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...
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spbyh
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...
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spbyh
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...
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Gerard Meszaros
gmkayaker
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...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
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...
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William Hudson
william.syntagm
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...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
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@......
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William Hudson
william.syntagm
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...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
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...
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William Hudson
william.syntagm
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...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
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...
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Larry Constantine
foruse1
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....
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
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...
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William Hudson
william.syntagm
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...
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Gerard Meszaros
gmkayaker
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...
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Tiago Silva da Silva
tiago.silvad...
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...
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William Hudson
william.syntagm
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...
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paritoshc1
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...
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William Hudson
william.syntagm
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...
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lou schwartz
lou_schwartz
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...
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Jonathan Kern
jonkernpa
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… ...
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Larry Constantine
foruse1
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...
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joshseiden
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...
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dina salah
dina_salah_e...
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...
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desireesy
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...
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carl myhill
carlmyhill
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...
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Lane Halley
lanehalley
May 10, 2013 5:32 pm
Hello Carl! Since Lynne and Desiree published "Adapting Usability Investigations for Agile User Centered Design" 2007 ...
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dina salah
dina_salah_e...
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...
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dina salah
dina_salah_e...
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...
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William Hudson
william.syntagm
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...
