Part of being in an agile small team involves a lot of collaboration. I currently work with the product development team but also produce the product’s collateral.
Marketing
I’ve created many different digital collateral pieces for our business solutions. Click images to view .pdf (opens in a new window)
Development
“I can break anything” I often joke as I find problems with the dev implementation. Bringing real use cases when testing the products often finds problems. Fixing those problems in advance help bridge the gap for dev and sales and marketing.
My first interactions with the dev team were to develop a web ui for the company’s classification product. It involved many late night skype calls with the project analyst in Russia. Along with emails and a few conference calls with developers, this allowed for quick collaboration and turnaround for the dev team.
Our current project began with daily skype calls with the PM and the developer. Our developer took our template demo and slowly started morphing it into a truly custom built application. From the V.P.’s mouth to our ears, he coded as quickly as we could mock up and explain the vision.
Our US team has since grown to about a dozen. I help PM and the dev lead write specifications for new features and keep involved with Jira tickets, scrums and slack channels.
I was also asked to try some prototyping tools… so I’ve been familiarizing myself with JustInMind. Below was one of my first attempts. Our PM asked me to show a different more visual interactive way to drill into the data.
Training
We have just finished our ‘Training Bootcamp’. To be meaningful, I prepared by setting up real use cases for the script (and finding critical bugs along the way).
The ‘Bootcamp’ involved demos and hands-on training for the new features. The architecture had been significantly changed and setting up a product required learning a number of new processes.
We had all of 2 minutes to cheer our recent success before we got back to work for the next set of crucial features to add to our product…
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