Better Software magazine Feature Article It Takes Two to Tango by Rachel Davies What every software manager should know about pair programming and how to...
... However, pairing with a usability expert will cause total disaster. <a beat> Sorry - just trying to find topicality. Has anyone ever paired with one? -- ...
Anyone who is interested in discussing Agile and UX while in Portland, please meet up at the Yahoo! booth in the exhibit hall by 1:15 on Wednesday April 06....
Announce - Book - Agile Development with Iconix Process (posted with group owners permission) By Doug Rosenberg, Mark Collins-Cope and Matt Stephens Publisher:...
Hi group - we've been silent for a while, but having talked to a few of you personally, I know you're still out there. A design/requirements specific thing has...
In my continuous quest to make everyone think about design without actually using the "d" word I have column running talking about one of my design techniques....
Hey Jeff, As usual, you've presented some great ideas. I'm a little short on time, but didn't want to wait to jump in on this. The whole issue of top...
... I have to take issue with this statement. One example: I've been working with ERP systems for the past eight years or so. With two exceptions, EVERY SINGLE...
Hi Jeff! It was great seeing you and great to meet all the other folks from the list at CHI this month. Maybe the issue is that you're concentrating on...
Whereas Cockburn and Holtzblatt would recommend starting from a user goal -- that is-- what the user's trying to acheive-- and then breaking those high level...
Hmm... I'm not sure I'd disagree with anything you and Josh have said. In my original post, I sorta glossed over how I'd normally do things. I do definitely...
Josh, These are very cool observations. I wonder though, do you think what you are seeing is a result of lack of vision during design or lack of a champion...
Thanks for the reply, Rob. Of course the answer is, "both." (What a cop out, I know!) ... This is a lack of design vision, right? They key thing here is that...
The champion is responsible for seeing that the team sticks to the plan--in other words, build the thing that the customer said, the designer translated, and...
Well, my note was about the nature of the decision making. I did not mean to imply anything about the plan duration or scope, or the frequency between planning...
Well, my note was about the nature of the decision making. I did not mean to imply anything about the plan duration or scope, or the frequency between planning...
Heh. What, me lying? ;-) Maybe I'm just being willfully blind to a lot of the groundwork i do offstage before starting the real work of developing. Yes, being...
This note comes in two parts. (A) where is the top? and (B) top-down vs bottom up. (A) where is the top? Jeff: <<think about the techniques and thought...
Thanks for the clarifications, Jeff, no trouble about the difference between task and goal --- goals exist at all levels, tasks maybe at just a few. The only...
... I think this points to what is missing from a question of top-down and bottom-up: that is the different roles and interests in a system. Without having any...
... fish ... meaningful and ... notes ... an accurate ... stands. I think we need a contextual designer to speak up and debunk what I've said. Contextual...
So, I'd wondered in an earlier thread if designers mostly work top down or bottom up, and I think my answer was "yes." That is to say, both are important, but...
... << we start by gathering clam-level details about the *existing work practice*--what people do on a day-to-day basis. We do this because people's...
I'll posit a slightly extreme position in this post, mostly for the sake of discussion, that if you are finding that people's self reported goals are...
... A reference I've carried around for a long time: "Designing the Design Process: Exploiting Opportunistic Thoughts", by Raymonde Guindon. Human-Computer...
Hugh Beyer said: " We do this because people's self-reported goals *are not reliable*--they can state some of the high-level goals, but not all, and not the...
... students have a ... exactly (one of ... proposed ... need to be ... with ... methodology? ... Yes, Larry Constantine likes to advertise that agile methods...
... I would agree with this, but I'd add that if the problem is mainly a lack of skill (rather than character, motivation, or smarts), I would strongly...
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