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, [...]
Quiet times in blog land as we’ve been busy in green field development with a new feedback platform for the V1 product line. I’ve been writing more code than normal and was greatly facilitated by using jQuery and jQueryUI.
Using jQueryUI’s inline modal, we support a seamless transition from non-logged-in state to logged-in even [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
