Thanks to everyone who attended Silicon Halton’s first Lean Startup workshop at Club e-Spot! I was pleased to see one attendee found a customer at the session and earned a $500 commitment for her service. A service that she didn’t…
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8 Tips for Usability Testing
Thank you to those who attended our Usability (UX) Testing and Prototyping session at Sheridan last night! Julie Buelow gave a fascinating and engaging presentation on usability testing which included some great examples from real-world scenarios and websites. Here are my top…
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Meetup 7 – Agile Product Design Notes
Thanks to everyone who attended the meetup! We started off with an exercise to demonstrate why collaboration is more effective than documentation (and sub-sequent handoffs of said documentation). During the first part of the exercised that was document driven, 2…
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Tagged with: agile product design, paper prototyping, storymapping
Posted in Agile/Lean Coffee Meetups, latest-news
Posted in Agile/Lean Coffee Meetups, latest-news
Personal Kanban Highlights
Thanks to everyone who attended last night’s meetup on Personal Kanban. Alex Zheglov provided a great talk with a fun exercise to demonstrate the benefits of personal kanban. Kanban is a tool for visualizing your work and maximizing your throughput…
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SH Agile Meetup #6 – Personal Kanban
Alexei Zheglov will be presenting an introduction to Personal Kanban. Personal Kanban applies Kanban’s core principles (visualize what you do, pull, limit work-in-progress) to personal work. Just as its big enterprise sibling, Personal Kanban can be your improvement engine. You…
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SH Agile Meetup #5 – Specification by Example – Dec 6, 7PM
Chris Gow will be presenting Specification by Example. Want to learn how to communicate requirements more effectively? This session is for you! You’ll learn what Specification By Example is, how it’s used at Guidewire and we’ll do a hands on…
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Silicon Halton Agile/Lean Open Space Highlights
Thanks to everyone who attended our first Open Space! We are going to be starting monthly evening meetups based on feedback, look for more details here and on the SH Linked In group. We had planned to do 3 tracks…
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Silicon Halton Agile/Lean P2P Open Jam – Nov 15!
We’re proud to announce our first Open Jam session happening Tuesday November 15! You get register for the event on our Linked In Event page. We’ll have 3 tracks and follow and Open Space format where you the attendees can…
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Meetup #3 – The Lean Startup
We had planned to do a Kanban simulation but didn’t get enough people out to run it. We ended up talking about Lean Startup which was the next topic on our backlog. The premise of Lean Startup is that everything…
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