The Balanced Team Blog

Bored with missing the fun US Balanced Team events? Want a one or two day UK Balanced Team conference? Then you should fill in this 3 question survey now. Don’t know what Balanced Team is about? Go read the history of Balanced Team and check out the Balanced Team 2011 and Balanced Team 2012 conferences. [...]

Balanced Team 2012 Many thanks to our 2012 event sponsors: IDEO, Carbon Five, Mutually Human, Proof, Atomic Object, Sapient Nitro, Groupon, { New Context }, UIE and Lean Dog. The event was much richer for your support and participation. Conference Partner Diamond Sponsors Platinum Sponsors Gold Sponsors

Here’s a short video of highlights from the closing circle at Balanced Team 2012 in Chicago. Many thanks to Balanced Team member Anticio Duke (@onlyaduke) for filming and producing this video!

At the recent Balanced Team conference in Chicago, a popular theme was “broken comb people.” In response to the idea of the “T-shaped designer” who has deep expertise in one area and familiarity with many areas, Jared Spool proposed that modern teams require people with wider range of functional skills. At the un-conference portion of [...]

We’re excited to announce our next Balanced Team conference in Chicago! The conference runs Friday evening, June 22 through Sunday afternoon, June 24 at IDEO’s offices at 626 W Jackson Blvd (thanks, IDEO!). See Lanyard.com for the conference schedule. We suggest that you book accommodations early, Chicago is full of summer conferences. The theme of [...]

Balanced Team is sponsoring an evening event March 11, 2011 in Austin TX during SxSW interactive. Please join us for spirited conversation, engaging lightning talks, tasty drinks and snacks on the roof deck and a round of fabulous door prizes. Thanks to our fantastic sponsors, Adaptive Path, UIE, {new context}, Rosenfeld Media and LUXr! To [...]

I started a roundup of blog posts created by participants in last weekend’s event. Let me know if you see more! Josh Seiden, LUXr “Balanced Team, September 2011” Shawn Crowley, Atomic Object “Balanced Team Conference 2011” Bo Campbell “Diplomacy, the greatest UX asset“

If you’re interested in following along with the event, please check out these links: We’re on the Lanyard social conference directory. We’re streaming (and archiving) video from the event at UStream. Our twitter hashcode is #balconf Update: Please see the resources page for a full list

We we asked the registered participants of the Balanced Team Conference to propose topics for the event. These are some of the proposals that attracted the most interest from the community. The list below contains a rich and interesting mix of facilitated conversations, stories, best practices and hands-on techniques from some of the leading practitioners [...]

We’re pleased to announce the first Balanced Team Conference. This event builds on our previous Agile UX retreat events, and represents the continuing growth and energy surrounding the balanced team thinking and movement, of cross-disciplinary whole-team work for healthy and successful teams. Conference Theme: Getting Practical During previous retreats, our focus has been on gaining [...]