Below-listed are recommendations collected to address the challenge of completing creative design to a point that front-end/UI developers can start implementation.
Envisioning-related
Define "done" from a creative design perspective - strike a balance between good enough and perfect. Can time-box design effort.
Planning-related
1. Prioritize the Product Backlog (!!!). Advantage: design team gets a heads up on highest priority user stories. The author of this wiki page needs to educate her management that we're the only one at this conference that does not prioritize their backlog (it's a priority bucket).
2. Side bar re: how to motivate management/Product to prioritize the backlog:
3. Help product owners & creative designers break a page down into smaller components (user stories).
4. These user stories can be implemented and demonstrated to everyone on the team in pieces instead of waiting for a full page demo.
5. Create a "sprint 0" whereby creative design's user stories are completed in "sprint 0" in preparation for a subsequent sprint.
6. Product owners can...
7. Create and maintain a style guide for a common reference