UXDX Community:Helsinki

Working in the VR education industry requires constant adaptation across a growing global team at Labster. Team members are empowered to dictate their own responsibilities and time, while routinely taking on new professional roles as the team's purpose grows.
How does Labster change their workflows and best practices on the fly while maintaining high levels of alignment between team members around the world? A holacratic software toolbox that not just enables but encourages growth, change and team motivation will be presented.

One of Yousician big drivers as a company is to seek an even better way to collaborate across design and agile development, in a growing organization. Harri Kiljander, VP of Design at Yousician will look at what his current and previous teams in F-Secure Corporation in Helsinki did to improve how design and development can work even better together.

Making decisions is hard. It can take a lot of time to make decisions, while not making them bottlenecks and delays work. Working on both client projects and developing our business at Frantic we have thought a lot about making decisions, and how to make more and better decisions.
This thinking has evolved into a story about finding the First Good Cafe.
It is a playful framework to help thinking about what are the important decisions and how to make them. Making decisions, after all, is crucial in almost any kind of organization, team and work (and getting coffee).

How can a seemingly isolated UX decision lead into changing nearly everything in the way a company develops its products?
Suunto is a global sports wearables brand that has been praised for its robust, beautifully designed watches and instruments since 1936. The R&D operational focus was always on running effective projects with a clear start and end. However, everything changed with the sudden realization that the users behaved very differently than was anticipated: they went mobile. Through developing a new native app, the company ended up touching almost all areas of operations and learned a lot.
Here’s the story.

Moving product pipelines from one team to another, from one department to another, from one country to another is a challenging and common task in a dynamic environment - especially in big companies with many teams where projects can move back and forth due to internal structure changes, teams merge and split, etc. The Zalando team will share their approach and practices they use to make those migrations smooth. The team will provide you with insights into how this works at scale at Zalando, what are the technical and non-technical challenges are - from moving parts of such migrations, timelines, cross team collaboration aspects, rolling out to production when you are not an original owner of the system.

In this talk, Jussi will discuss multiple product launches aimed at improving our customer experience and how the team processes worked towards continuous delivery. Providing the team with full front-end freedom to build the personalised shopping experiences our customers want. Processes of developers, designers, product owners, scrum masters, business owners, other stakeholders, partners and suppliers all working towards the same goal. Discussing the outcome to date and future road to success

Working as product teams delivers better results but making the shift involves changing how teams and companies work - and change is hard.

How do we convince people that we have thought through the implications of the changes that we are proposing without getting bogged down in months of analysis, meetings and pointless whiteboard strategising.

In this talk Rory will give an introduction to the UXDX framework, which is the result of years of hands on experience helping teams to make the transition from projects to products.