Below is all of my content that has been tagged with the term agile. Browsing it should be very exciting for you. Enjoy.
I'm M. Jackson Wilkinson, a technologist, designer, speaker, educator, and writer in San Francisco. I recently moved from Washington, DC to work as a Senior Product Designer at LinkedIn, and am happy to take your feedback. I'm from Philadelphia, went to Bowdoin College in Maine, root for the Phillies, and love to sing.
The Etsy Team:
We deploy a lot of code. Deployinator is our creation to make that as easy and painless as possible. Deployinator is a one button web-based deployment app. Hit that button and code goes to our webservers and is serving requests in almost no time. Using Deployinator we’ve brought a typical web push from 3 developers, 1 operations engineer, everyone else on standby and over an hour (when things went smoothly) down to 1 person and under 2 minutes.
Even if you’re a designer, a process that allows you to push to prod anytime makes life and work so much better.
Naresh Jain comes to similar conclusions to my talk about Agile last year, with a somewhat different angle. In the end, as he says:
Bottom line, Agile is not a Silver Bullet and don’t fall pray to marketing gimmicks. Question dogmatic claims. Adapt Agile to your needs and take baby steps.
I also like his line in the slides: “Agile coaches and project managers are becoming the process police.” Kinda the antithesis of the Agile notion of people over process, eh?
If you’re spending your time designing for the homepage first, you may be sacrificing your time and your design’s quality in the process. I talk about “inside out” design and how it can help you as a designer and your client’s budget in the process.
Thoughts and slides from my talk on Agile Design and UX at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC.
I had the great pleasure to talk with Paul Boag a few weeks ago about agile design and development, and how designers can fit into an agile process effectively.