Walking Skeletons
Walking Skeleton - the simple prioritization technique for MVPs
Lazaro Ibanez | Medium | 23rd January 2020
There’s no shortage of prioritization methods, but most fit well-established products. How do you prioritize your features when you are just getting started? Enter the Walking Skeleton. Focused on key features that reflect your business concept (skeleton) and form an independent, fully shippable product (walking). (860 words)
Is Agile an anti-design pattern?
Shamsi Brinn | UX Collective | 15th April 2022
“In Agile, discovery is assumed.”
Agile assumes you have a product spec. But how do you know you’re building towards your business goals and user needs? Frameworks, like Design Sprints, Sprint 0, XP, or Dual Track Agile, have emerged to help create a process around discovery. Brinn proposes a new framework she calls No Handoff. Building on top of dual-track it adds functional prototypes from day one. (870 words)
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