- Posted by Lucy Spence
- July 6th, 2007
- Posted in agile development, web teams
- Next: There is only one main priority and it is the web team
Has anyone else noticed the buzz around “Agile” development and user centred design (UCD)/user experience (UX) at the moment? If you’re part of a web team, you should probably be paying attention.
If you haven’t, below are a few links to recent documents talking about how the two come together. At the moment, if there is one key failing I can see for web teams, it is that most of the time software development is being discussed - not live websites. That’s an issue that will be pick up and addressed here in future posts…
However, this is a topic that will only get more coverage over the coming months and years. So if you’ve not got into Agile yet, here are some interesting starting points:
Integrating UXD with Agile–free whitepaper
The Pathfinder User Experience Design team has written and published a whitepaper that was recently distributed at the annual Software 500 Conference in Boston, MA. The paper will show you how to combine Agile and UXD practices to get higher acceptance, fewer support calls, and return customers as well as define four key places in an agile development process where you can improve project success by integrating UXD practices into the Agile software development cycle.
Adapting Usability Investigations for Agile User-Centered Design
When Autodesk chose to adopt an Agile development process for new products, their User Experience Team took the opportunity to adjust, and consequently improve, their user-centered design (UCD) practices.
User Centred Design and Agile Development
Clearleft is a UCD, or User Centred Design consultancy. They’ve been designing a lot of interesting web applications recently, so Ruby on Rails seemed like a natural choice of development technology. One of the interesting things about working with Rails developers is their love of agile development.
User Experience Activities on Agile Development Projects
This article presents a coherent strategy for bringing usability practices into agile project.
Friday, July 6th, 2007 at 2:08 pm | Categories: agile development, web teams
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