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7606 Adrian Howard
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Mar 26, 2013
4:09 pm
I'm moderately the certain that the term "user story" came out of the XP crowd (possibly via being called "customer stories" first - my memory is poor). The...
7607 spbyh Send Email Mar 27, 2013
1:57 am
I may have some of the original WIKI postings and emails from the CCC project back in the 90s where the term was used by Beck, Jeffries, Astels, Cunningham, et...
7608 spbyh Send Email Mar 27, 2013
2:09 am
Just a bit more. In 1989 Ward Cunningham and Kent Beck (then at Apple) gave a paper at OOPSLA89 which included the concept of the CRC card. I suspect that the...
7609 Gerard Meszaros
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Mar 27, 2013
3:35 am
I was a member of the Hillside Group along with Kent Beck and Ward Cunningham in 1995/1996 and was present at the first 4 PLOP conferences. The following is my...
7610 Adam Sroka
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Mar 27, 2013
4:03 am
I can't remember who said it or the exact context, but I remember hearing that Ward and Kent really liked using cards for a variety of different things and...
7611 William Hudson
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Mar 27, 2013
11:34 am
Many thanks to Steve, Gerard and Adam for their helpful additions. As an OO developer in the 1990's I have heard of CRC cards, but it seems something of a jump...
7612 Adrian Howard
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Mar 27, 2013
11:38 am
Hey William, ... That's an interesting statement to me. Could you expand upon it? Adrian -- http://quietstars.com adrianh@......
7613 William Hudson
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Mar 27, 2013
12:03 pm
A role is a systemizing concept so really makes no allowance for needs of the individual. Using it to represent users glosses over many of the inter-role...
7614 Adrian Howard
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Mar 27, 2013
12:10 pm
I'd question whether the role slot in user stories often gets used in that way. The use-case "role" and the user story "role" tend to be used fairly...
7615 William Hudson
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Mar 27, 2013
12:22 pm
Agilists who know little or nothing about usability/UCD do try to take roles literally. I was talking with a client just a couple of weeks ago who pointed this...
7616 Adrian Howard
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Mar 27, 2013
12:29 pm
... My experiences differ. It does happen - of course - but my experiences of teams, even those without UX input, is that the roles are more often treated as...
7617 Larry Constantine
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Mar 27, 2013
1:06 pm
... the individual. Using it to represent users glosses over many of the inter-role issues like role ambiguity, role incompatibility, role conflict and so on....
7618 Adrian Howard
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Mar 27, 2013
1:59 pm
Hey folks, This just came up on the anthrodesign mailing list - and thought it would be of interest to folk here. Cheers, Adrian (forwarded with permission...
7619 William Hudson
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Mar 27, 2013
2:09 pm
Thanks, Larry. Very interesting. Do you know when Rebecca first started talking about roles? I have a paper here from Jacobson dated 1987 that describes their...
7620 Gerard Meszaros
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Mar 27, 2013
3:57 pm
... Yes, they used cards for all sorts of purposes including organizing presentations by putting each thing they wanted to talk about onto a card. Easy to...
7621 Tiago Silva da Silva
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Apr 5, 2013
8:23 am
Hello! What are the challenges you are currently facing in the use of Agile and Lean approach in your company or project? The South American agility event as...
7622 William Hudson
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Apr 5, 2013
8:45 am
(Apologies if you receive this more than once.) We are running a very brief (30-second) survey on user requirement methods such as use cases and user stories...
7623 paritoshc1 Send Email Apr 11, 2013
1:07 pm
Hello Everyone, I am familiar with personas as Cooper describes in About Face, but am just getting started with Agile. Building real research based personas is...
7624 William Hudson
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Apr 11, 2013
1:13 pm
In my mind, 2 or 3 weeks is plenty of time to do user research and develop personas. In fact I would go as far to say that for most systems, spending more than...
7625 lou schwartz
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Apr 11, 2013
2:42 pm
Hi, you should be able to rely on the product owner's knowledge of users. A first brainstorming can help you to identify the main personas, the ones you will...
7626 Jonathan Kern
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Apr 11, 2013
2:49 pm
good advice Lou… especially the part about even treating personas in an incremental fashion. also can check out Jeff Patton's Story Mapping stuff… ...
7627 Larry Constantine
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Apr 11, 2013
4:28 pm
Hi Paritosh, You are correct about personas. For agile design and development, there are better approaches. The first is to carry out model-driven inquiry...
7628 joshseiden Send Email Apr 12, 2013
2:59 pm
I just want to chime in with 98% endorsement of what Larry says here. I made a lot of Cooper style personas when I worked at Cooper. I disagree with Larry that...
7629 dina salah
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Apr 12, 2013
3:24 pm
Hi, Hope all is well with you. XP 2013 is running a workshop on integrating agile and user centred design. The workshop will be accepting submissions in the...
7630 desireesy Send Email Apr 12, 2013
5:08 pm
Paritosh, I think the way to approach agile personas is to not think of building personas as a heavy, up-front activity. All of the ideas mentioned so far are...
7631 carl myhill
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May 10, 2013
10:46 am
Hi Im a UXer collaborating with an Agile guru on a talk next week. I wonder if there have been any excellent presentations on the topic recently. The best one...
7632 Lane Halley
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May 10, 2013
5:32 pm
Hello Carl! Since Lynne and Desiree published "Adapting Usability Investigations for Agile User Centered Design" 2007 ...
7633 dina salah
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May 13, 2013
12:35 pm
Hi, I have organized a workshop on the agile usability earlier this year. Kindly find the power point presentations of most of the workshop sessions in the...
7634 dina salah
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May 13, 2013
12:36 pm
  Hi, Hope all is well with you. XP 2013 is running a workshop on integrating agile and user centred design. The workshop will be accepting submissions in the...
7635 William Hudson
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May 13, 2013
12:45 pm
Hi, Carl. I hope you're well. There's an article I wrote a little while back about UCD & XP as a conversation between the two sides. It was published in Cutter...
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