Getting Ready

Apparently there’s already 12 people signed up to come to the workshop myself and Ann Carrier (née McMeekin) are running at IA Summit in a few weeks. We’re both super excited and eagerly getting ready to spend a whole afternoon working with enthusiasts and sceptics to figure out if / how the original developers’ manifesto can be adapted and applied to UX. I’d be interested in finding out if people are more interested in focussing on the vision / philosophy of agile as it applies to UX, or more pragmatic “how can we make it work” ideas. We were very much focussed on the former when we ran this in London at UX People, but are both open to ideas. If this whole topic is something you’re interested in, and you can get to Denver, CO for the event, we’ll be spending Thursday afternoon (31 March, 1pm to 5pm) with you folks.

For those of you who just want to find out a little bit more about our experiences “doing agile” in the world of financial software, I’ll also be talking at the main event. You can catch me on Sunday morning (April 3) when I’ll be chatting about my favourite topic “Wireframes are dead“.

Finally, a confession. I am running a couple of side-agenda’s with my trip stateside.

Apparently the snow in Colorado is “quite nice” so we’re going to stop off in Vale just before the conference. The last time I was seen snowboarding stateside was back in 2005 up in Mount Baker. It was my first attempt at any snow sport and I spent a merry couple of hours falling on my butt on a sheet of ice adjacent to the car park there. Two tubs of Tiger Balm that evening, and I still wanted to go back for more (maybe that’s more revealing than I’d like it to be). Then, to round off the trip, I’m stopping by the Lab49 office in New York en route back to London. Looking forward to catching up with the cool cats near Wall Street.