Presenter:          Janice James; User Experience Strategist, Design for Context; USA
Kate Walton; UX Director, Perficient; USA
Jon Innes; Founder, UX Innovation LLC; USA
Title: There's more than one way to skin a cat:  Integrating UX into an Agile environment.
Day/Date: Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Time: 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Location:  Gunston
Session Type: Panel
Description: Each panel member will share a case study example of how they successfully (mostly) integrate UX methods into an agile development environment. Discussions will include examining pros and cons of each method and challenges encountered. Audience members can consider each of the methods and determine how they might create a more optimized solution for their own work environments.
Audience: General
Track:  Strategy
Biography:

With 25+ years in the field of User Experience, Janice James' expertise comes from 9 years as principal of her own company, Simply Usable through Design, and as the creator and manager of UX programs at Netscape Communications, AA/Sabre and Electronic Forms Systems. She also served as Director of UX at Perficient and is currently a UX Strategist with Design for Context. She is principal founder of UPA, serving as President for five years and on the Board through 1999. She is a contributing author of Usability in Practice and co-author of User-Centered Design Stories.

Kate Walton has worked in multiple corporations in both the U.S. and Europe to create usability programs and develop user experience teams. She is currently a UX Director at Perficient. where her latest project has revolved around developing and leading a UX program for Halliburton in an ‘ever-evolving’ agile environment. Her experience has been shaped from a Master’s degree in Human Factors Psychology + 19 years of experience working in the U.S. and Europe across many industries including travel, e-commerce, health, education, financial, and energy. She is a contributing author of User-Centered Design Stories.

Jon Innes is founder of a product design management consultancy that specializes in helping companies improve their design & research practices. His experience spans a wide variety of domains including consumer and enterprise software, consumer hardware, IT projects, and e-commerce website design. He has led UX projects for several members of the Fortune 1000, such as Intuit, Cisco, & Siebel, both as a consultant and a member of an in-house team. He is also a Certified Scrum Product Owner, with extensive experience integrating Agile and UX in both large distributed teams and early stage startups.
Key Words: Agile, User Experience, case study, UX, methodology