User experience (UX) is one of the top priorities of organizations in 2016. Customers simply expect that they will intuitively understand how to use your software - and if they don't, they will rapidly move on to using your competitor's products. However, how can you ensure that your project to develop a powerful UX will be delivered on-time and on-budget, with the results you are expecting? In this webinar, Belatrix's user experience (UX) guru, Bruno Vilches, will demonstrate how to successfully scope and estimate a UX project. In the webinar you will take away: * Key factors to consider when scoping your UX project * Step-by-step guide to scoping and estimating a UX project * How the UX process will help you make accurate estimations Here's the webinar recording: http://www.belatrixsf.com/index.php/tactics-to-successfully-scope-and-estimate-ux-projects/

1. Tactics to Successfully Scope and
Estimate UX Projects

2. Bruno Vilches
Project Manager
Charles Green
Director of Thought Leadership
Panelists

3. Planning UX projects
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Is a balance between getting the right amount of user
input within the constraints of your project.

4. Succesful
Challenged
Failed
Standish Group 2013 Chaos Report
39%
43%
18%
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• 39% of the projects were
successful in delivering a result on
time and within budget.
• 43% were challenged, meaning
they had to scramble or find extra
resources.
• 18% failed outright, running out of
money or time before they could
deliver.

5. Why is it so hard?
ESTIMATING
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Without an accurate estimate it’s impossible to know how
much budget you need to allocate and what variables will
impact in the final pricing for the work to be done.

6. Pricing models
• Hourly rate
• Fixed price
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7. Freelancers have no long-term
commitment
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8. Working with little information
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Sometimes you might not know what it
actually needs to be changed.

9. Key principle for all UX projects
Involve users in the
design process
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10. Time estimation
What do you need to take into account
when planning your project?
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11. 1. Have a defined process
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12. 2. Break it into pieces
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13. 3. Record and review data from past projects
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14. 4. Tell them your budget
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15. UX project phases
The research phase1
The design phase2
The validation phase3
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16. Constraints
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It includes factors such as budget, time available,
delivery deadlines, resource availability, information
availability, related projects, access to tools, and
legal documentation.

17. Five lessons to scope
and estimate better
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1. Remember that product scope,
project scope, and estimates are
separate things

19. 2. Make sure everyone
understands the scope
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3. Involve key stakeholders, including
the delivery team and those at your
company who will approve and
operate the end product, in scoping

21. 4. Ask for an estimate that breaks the
work down into a detailed list of tasks
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22. 5. Expect some uncertainty
levels but ask them in estimates
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23. Bruno Vilches
bvilches@belatrixsf.com
Charles Green
cgreen@belatrixsf.com
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