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 [...]
Agile brings a focus on the team as a unit and a lack of willingness to block, or plan for dependencies, around specialists. The term “generalizing specialists” describes the goal for agile team members to become less diversified in the key skills of producing quality software.
A recent heated thread on the Agile-Usability discussion list [...]
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 [...]
What happens when a cognitive psychologist + web UI engineer with extensive experience in user research is immersed in a high performance agile team? Only time will tell…
With the Scrum Master certification accomplished and a chance to bring Jeff Sutherland in the usability lab, working at VersionOne is providing a Ivy League education in Agile [...]
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
