Conversation,
Cadence & Culture
Recipes to inspire collaborative teams
Lane Halley
@thinknow
lane@carbonfive.com




Courtney Hemphill
@chemphill
courtney@carbonfive.com
Agenda
Today you will learn how to:

  • Stimulate necessary conversations between
    team members

  • Advance with a shared vision and
  • Maintain a culture of invested team members
Throughout the lifecycle of your product
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What are the qualities of
happy productive teams?
Good work comes from good teams

 Trust      Ownership
                        Empathy
  Communication
                    Fun
 Flow
          Empowerment
                          Creativity
  Productivity
Culture
Our work at Carbon Five
Carbon Five
Design + Agile + Lean Startup

Design Thinking
empathy, creativity and rationality


Agile Development
self-organizing teams, quality code, iterative & incremental delivery


Lean Startup
products people want, learning experiments
Developer
              Designer




    Product
    Owner
Project room
Conversation
Recipes to unlock creativity and collaboration
Recipes for conversation
Question               Recipe
What’s the vision?     Opportunity Statement,
                       Persona 4x4,
                       Project Brief
What might we do?      Six-ups, Scenarios
How will it look and   Thumbnails,
behave?                Wireframe Walkthrough
Recipes for conversation
Question              Recipe
Where do we start?    Define MVPs &
                      Experiments
How do we build it?   User Stories
Does it work?         Five on Friday
Recipes are not a process

Use whatever helps your team:

•Focus on a shared goal
•Minimize handoffs
•Have the right conversations
Let’s see how this works!
wheel nice guys
 wheel nice guys
Create a shared vision
 opportunity statement
 persona 4x4
 six ups
Opportunity statement

Problem: Custom bike shoppers find it difficult
to learn about, configure and purchase bikes.



Solution: A Web application that lets custom
bike shoppers explore different components,
envision different combinations and understand
price.
Demo: bike riders
persona 4x4
Try it!

Six-ups
Based on the opportunity statement,
what could we create for Peter?
What could we create?

Problem: Peter finds it difficult to learn about,
configure and purchase a new commuter bike.



Solution: A Web application that lets Peter
explore different components, envision different
combinations and understand price.
Show and tell (six-ups)
six-up




         demo: six-up conversation
Define an MVP
dot voting
project brief
Try it!

Dot voting
Based on the conversation you
observed, where are areas of risk &
opportunity?
six-up




         Where’s your dot?
dot voting




       demo: MVP conversation
project brief

      last updated

      opportunity

      persona(s)

      scenarios

      metrics
Just in time design
 scenario
 UI elements and layouts
 thumbnails
 living style guides & visual assets
Scenario                           demo: scenario
Peter explores bike profiles         conversation
Sees info about what he can do here
Sees multiple bike images w/ basic info & price
Uses controls to pan through them
Chooses a bike to see in more detail

Peter sees the bike he picked

Sees large image of bike he chose
Sees list of parts with info and prices
Sees the total price
etc...
Scenario [element names]
Peter explores bike profiles on the CHOOSE BIKE PAGE
 Sees info about what he can do here [Content box]
 Sees multiple bike images w/ basic info & price [Carousel]
 Uses controls to pan through them [Carousel]
 Chooses a bike to see in more detail [Carousel]

Peter sees the bike he picked on the CONFIGURE BIKE PAGE

 Sees large image of bike he chose [Bike config picture]
 Sees list of parts with info and prices [Bike config list]
 Sees the total price [Bike config list]
 etc...
UI elements

 Header


 Talk to us


 Marketing message(s)


 Bike images


 Bike config picture


 Bike config list


 Footer
demo: device support
page layouts




               thumbnails
Living style guide
& visual assets
Define an experiment
 wireframe walkthrough
 user stories
demo: wirefame walkthrough
Try it!

1-week experiment
What can we build and validate in the first week?
Try it!

User story
As a.... I want to...so that...
Acceptance criteria?
user stories
Cadence
Establishing your continuous, iterative cycles
How much time?
 project start
 kickoff - 2 days to 2 weeks


 regular cadence
 Monday - reflect & define
 Tuesday - specify
 Wednesday & Thursday - build & refine
 Friday - customer feedback
How can you use these
recipes on your projects?
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Thank you!

Carbon Five
Lean UX & Agile
Development for Web
and mobile products



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Conversation, Cadence & Culture