Agile research practices

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

• describe agile working and the roles in a multidisciplinary digital team

2. Working

You can:

• understand and explain the benefits and limitations of agile working
• design and conduct your research so the findings can be embedded into an agile workflow
• understand and work with the different roles in a multidisciplinary digital team to plan and do user research

3. Practitioner

You can:

• advocate for agile working
• adapt how you design and conduct research to respond to the complexity of the product environment
• understand the strategic decisions the team needs to make so you can design appropriate research
• influence decisions about priorities and agile processes in the team

4. Expert

You can:

• advocate for agile working at the organisational level and with senior stakeholders
• help organisations adopt agile research practices
• set standards and expectations of how research insights should be delivered to support delivery by agile teams
• coach and guide other user researchers to adopt agile ways of working

Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.

Closest ESCO skills

• Agile project management (broad match)
• iterative development (broad match)

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