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What is Agile Development?......06

Definitive Agile Development

Topic Definitions........................ 07

Engaging Agile
Development Videos................. 10

Informative Agile
Development Articles................ 12

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This toolkit is an authoritative library of free, peer-reviewed and
open-access videos, articles and templates on UX Design. Designed
for teachers, educators and professors at universities, colleges,
schools and companies.
We've curated the best resources on Agile Development from
leading designers, bestselling authors and Ivy League professors.
Our resources include Topic Definitions, UX Design Articles,
Instructional Videos and Ready-To-Use Templates.
Simply link to one or more of the resources and we'll make sure
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Topic Definitions
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updated UX Design definitions, peer-reviewed by
content experts. Ideal for your student curriculum.
Instructional Videos
An engaging series of open-access and accessible
videos that cover UX Design methods, topics and
principles. Easily shared with your students.
UX Design Articles
The world’s largest free online resource on UX
Design, with new articles published every day.
Designed to be included in your curriculum.
Ready-To-Use Templates
A series of ready-to-use templates that contain
valuable, practical and time-saving processes.
Perfect for your class assignments and group projects.
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is Agile Development? Topic

Agile development is an iterative software-development Definitions
methodology which teams use in projects. Self-organized, cross-
functional teams frequently analyze circumstances and user needs
An authoritative library of open-access and always updated UX
to adapt projects. Scrum teams constantly improve quality in sprints
Design definitions, peer-reviewed by content experts. Ideal for
with short-term deliverables. They show Agile development in action.
your student curriculum.

“We need to stop designing faster and Kanban Boards

learn how to start designing less.” A Kanban board is a project management tool that helps teams
visualize work and track project status in real-time. Borrowing
— Laura Klein them from the Toyota Production System, agile teams frequently
use Kanban boards to increase transparency and limit the
Sample Video work-in-progress.

Learn more about Agile Development and techniques for better

team collaboration and cooperation.
Information Radiators
Information Radiators are visual artifacts displayed prominently in
a team’s workspace to convey key information to all team members.
Also known as “big visible charts,” they ensure everyone on the
team has access to updated information at all times, thus facilitating
transparency and preventing miscommunication.

User Stories
User stories are short statements about a feature, written from a
user’s perspective. A well-defined user story does not spell out the
exact feature, but rather what the user aims to achieve, to give agile
teams the freedom to identify the best possible way to implement
the feature.

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Design Iteration
Great designs don't just appear overnight – they take time to get
right. UX designers and, in fact, all other kinds of designer know that
they don't get one try to make a product the best it can be, it takes
many iterations to get the product the way that it best suits the user.
Iterative design processes are used across all design disciplines to
produce results that count. A UX designer should ensure that they
understand how iteration works and how to best use it in their
own work.
Minimum Viable Product
Designers who work in startup environments will need to become
familiar with the concept of the minimum viable product (MVP). It's
the ideal state for a product to reach launch which tries to minimize
risks for investors whilst still providing a product that will succeed
on the open market. The idea is simple – release a product with the
smallest number of features and ship as quickly as possible.
Design Systems
A design system is a library of reusable components and guidelines
that people within a company can combine into interfaces
and interactions. What goes into a design system and how it is
implemented can vary quite a bit from company to company,
depending on the size and maturity of the design practice and the
needs of the product team.
Design Sprints
Design sprints are an intense 5-day process where user-centered
teams tackle design problems. Working with expert insights, teams
ideate, prototype and test solutions on selected users. Google’s
design sprint is the framework to map out challenges, explore
solutions, pick the best ones, create a prototype and test it.
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Stakeholder Maps
If you're going to get involved with managing design projects then
you're going to need to be able to balance the needs of different
stakeholders to get the job done to the business's satisfaction.
One technique for assisting with the management of stakeholders
is stakeholder analysis and stakeholder mapping. This allows you
to determine who the stakeholders in the project are and how much
of your attention and effort each stakeholder should be given to
keep your project on track. This is an essential skill in design
project management.
UX Management
UX management is the practice of managing user experience
design-related activities inside an organization to create growth and
good management practices. Typical UX management activities are
to define an organization’s UX design language and strategy and
manage the work processes around UX design.
Incrementalism
Incrementalism is an approach designers use to address large
problems. Doing incremental design, they wait for a chance to take
small steps toward a known goal and win community support.
Designers learn from and modify these interventions to match the
current situation instead of investing in high-risk grand solutions.
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Instructional Minimum Viable Product

Videos
An engaging series of open-access and accessible videos that
cover UX Design methods, topics and principles. Easily shared
with your students.
What is Agile Development?
Agile development is an iterative development
methodology which teams use in projects.
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Team Research
This video covers the idea of team research and ways
to make it easier and less disruptive.
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Innovation vs. Incremental Improvement
Learn how to distinguish between big innovative
changes and small incremental improvements.
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Defining the minimum viable product is tricky. Learn
practical tips on how to scope out the MVP.
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Kanban Board
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User Stories
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Information Radiators
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You Don’t Know What Perfect Is

Learn how you can train yourself to think in terms of
good enough, instead of “perfect.”
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UX Design
Articles
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Designing the Smallest Possible Thing
One of the most challenging aspects of being a designer on an agile
team is the fundamental idea of shipping code quickly and often.
Designers working on a team doing sprints… Read more >>
Innovation vs. Incremental Improvement
Often, product teams, regardless of how agile they are, don’t have a
very good distinction between “how to do research for a brand new,
innovative product” vs “how to do research… Read more >>
Team Research
Collaborating with team members, especially engineers, can
drastically improve the types of research you can do in a short period
of time. Involving other folks helps to develop… Read more >>
You Don’t Know What Perfect Is
Agile teams are not great places to be perfectionists, mostly because
we rarely know what makes something perfect. And, frankly, what
designers think of as “perfect” is almost… Read more >>
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A Simple Introduction to Lean UX
Lean UX is an incredibly useful technique when working on projects
where the Agile development method is used. Traditional UX
techniques often don’t work when development… Read more >>
User Stories - Capturing the User’s
Perspective Quickly and Simply
User stories are a simple tool for articulating the user’s perspective.
They are not long, wordy stories to be told around a camp fire but
rather short (often only a single sentence)… Read more >>
User Stories: As a [UX Designer] I want to
[embrace Agile] so that [I can make my
projects user-centered]
Let’s examine a tool so simple yet so powerful that once you’ve
learned about it, you will apply it in all your projects. It is a great
design method that enhances collaboration… Read more >>
Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and
Design - Balancing Risk to Gain Reward
The simplest definition is that an MVP must be the simplest core
feature set of any product that allows it to be deployed and absolutely
nothing more. However, the most popular definition… Read more >>
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Ready-To-Use Twelve Principles Behind

the Agile Manifesto
Templates The Agile Manifesto, written in 2001, is a collection
of principles to help teams approach their work,
A series of ready-to-use templates that contain valuable, practical specifically in uncertain environments.
and time-saving processes. Perfect for your class assignments and Download poster >>
group projects.

Glossary of Agile Terms Want to Download More?

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Agile has its own language, which can be quite
daunting to newcomers! Here’s a cheat sheet that
covers the most common practices and terms that
you’ll find on agile teams.
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Initiative Document
Agile teams move quickly and team members often
make decisions in parallel, so it’s critical to get team
alignment. The Initiative Document aims to help
teams develop a shared understanding of the goals
of a feature or product. Download template >>

Product Roadmap
Traditional product roadmaps such as Gantt charts
are incompatible with a flexible, agile team. To help
agile teams plan for the future, download the Now-
Next-Later Framework template to develop your
product strategy. Download template >>

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