by Rebecca | Sep 18, 2015 | Influencing Your Organization, Lean
Pardon me while I rant a little bit here. But I’ve seen this situation one too many times: New team sits down. Project sounds great. Everyone is excited. Requirements aren’t really clear, or totally defined, but who needs ’em? We’re AGILE! ...
by Rebecca | Sep 4, 2015 | Influencing Your Organization
Summer is hot enough without conflict with your colleagues on top of it. No but seriously, I hate summer. Who’s ready for fall?!?! Like summer, I would prefer to avoid conflict, if I could. I can’t, though. conflict is a natural part of the process of...
by Rebecca | Aug 28, 2015 | Influencing Your Organization, UX Skills
I’ve spent quite a few hours of my life arguing over bugs. Weeks, months. Who knows how much it adds up to? Did you know that people that identify bugs tend to rate severity dramatically higher than people who didn’t find them? So when you experience and...
by Rebecca | Aug 5, 2015 | UX Skills
I know for me, as I got more comfortable as a UX designer (and more in demand), I began to struggle to manage my time. Having one feature to focus on was one thing, but balancing two or juggling as many as six at one (crazy) time demanded developing a whole new set of...
by Rebecca | May 28, 2015 | Influencing Your Organization
Sometimes we all find ourselves on a team or project where UX hasn’t been quite estimated correctly—to put it nicely. Are you pulling your hair out feeling frustrated that you don’t have enough time to do your work? At least not to the quality level that...
