Beyond Agile: People-Centered Development, User-Centered Results

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Come learn about an engineering development methodology other than “agile”, and how we use it to build Renku, a research collaboration platform.

In the last year and a half, we’ve transformed the Renku platform, building a totally new and more user-centric version of the platform from the ground up. But behind the scenes, our team itself has undergone a parallel transformation in how we build together. In this talk, I’ll share the key principles of the development methodology we have adopted to keep the user experience at the center of everything we build (Shape Up).

I’ll discuss how we translate high level strategy into day-to-day engineering, how we center our technical design process on the user experience, and how we integrate user research into our process.

This will be an open session with lots of time for questions and discussion! My hope is that you’ll leave with practical strategies to make your own development process both fulfilling for the people who build and delightful for the people who use what you create.

Best,
Laura