From the course: UX Research for Agile Teams
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Research cadence
- When setting teams and structures, organizations also need to consider balancing foundational, generative UX research with the immediate investigation needs of the team. Foundational research includes things like doing interviews or ethnographic studies to deeply understand your user base, their context, their evolving needs, and your opportunities to serve them. This is also sometimes called generative research and helps you understand and define the problems you're trying to solve. In traditional development approaches, foundation of research is that only the beginning of the project to provide direction. There is sometimes a push for this kind of research to be squeezed into a sprint zero, which is the dedicated setup time before any tangible progress is made in the Scrum process. I think it's useful to start research here, but condensing research activities to a single sprint zero is essentially just a shortened version of waterfall practices. It makes sense to continue to do…
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