Agile Experience Design: A Digital Designer’s Guide to Agile, Lean, and Continuous

Agile project management

There are many books and training courses on agile project management, but to our knowledge there are none that address the management of design and design activities on an agile project. This is a major oversight in our opinion, because good design does not happen by accident. Design needs to be baked into the process, thought through, planned, and managed.

Traditionally, the designer or design team takes care of the design management, where design activities are contained in a design phase. When design is tightly integrated with delivery, as it should be on an agile project, then the agile project manager must be much more actively involved with design management. Where this is not the case and design is treated separately ...