UXDX Community:Functional Programming and Aligning Stakeholders

Too often we start our projects with a brief and vague direction, and without even understanding what our stakeholders really want. Sometimes they don't really know, either! In this workshop, Creative Director Cindy Brummer will guide you through a vision session, what it is, why you should run one and how a vision session can align the product and keep everyone focused on the project.

This session will understand how to:

• Identify key stakeholders early
• How to setup alignment early
• Running a vision session - Stakeholder Journey Mapping
• Mitigating risk: How to avoid conflict and consequences

Are you familiar with the concept of functional programming? A process of building software avoiding everything that could be a problem in the future, such as shared state, mutable data and side effects, only by composing pure math functions. I had never put a thought in that until I discovered the enlightening and overwhelming way of programming in Clojure.