{"id":4952,"date":"2022-02-10T15:34:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T15:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/russellmoverley.com\/?page_id=4952"},"modified":"2022-02-17T17:42:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T17:42:19","slug":"case-study-agile-team-gets-results-fast","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/russellmoverley.com\/case-study-agile-team-gets-results-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Study: Flexible team gets results fast"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
Vdrop is a video sharing app designed to connect business leaders, sport stars and brands directly to their teams, fans and customers to create meaningful and engaging conversations through video.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Initially running as three individual apps, the brief was to envision and create a unified experience for all user levels and foresee a way to combine it all into one app.<\/p> I was drafted in to work on an existing app which looked like it was designed by developers. We went through a fast team building session to get an understanding of everyone’s strengths and sticking points.<\/p> With little to no design consideration to UX or delicate approach to understanding affordances and signifiers, the customer experience was clunky at best. But the idea was fantastic.<\/p> With the CTO leading the charge, we broke down the backlog requirements and implemented a loose scrum process to swiftly iterate version prototypes while still servicing and onboarding paying users in the live app.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t We worked fast as a team across borders in Australia and Europe. The strategy was to combine the business objectives flowing in from European stakeholders with the needs of paying customers in Australia.<\/p> In reverse, we pushed big ideas back up the chain to show the potential in the wider app idea – highlighting the forest rather than the trees.<\/p> Our ‘sprints’ were rapid. I was presenting design iterations in prototype form every few days \u2013 merging feedback from Europe with the new ideas from the app team.\u00a0<\/p> The biggest challenge we faced was communicating to the business leaders using the app for a niche purpose that there was exciting potential in commercialising the idea to make it more appealing to a wider audience.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\tResults<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t