Today I came across an idea that intrigued me: Hatch Day. The idea is to get together people who have ideas about projects they want to start or move forward with people who like working on projects - and then to present a prototype at the end of it.
I’m always a fan of finding ways to move projects forward more quickly, and I can’t help but wonder what it would be like to do a day like this within a company. You could even have a final stage of assessing the prototypes by merit/commercial return, and viola - you’ve got yourself a development plan.
It certainly would be a novel way of tackling some of the difficulties around balancing different demands from the business.
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…
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