Notes on LeanUX

[kelleyP]

Great to see everyone last night! I'm already getting a personal scrum/kan-ban board set up to see if I can up the visibility of what I'm working on for the dev team ; ).  

NEXT UP 

• June 26, 2013 // BOOK: "Designing for the Moment", Robert Hokeman, Jr. || Author's Site | Amazon | Google
• July 24, 2013 // STUDIO: Current suggestions include...
• Discussion/demo on Bootstrap/live styleguides for rapid development
• Design an event aggregator (by us for us)
• Julia's thesis project

NOTES

• You have to go into a project with the assumption that what you're going to do is wrong. 
• Pushing the UX process into agencies is really hard (sketch-to-build).
• Trying to make UX work with Agile is also a challenge - MB has been experimenting with scrum boards for each person (as needed - too cumbersome with all projects - individuals create their own user stories or Epics; they create their own tasks; team meets every week or every day)
• "Undercover UX" does a good job of getting things you want to do done 
• "Lean for me is about learning." When you work at an agency, clients expect you to do the right thing via some sort of agency magic.
• We're going to get you to New York. We're going to go east, and we're going to have check points along the way to make sure we can get there
• A lot of clients already know the end point they desire (or believe they do) and are less interested in the exploration
• What affects a company's tolerance for being agile or lean? Funding? Relationship with the agency? 
• It's important to be a good researcher - suggests hiring a research coach
• PayPal was really waterfall historically. They hired David Markus to help them behave more like a startup. All teams are scrum team now. 
• Using phrases like "Our Research" (thanks Tomer Sharon) and i have a hypothesis...
• "Learning is the new deliverable" (LeanUX Conference NY via Alison)
• Learning becomes leverage - can you measure that? 
• ReturnPath is experimenting with Hack-a-thons (3 days of working side-by-side)
• Tools for remote paired programing: HipChat & ScreenHero

JOBS & EVENTS

• ReturnPath is hiring. 
• HomeAdvisor is hiring.
• GovJam - June 4-6 (day and evening tracks
• Slice of Lime - hosting the next UIE webinar next Thursday (May 30) - "Controlling the pace of UX with Content Strategy"
• Malenke is looking for a senior developer
• Pearson is looking for a senior UX

ATTENDEES // Who is the strangest person you know? 

1. Travis - Taylor, ex-marine, quirky - had an incident with a frozen ice cream cake, drooling, etc
2. Tim - friend in high school who drove a riding lawn mower to church, had a car with 7 horns
3. Kelley - 
4. Sean - me?
5. Anna - has an uncle obsessed with why gold is valuable
6. Chance - three younger sisters - dance weird/play weird
7. Alison - an armenian-russian cinematographer guy, tells great stories that amuse him immensely, wore skinny jeans before it was cool
8. Heather - my husband take pictures of random things and says random things; makes for a great blog
9. Jenni - an Italian named Alasondro I met walking across Spain who poses a lot of interesting questions via Facebook
10. Michael - socially awkward developer with amazing volume who wears an awesome Star Wars t-shirt every day (highlight = black velvet chukka)
11. Jason - Sam at the Denver bicycle cafe who only draws on napkins, constantly wears a fedora, vest, 80s glasses and sings loudly, stumbled upon a large box of sex toys in the alley before a big road trip so they made a sculpture
12. Julia - a best friend from college with an extremely varied set of interests - food, urban planning, food, puppies, air-guitar, design
13. Jen - a former coworker who started her own business and has a life so different from mine - lives where she works, couch surfs the world & LOVES it; great stories & adventures
14. Laurel - worked with Dan Dan the soup man at Macy's in high school; drove a pinto cruising wagon with a PA system
15. Mike R - Hal, former neighbor, supportive, loyal-friend but able to turn on a dime; used to show up even when there wasn't a dinner party - just called at dinner time
16. Justin - a professor in college who ran the church of William Blake; gave an assignment with a paper plate peep hole experiment
17. Ryan - friend struggling with religion, went through lots of extremes, would jump on his motorcycle and disappear for months at a time; liberated himself of all worldly belongings at a Goodwill in downtown Minneapolis
18. Mike C - 
19. Shayna - Meaner Schnitzel - roller derby ref covered in Hello Kitty tattoos; 2 spare tires on his car
20. Michael - a piano student of his father's that wore a gas mask when she went outdoors; kept stray pigeons for pets - and inquired about patterns for knitting plastic diapers for pigeons
21. Meredith - worked for a guy in his 30s who made Barbie videos (Laurel was the voice for one movie)
22. Kirsten -  Hugh from a normal small town; hangs on the street playing guitar with 1/2 a beard
23. Joy - Gary B---man asked her to do a photo-shoot with a plastic mask
24. Curtis - ex-coworked Ed whose sister and dad were on the Jerry Springer Show; started a site called "Ed wants a Hummer Fund" (to raise money to buy a Hummer)
25. Mike M - coworker who has a lot of flair in his cube; has covered other square inch of his cube with Nicholas Cage

[Mike Rivera]

It was a fun night and very timely book choice from the sound of it. 

As for the events listing in Kelley's notes, the webinar details can be found at sliceoflime.com/events (11:30am, Thu, May 30) and you can RSVP at sliceux7.eventbrite.com. Free lunch, free session, good peeps, good times.

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