Lean Frontend Engineering

By Bill Scott

Notes

• Read The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
• Lean UX
  • MVP – minimum viable product
  • Build/test/learn
  • Know when to pivot - a new/better/specialized product may me what needs to be created instead (you only know to pivot via feedback)
  • Release in small batches (iterate)
• Lean UX – 3 Key Principles
  • Shared understanding – more understanding, less documentation
  • Deep collaboration – ideas come from many voices, trust is essential
  • Continuous customer feedback – lifeblood of the team, eradicate politics
• Healthy product lifecycle
  • Discover customer insights (observe in the real world, don’t assume, get feedback)
  • Define Customer Problems (based on observations determine the problems or areas of improvement)
  • Define Solutions Concepts (determine potentially solutions)
  • Deliver and Test (implement and test the determined solutions)
• Anti-Patterns
  • Ensure the genius designer’s ideas are tested with users/customers. A genius designer may ultimately clash with another genius designer’s ideas.
  • The formation of tribes/groups of people is natural and ok, but ensure that collaboration with other tribes/groups doesn’t stagnate.
  • Newcomer, ensure they get the cadence of what is trying to be done and recognize early they fit.
  • Going Dark, working in isolation from time to time is necessary, but don’t let collaboration stagnate as a result.
  • Shared understanding, always ask what do you mean by X? Ensure jargon is understood.