How UX / UI designers can take Boost for a test drive. Plus, Agile planning: how to make the right plans at the right time.

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20 April 2021

Making plans

Here’s our latest selection of news, tools, tips and ideas for ways you can make a bigger impact every day.

  • Hiring evening for UX / UI designers
  • Agile planning — peeling back the layers
Boost designer collaborating with his team.

Got designs on working at Boost? Take us for a test drive

On Thursday 13 May we’re running a collaborative hiring evening for UX / UI designers who are interested in working here at Boost.

You can find out more about the hiring evening and our recruitment process here (PDF).

The hiring evening is your chance to see if Boost’s award-winning culture is right for you. There’ll be nibbles, you’ll get to meet the team and then you’ll run through some paired collaborative exercises.

For Boost, it’s a chance to learn more about you and how you work with others. It means our whole team has a say in who we hire and it will help us build a team who share the same purpose and values.

Register for our UX / UI designer test-drive  →

Agile planning — peeling back the layers

There’s a myth that Agile ignores planning. In fact, Agile has a strong focus on planning. Rather than doing all the planning upfront, in Agile you do more detailed planning when you have more detailed information. You adjust your plans based on what you learn about your product and your users by delivering working solutions in short iterations.

The planning onion shows different levels of planning:

Product planning onion showing the levels of planning in Agile: Product vision, Product roadmap, Release plan, Iteration plan and Daily plan

Product vision

Explains why you’re building the product. Describes how your product will make the world a better place, showing how it will help your customers and achieve the strategic goals of your organisation.

Product roadmap

Breaks down the vision and maps out the steps along the way to achieve it.

Release plan

A prioritised backlog of features that represent smaller plans driving toward the product vision.

Iteration plan

A subset of the release plan stories that will be done in the very next iteration or sprint.

Daily plan

The plan for the day (talked about at the daily stand up).

Project planning workshop guide

Our Agile discovery workshop guide shows you how to go from your Product vision to being ready for your first iteration, all in a single day.

The project planning workshop made simple: step-by-step guide  →

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