Building Research into every Iteration

SCRUM & LEAN UX | Episode 5

LEAN UX promotes continuous inspections and adaptations; guiding teams in minimizing risk and maximizing value by validating riskiest assumptions early and often throughout each Sprint. Scrum requires those inspections to be performed diligently.

To achieve this, teams inject evidence-based decisions based on customer and user data into development. This enables the team to journey from doubt to certainty during a Sprint. These insights will act a a guide. It will tell the team if they are on the right track and timely tell them to change direction. Guided these insights a team can make steps more confidently.

Connecting the team more closely with end users requires significantly more than just having interactions with Stakeholders during a Sprint Review.

Performing research each iteration is a team activity in Lean UX. This creates transparency. The whole team is learning and developing a shared understanding which enables them to adapt early.

“Shared understanding is the currency of Lean UX. The more a team collectively understands what they are doing and why, the less they need to debate what happened and can quickly move to how to solve for the new learning. In addition, it reduces the team’s dependencies on second-hand reports…