Summary

Join us at Agile Yorkshire for an insightful look into transforming Europe’s largest digital health service, NHS Choices, with a user-centric approach. We’ll share how we’re putting users at the heart of the new service, our Agile delivery process, and the challenges we’ve encountered along the way. You’ll also gain practical tips on Agile and Lean UX techniques such as understanding user needs, assumption mapping, testing hypotheses, affinity sorting, task-based personas, user journey mapping, user research, and low-fidelity prototyping. Plus, we’ll tackle the ever-present topic of "legacy" in software development—why do we instinctively want to replace it, and is legacy really such a bad thing? Expect plenty of real-world insights and actionable takeaways for your own projects!

Programme

ransforming NHS Choices With Agile & Lean UX
We're in the early stages of transforming NHS Choices, Europe's largest digital health service. We'd like to tell you about how we're putting users at the heart of the new service, our ongoing delivery approach and some of the challenges we've faced along the way. We'll be sharing practical Agile and Lean UX techniques you can use to get to know your users better, including: - understanding user needs - assumption mapping - testing hypotheses - affinity sorting - task-based personas - user journey mapping - user research - low-fidelity prototyping
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Kevin Murray
Kevin is a Delivery Director at Valtech with 20 years experience in the industry. Passionate about Agile in the Public Sector, Kevin manages and oversees the successful digital transformation of GDS exemplars for the Department of Work and Pensions, including the phenomenally successful Carer's Allowance digital service. He is also highly regarded as an expert on the subject of Public Sector Agile, and permeates his working life with running for charity. From day one, Kevin has helped in shaping Valtech's approaches to integrating our proven software engineering and agile delivery capabilities with increasing user centricity, user informed development and creative practices.
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Joe McGrath
Joe works as a Delivery Manager and Team Lead at NHS Choices. He has fifteen years’ experience of working as a Developer, Architect, Technical Lead and Coach. He realised during his Physics degree that it was way more fun to write code for a local startup and play frisbee in the park. Since then he's worked in advertising and digital agencies, broadcast media and healthcare, and played frisbee in parks around the world. He's spent the last five years working in and around the NHS - helping teams to work more effectively.
Legacy Code... What's that all about?
How many times have we as programmers decided we need to replace something because it is "Legacy" or that brownfield development is not exciting. Why are all these developers churning out this stuff, and are you sure you aren't ? And is legacy a bad thing ?
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Krystan Honour
Krystan has been programming since his first computer which was a loaned ZX81. Since that time he has been writing code. Since then he has gone through Acorn Electrons, Amigas and then on to pcs. He is currently a contractor with a focus on .net and work mainly in the Yorkshire/Lancashire regions. He wakes up each day and pinches himself for being lucky enough to get a job doing what he loves