Lean UX and Scrum - Leading Approaches to Agile Design and Agile Development Successfully Combined: A Preparation for the "Professional Scrum with User Experience (PSU I)" Certification Exam.

Table of Contents

Preliminary note

Foreword

Introduction to Lean UX

The principles of Lean UX

Principles for the organization of the teams

Principles of corporate culture

Principles of the approach

The Lean UX Process

Hypothesizing

Persona building

Collaborative design

The Charette process

The use of (existing) design systems

MVP and experiments

MVP approach and Lean Startup

Experiments on different levels

Feedback and research

Dual-Track Agile

Discovery Track

Delivery Track

Benefit

Combine Lean UX and Scrum

Product Backlog

Sprint Planning

Sprint Backlog / Sprint Execution

The Scrum Team

The Sprint Review

Lean UX and Agile UX

Lean UX in the organization

Mindset, vision, strategy and goals

Implementation: processes and continuous improvements

Leadership at all levels

The theory X and the theory Y

Leadership at all levels

The Scrum.org PSU Certification

Preliminary note

This book was written based on various sources and years of experience in using Scrum and various other agile methodologies and frameworks, including Lean UX and Design Thinking. Its content reflects the author's experience only and has not been authorized or released by the rights holders or developers of said methodologies. Thus, the content has no official character. Nevertheless, the content of this book has been compiled in such a way that it is suitable as a source for preparing for the Professional Scrum™ with User Experience (PSU I) certification exam. The corresponding trademark is owned by Scrum.org. Further use of trademark identification and the like has been omitted from the text. However, they are always considered to be included.

The author cannot assume any guarantees for the further developments of the certifier regarding exam contents (questions, rules). The contents of this book were created at the time of writing based on the information available and prepared to the best of our knowledge for the readership and potential examinees of the said certification exam.

This text deliberately does not delve into the basics of understanding Scrum. Rather, it is assumed that people seeking PSU-I certification have sufficient knowledge of Scrum, such as is presented in the context of PSM, PSPO or PSD certifications. If you do not have such knowledge, acquiring this basic knowledge is recommended for the full benefit of the book content.

Foreword

Generalization is not a new phenomenon. Often, when we think of concepts, we actually mean specific examples that belong to those concepts. For example, when we think of tool most people first think of hammer, when we think of color we think of red, or when we think of instrument we think of violin.

We know it quite similarly in the agile context. When talking about an agile method, many people think of Scrum, although Scrum is not characterized as a method, but as a framework and several hundred other agile approaches, methods and frameworks are known. In the same way, a large number of people in Germany think of Design Thinking when they hear the keyword agile innovation method - in some other countries, there are partly other methods, frameworks and approaches, which already proves that Design Thinking is not remotely the only agile innovation method.

Since February 2019, Scrum.org, one of the world's leading certification institutes for Scrum professionals, has been offering a certification with the short name PSU (Professional Scrum with User Experience), which has already been obtained by more than 1500 people by fall 2021. The focus is on