Is Lean UX Agile’s Brain? How Lean UX Fixes Common Agile

Talk by Nick Van Weerdenburg, CEO at Rangle.io

Agile development methods are sweeping the software industry, but reconciling UX, Agile and stakeholder demands for certainty are a struggle for many companies.

Expanding on a (in)famous “Agile doesn’t have brain” quote, Nick Van Weerdenburg, founder of Rangleio, shares his insights from 60+ modern front-end JavaScript projects on how Lean UX can drive the conversations that drive the creation of the right solution for the right audience.

Topics Covered

  • How to connect the user to the Agile development process
  • How to use Lean UX to drive Agile prioritization
  • How Lean UX creates the right conversations and eliminates the wrong ones
  • How to avoid UX design become a defacto waterfall process
  • How to use Lean UX to help drive effective enterprise transformation to Agile practices

Speaker's Bio

Nick Van Weerdenburg

Nick is Rangle.io’s founder, first developer, and now leads the company’s business development and strategy activities. Nick first did server-side JavaScript in 1997 and has 15 years of experience in web software in diverse roles and industries. He is a firm believer in the thin-server, full-JavaScript stack and an active speaker, delivering about a dozen talks each year. To hear more from Nick, follow him on Twitter at @n1cholasv.