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Last week I gave a talk at the Chicago Product Management Association together with Pathfinder Software's Amy Willis and Reid MacTavish on the lessons we've learned in integrating Lean Startup, User Experience Design and Agile Development. Here are the slides from the talk - a video recording will follow soon.
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A friend of mine recently asked me if I knew any User Experience Design positions in NYC area. I was baffled to learn how many UX Designer positions are currently open right now . How many of these positions are really web design, IA (information architecture), interaction design or another established craft, but filed under a buzzword name? Frankly, how can you design a user experience? Doesn't it just happen?
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This is a more in depth workshop that extends the sold out one hour workshop we gave at the Chicago Product Management and Association in November.
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Pathfinder's Amy Willis ( UX), Reid MacTavish (Agile) and I are giving a presentation on November 15th to a joint session of the Chicago Product Management Association and Chicago Agile Project Management group on how to integrate Lean, UX and Agile. We'd love to see you there.
Here's some more on the presentation:
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