From the course: Agile UX Research
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Team structures
- Given that UXers have such diverse skills and shouldn't be assessing their own work, how should they be incorporated into agile teams? I've seen the following team structures be most successful. Two full UX professionals embedded in each cross-functional team. One who focuses more on research and one who focuses more on design. The team members definitely have some skill overlap and collaborate on sketches, prototypes, and actually running research, but there is separation of who owns visuals and who owns research. Both the researcher and designer are fully dedicated team members, participating in all team activities like stand-ups and retrospective meetings. In this case, I recommend that the researchers split their efforts between short-term experimentation and validation and ongoing exploratory research. When that's not an option, I recommend that each team has a full-time designer and a research unit that floats between the teams. Researchers can and still should collaborate…
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