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

Category:

• Science & Tech
• Learning & Education

Starring:

• Jose Caballer
• Aure Gimon

Directed by:

• Ian Hinck
• Branden Lymer

Produced by:

• Matt Raub
• Ryan Summers

Tags:

• Groop Skool
• digital agency
• webdesign
• Web Design
• Groop
• Brand
• Strategy
• Jose Caballer
• Websites
• Marketing
• Design Basics
• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• Adobe
• How-To
• WordPress
• Word Press
• CSS
• HTML
• Java
• Instructional
• dreamweaver
• ThisWeekIn.com
• This Week In
• Drupal
• sitemap
• agile
• scrum
• backlog
• color theory
• typography
• Robert Haydock
• Eric Patrick
• Seth Godin
• Ship It
• GoToMeeting