Happy New Year! We look forward to gathering in Grand Rapids, MI for a weekend of conversation, collaboration and community at the Balanced Team Summit. We’re going to continue many of the elements that we’ve enjoyed at past events: a great location, a mix of invited speakers, community contributions, open space sessions and lots of social time. We have an exciting weekend planned, and look forward to your participation. ...
Update 1/5/2015: the conference site is live at www.balancedteam.org/btgr2015 --- Hello friends! We are pleased to announce the theme for the Balanced Team Summit on June 13 and 14, 2015 in Grand Rapids, Michigan! Balanced Teams EverywhereBalance is action guided by incremental adjustments, rather than an achieved state. At the 2015 Balanced Team Summit, we will explore and share the latest techniques and innovations of Balanced Teams in different sized organizations in the software industry and beyond. Throughout it all, we’ll be considering the question, “What does it mean to be a balanced team?” ...
Agile 2014 was once again was full of UX related content — over 28 hours worth spread over five days. If, like us, you couldn’t attend this year here are links to all of the UX related slide decks we could find: The Girl With the Chisel Tip Marker (Lynne Cazaly) Intensifying User Stories (Bill Wake) Requirements, Product Ownership, and Other Misunderstood Concepts in Agile Development (Jeff Patton) Value Teams: The Next Evolution of the Product Owner (Ahmed Sidky) How to recognize the Zombie Persona Apocalypse (Michael Rawling) UX Runway: the trials and tribulations of a UX and Agile environment (Natalie Warnert) Creating Successful MVPs in Agile Teams (Melissa Perri) Go From a Nebulous Vision to Iteration One in 3 Steps (Mary Brodie) See the Value (Jeffrey Morgan, Ardita Karaj) Lean Startup Snowflakes (D. Andre Dhondt) How Agile UX and guerrilla testing helped change government policy (Kevin Murray, Imran Younis) The Anatomy of an Experience Framework: How to Create Better Products With Your Customers (Martina Schell) Build Products that Matter with Innovation Accounting (David Bland) You also might be interested in: ...
It is time for another Balanced Team meetup for the folks in Los Angeles and SoCal. It is set on Wednesday August 20, 2014 at Fandango in Santa Monica from 6:30pm to 9:30pm. RSVP on Meetup Instead of sitting down and listening to a few presentations, we have designed an activity for every attendee to participate in discussions and generate ideas together. Come prepared because it will be filled with plenty of conversations from people in the community sharing ideas, socializing, and offering insights from their own experience. ...
Update 1/5/2015: the conference site is live at www.balancedteam.org/bt2015 Update 11/24: Balanced Team Summit 2015 Theme announcement --- We’re pleased to announce that we will be holding a Balanced Team Summit on June 13 and 14, 2015 in Grand Rapids, Michigan! The planning committee is made up of Rick Harlow of Visualhero, Gail Swanson of Manifest Digital, Lane Halley, and Matt Fletcher and myself, Brittany Hunter, from Atomic Object. The event is a year from now, so we’ve got plenty of time to plan a great conference. Currently, we’re working to secure a great venue and choose a theme. We’ve got some great ideas, but everything is under consideration at this point. Is there a particular theme or question you’ve been wondering about and would like to further explore with fellow Balanced Teamers? Let us know by filling out our quick google form! ...
On Saturday May 31st, a group of poly-skilled developers, designers, researchers, academics, entrepreneurs and product managers will be meeting. Come join us. Tickets are available on Eventbrite now! If you’re interested in Lean Startup, Agile, Lean, Agile UX, Lean UX, Devops, Customer Development – and anything else that values multi-disciplinary collaboration and iterative delivery of value – you’ll find this of interest. Don’t know what Balanced Team is about? Read about the history of Balanced Team, check out our blog posts, and see some of the things that happened at the last Balanced Team London. ...
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There has been a great deal of recent momentum with the Balanced Team folks. A clutch of long time members gathered recently for the Lean UX NYC conference followed up by a Balanced Team Salon hosted at Pivotal Labs. Several of us shared a desire to carry some of that energy back with us to the west coast. Initially this felt like a good opportunity to round up some of the BT friends in San Francisco for a night of cocktails and conversation. After a couple conversations among several folks we decided to change course, put some structure around it and turn it into a Salon. ...
Balanced Team Salon SF We’re pleased to announce a Balanced Team Salon April 24, 2014 at Carbon Five in San Francisco CA. RSVP on EVENTBRITE Salons are becoming popular format in the BT community as they involve plenty of networking, short talks from people in the community sharing what they’ve learned and then a fishbowl - a collaborative, inclusive conversation that allows many people to get involved and share. With quite a few people in our SF community coming back from an amazing day-long BT NYC Salon we thought we might bring some of that energy and discussion back home. Our talks will share some of the learning and intrigues from the Salon and Lean UX 2014 conference. And then we’ll pull out some of the more intriguing themes and topics that were discussed as starters for our fishbowl. ...
BUY TICKETS ON EVENTBRITE deLUX is happening again this year at SXSW! Please join us March 7 for some beers & bites at sunset on the beautiful patio at Adaptive Path, followed by a short program from some of the leading practicioners in the Lean / Balanced Team community. Program Starts @ 6:30pm. Short talks from: Jeff Gothelf, Neo Principal and author of LeanUX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience Jeremiah Gardner, Handcrafted Brands Principal and author of The Lean Brand Alissa Briggs + Raman Hansi, Intuit Innovation Catalysts and SXSW 2014 Speakers Chris Nodder, Interface Tamer and producer of Questionable Methods. BUY TICKETS ON EVENTBRITE ...