Descripción de Live Website Redesign - Shiny Object Syndrome:

Working in web design requires negotiating with clients, but how do you negotiate when your client is also your boss? Host Jose Caballer discusses this issue with in-house designer (and Groop Skool alumni!) Eric Patrick. Along with co-host Aure Gimon, the team discuss the challenges of integrating a Scrum philosophy amongst an internal design team within an established corporation. Strategies for getting early buy-in from supervisors, maintaining momentum in a challenging environment, and avoiding miscommunication within a team by aligning around user stories are all discussed. Plus Aure designs a tablet interface for ThisWeekIn! 00:00 Open 03:19 Introduction to guest Eric Patrick and co-host Aure Gimon 05:16 Reality Check for the ThisWeekIn redesign 07:00 Talking about Groop Skool with recent alumni Eric 09:00 Jose tries to fight what he calls "diddle-daddle" 10:50 The ThisWeekIn team loves GoToMeeting! 12:00 Eric talks about the challenges for developing and designing in-house 17:30 Shiny object syndrome and how to protect against it. 19:00 Pitching fixed fee, variable scope projects with an agile/scrum philosophy 20:30 Mitigating risk as you pitch projects. 22:45 Dropping in on Aure's work on the ThisWeekIn main page developed for a tablet. 23:30 Launchpad conference for tablet developers: Jose is going to be there. 28:00 Why you need to read Seth Godin's Ship It immediately after this episode 31:00 Planning using scrum with index cards and timing out the development process internally 32:30 "I am the world's laziest designer": why low-fi project planning tools help keep things fluid and open in a gropu setting 37:00 "You're just a moderator, learn to listen to your client." 40:00 Apple develops for the entire lifespan of the product, not the feature set 42:00 Eric talks about how you can only design successfully once you know your user's stories 45:00 Building user story based off of Aure's work and our user profiles 47:00 Self-sufficiency as an entrepreneur and as a viewer of ThisWeekIn 49:00 Building a "culture of execution" 54:00 The team riffs on Aure's prototype design to create more user-based functionality 59:00 Groop Skool discounts for alumni and Producer's Program members