The document discusses how design can be approached using Agile principles by being iterative, part of product strategy, and delivering learnings with a flexible process. It provides examples of activities like research, sketches, wireframes and testing hypotheses to explore design options. The process involves discovery sprints, design ownership from start to finish, and opportunities for feedback and flexibility between phases. The goal is a healthy design process that can be challenged to continuously improve.

1. Michael Le @lifeofmle
Exploring design with Agile

4. Design is iterative

6. Before After

7. Be part of product strategy
Deliver learnings
Flexibility in the process

8. Product
Backlog
Sprint
Backlog
Potentially Shippable
Items

9. Be part of product strategy

10. – Yaseed Chaumoo, Telegraph
“If you don’t have a dream you’ll be heading
towards nothing”

11. Research

12. Sketches

13. Wireframes

14. #showyourwork

15. Existing Vision

16. Product roadmap

17. Product
Backlog
Sprint
Backlog
Potentially Shippable
Items

18. Deliver learnings

19. TDDTest Driven Design

20. If [action]
then [outcome]
because [customer need/problem]
Source — Maximilian Wambach, eBay Germany

21. We test hypotheses not designs

22. Hypothesis lead testing
Better for density

23. Share results

24. Product
Backlog
Sprint
Backlog
Learnings

25. Flexibility in the process

27. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Test
DemoDemoDemo
Sprint schedule

28. Dev have the opportunity to
feedback into current designs
Explore & Discover
Implementation & Build
Design ownership from start to finish
Design team can cycle through phases

29. DeliveryDiscovery

30. Design sprints with discovery

31. Scrum in delivery

32. Discovery Delivery

34. Product Design Technology

35. Product
Design
Technology
What does the user need?
What is appropriate
and possible?
What does the
business need?

37. Scrum of scrums

38. Quarterly planning sessions

39. A healthy design process is one
that can be challenged

40. Tech
Debt Design
Debt

41. Tech
Debt
Design
Debt

42. TRUST

43. Budget
Design
Build
Evaluate

44. Budget
Design
Build
Evaluate

45. Budget
Design
Build
Evaluate

46. Be part of product strategy
Deliver learnings
Flexibility in the process

47. – Henrik Kniberg, Spotify
“Agile matters more than Scrum”

48. Michael Le @lifeofmle
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