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

5. Get ready to go

“ALL MEN DREAM: BUT NOT EQUALLY. THOSE THAT DREAM BY NIGHT IN THE DUSTY RECESSES OF THEIR MINDS AWAKE TO FIND THAT IT WAS VANITY: BUT THE DREAMERS OF DAY ARE DANGEROUS MEN, FOR THEY MAY ACT THEIR DREAMS WITH OPEN EYES, TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE.”

—T.E. LAWRENCE

Before we start on a project, we need a rapid and intense process for getting collaborative and setting up for success.

In the previous chapters, we looked at the philosophy behind agile. We talked about why design in its current incarnation is likely to become an endangered species and made a case for doing design differently. Now let’s turn to the practical question of how to make this a reality. In this chapter, we’ll look at how we are going to get a new agile project ...