do it
Growing
User
Research
Laser
focus on
outcomes
1. Know your users
2. Importance of prototyping
with the right fidelity &
realistic data
1. Empowering execution
teams
2. Designers as facilitators and
customer advocates
3. Know when to break the
process
4. Document as you go
5. Not all features are equal
6. Design towards avoiding
future iterations
There is no one-size fit all process. Adapt principles that work for you.
32. Q & A
Thank You!
kok.chiann@iconnect360.com
kokchiann.com
Editor's Notes
diverse cross-functional teams and ensure that the freedom to be creative is distributed evenly – not just to the designers. Let them be creative. Let them try solutions. Let them fail and lear
I want the teams to not only deliver great software. I want them to deliver beautiful, usable software
Designers as facilitators
They bring a strong sense of empathy to the team often acting as the main customer advocate.
diverse cross-functional teams and ensure that the freedom to be creative is distributed evenly – not just to the designers. Let them be creative. Let them try solutions. Let them fail and lear