Information radiators are an essential component of the team room, supporting overall awareness by the team.
At V1, our most critical screen display is our continuous integration server display of build status, but there are other views: recent changes, the story board, our project dashboard, etc. that are handy to keep in plain view.
To this end, [...]
I’m looking forward to attending the Usability Professional’s Association (UPA) conference next week. There’s a slew of agile focused events.
I’m participating in the Best Practices of UCD in AgileWorkshop on Monday, organized by Cindy Lu, Lynn Miller (DBLP, ‘05 podcast), and Thyra Rauch (I-D).
Here’s an excerpt from my position paper for the workshop on [...]
Jurgen Appelo in the .nl has conducted a survey on agile practices. 341 people responded, solicited via Jurgen’s blog and twitter. Read more at blog posts 1, 2, & 3. Participants were asked about the agility of different software development practices as well as their importance and degree of application.
At VersionOne, we [...]
The focus of the user experience profession, and notably the information architecture and interaction design specialties, on deliverables is a key source of conflict with agile methodologies. The agile principle of “the last responsible moment” (more) for decisions result in one of the most common dialogues about UX in agile being agilists rejecting the [...]
There’s been a remarkable amount of dialogue lately on user experience design and agile recently. I’ve struggled to do the dialogue justice, but in the meantime I’ve taken one of the key points to heart: we should be focused on adapting traditional methods to a more agile cycle. To that end, here’s a missive both [...]
While I didn’t get to attend many talks at Agile Dev Practices due to great number of customers and new leads who were willing to participate in a round of usability testing (thanks!), in looking through the proceedings the deck for “From Concept to Backlog: What Happens Before Iteration 0” by Gerard Meszaros resonated to [...]
Adventures in User Experience and UI Engineering in Agile from Andy Edmonds, most recently working as UX Lead at agile tool vendor VersionOne.
The opinions expressed here are solely my own
