Mat Walker – A UX persons survival guide to agile

Mat will be talking about his experiences implementing Agile and UX at the British Film Institute and the key things that UX practitioners need to consider when embarking on an Agile project. Mat will be coming from a UX/IA perspective rather than from an Agile one.

Mat is a freelance UX and Project Manager, you can find out more about him on his website or follow him at @mat_walker

Howard Sandford – UX benefits of using REST/Agile

Howard’s team built Linden Lab‘s billing engine with RESTful API interfaces for all the various clients, he will discuss how the team battled with SCRUM/Agile with teams across Europe, Singapore and the USA on a 1.5 year project, and how their back-end RESTful design helped the front-end guys deliver their presentation layer.

Follow Howard at @Howard_Sandford

Johanna Kollmann – UX & Product Owners

Johanna will share both her personal experience with Vodafone, and references to other expert practiotioners (eg Tim McCoy) with whom she’s been working on this topic.

Johanna works at EMC Consulting

You can follow Johanna at @johannakoll

Mark Plant – [talk title TBC]

[this talk will be announced later, on @uxbri]

Mark is Associate Director and Head of LabExperience at Lab49, London where he defines and designs interfaces for trading applications where 1 frequently means 1 million.

You can follow Mark: Blog, Tumblr, @uxplant

New to Agile/Scrum?

We’re assuming that most people will have a basic understanding of how Agile works so that the speakers won’t have to talk much about the process. That said, if you’re not au fait with agile you might find @hamids’ SCRUM in Under 10 Minutes video useful (scrum is a popular agile method).