With quality assurance/control already embedded in our development process, what if we expand that role to champion usability and customer delight? Join Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant as he discusses how we can educate and equip our QA/QC process to forge champions of customer experience.
5. Become a Customer-Driven Organization
User-Driven Innovation
User-Driven Development (UDD/UCD)
• User Satisfaction
User Experience (UX)
• User Experience Design
• Persona Research
• User Journeys
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/tag/user-driven-innovation/
https://www.usability.gov/what-and-why/user-centered-design.html
https://www.agilealliance.org/wp-
content/uploads/2016/08/Researh.2014.Jurca_.Hellmann.Maurer.pdf
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6. Defining the Problem
Our mission is to provide solutions customers find valuable
• Identify the need
• Validate the Value
• Define a solution
• Build and test the solution
• Validate the solution delivers the Value
• Delivery
PM
Dev
Shipping/DevOps
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7. Validate the solution delivers the Value
When and how do we check?
• While we are in progress (Sprint Demos/embed)
• Customer rep and development team
• Partial Feature validation
• When there is something to show (demo)
• Management review
• High level technical review
• Targeted use cases/Functional Review
• When we are ready to deliver (hand-off)
• Trial period/Beta Test
• Compliance Review
• Usability Review
PM
Dev
User
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8. The Need
• Representatives that can speak for the user
• Engaged as early as possible
• Skilled in user psychology
• With a voice that influences decision making
UX $$$
Money
Manpower
Time/Repeatability
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9. Add End-User Championship to QA Mission
Too technically focused
Not impartial
Insufficient skill set
Career accountability to the wrong side
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10. Add End-User Championship to QA Mission
Skill Set
Certification needs
Tools and Integrations
Jobs to be Done
Wingtip to Wingtip
End to End Workflow
Cycle Time/Flow
Culture
Lean Mindset
Customer Focus
Seat at the Table
KPIs/Metrics
Compensation/Rewards
Knowledge
Day in the Life
User Pain Points
Compensation
The Why of Goals
The Why of Tools
Environment
Training (QA) Exposure (PM) Resolve (Execs)
Anthony Ulwick – Strategyn
https://strategyn.com/jobs-to-be-done/jobs-to-be-done-playbook/what-is-jobs-to-
be-done/
https://www.google.com/books/edition/What_Customers_Want_Using_Outcom
e_Driven/NL4eMqlX_8YC?hl=en&gbpv=0
Wingtip to Wingtip - Steve Bennet – CEO Intuit, Symantec
Recommended:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Rocket_Surgery_Made_Easy/9Q3OQVyX_-
QC?hl=en&gbpv=0
Oreilly series – Lean UX
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11. Ordinary World
Innermost Cave
Meet the Mentor
Road Back
Call to Adventure
Refuse the Call
Return with Elixir
Resurrection
Cross the Threshold
Tests, Allies, Enemies
Reward
Ordeal
Hero’s
Journey
Campbell, Joseph. The hero with a thousand faces. United Kingdom, Princeton
University Press, 2004.
20th Century Fox ; Lucasfilm Limited production ; written and directed by George
Lucas ; produced by Gary Kurtz. Star Wars. Episode IV, A New Hope. Beverly Hills,
Calif. :20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2013.
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12. Ordinary World
Project Schedule at risk
Hire the Pros
Drive the Project home
The Right Idea
Getting the buy in
New World View for PMO
Deliver and Retro
Pull the Trigger/Forming
Storming
New Insights
Reconciliation/Norming
Culture
Journey
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13. The Need
• Representatives that can speak for the User
• Engaged as early as possible
• Skilled in User psychology
• With a voice that influences decision making
Possibilities
• Hire pros if you can
• Utilize the teams you already have
• Give them the Skills
• Give them the Knowledge
• Give them the Culture
• Give them the Opportunity to Grow
Maybe even more
than just QA
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14. A big move toward Customer-Driven Organization
and User-Driven Innovation
Thank you!
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