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Hello I am afraid if I'm too late to answering your request. I have two of your previously published books(BSA, JSP) and liked both. I am very much interested...
In a recent pool, the Methods & Tools newsletter asked the following question: At what stage is the agile approach (XP,Scrum, FDD, ...) adoption at your...
Hi all: A curious thing has been happening. Membership of this group has continuously increased. I get to see the messages people attach as they join. I'm...
Well I am not sure how "agitated" this post will make anyone, but I did want to share a process that we have been trying out that might help usability teams...
[Please excuse this self promotion - but at least it's on topic] I'll be at XP2005 starting June 18th and have a tutorial on doing user experience work in...
Alexandra, I'd like to hear more about usability at Alias. I do a fair amount of 3d work as a "hobby", so I'm familiar with Maya (though I admit to being a 3ds...
Hi there folks - Boy, who could resist a goad like that? I'm a usability engineer at a Northwest software company with about 400 people. We have several dev...
... As long as you're asking, sure! A while back, a usability expert who's a also a good friend pointed me to a discussion on the mailing list SIGIA-L about...
At Alias we have a usability team of 7 people plus a co-op or intern for prototyping. We work on all the new projects in the company, usually in pairs. Our...
Hi, I'm a XP coach and sometime project manager, so I'll respond. I agree with all you've said. Someone once said "A technique is something you use instead of...
Hi, Bruce! Good post. I wanted to add one thing to what you said. ... I think I'd add the word "sustainably" to that sentence. One possible mistake that people...
One possible mistake that people can make in getting more agile is that they'll adopt the appealing practices (like letting people completely change the plan...
... William - a very good (and true) point. I see this happening in our organization. Making real change is very hard. So people stop after the easy bit -...
... Well, I must confess that I get most of my clients just after they've had some sort of big unpleasant experience, so I think the rock-bottom moment of...
... I would say that is part of the problem. If I were to hazard a guess I would say that most of our organizations are running extremely "lean" in terms of...
... And I believe many people here thrive on that. It is the "lone hero" mentality. Traditionally this organization has rewarded that behaviour, so why would...
The "seeking agitator" thread has been going on about people picking the easy parts of an agile methodology, not doing the rigid parts, and then wondering why...
... Yes, I've certainly had that discussion many times. There are three approaches I've used to tackle that. One is to ask them, "Efficiency on what scale?"...
Hi, Andrew! Interesting questions. Here's my take on them. ... I think it's possible to start it without one; I've seen successful agile adoptions that way....
Hi folks - Here in the Seattle area I will be presenting to the Product Management Consortium on Wednesday on effective usability in Agile environments. I ...
There are a bunch of articles on/around Agile/HCI in this month's Carleton Uni Hot Topics. * Agile Development and User Interaction: The Story So Far *...
Hi, I'm a member of a Usability Team at MIT and I will be leading an idea market at the UPA conference in Montreal on Wednesday afternoon (June 29) on the...
Thanks for the publicity for our newsletter articles! Two things by way of followup: 1) The editor of our newsletter has asked me to organise a second issue on...
I'm not a TA but I work very closely with the ones at my company. I guess my first question would have to be: Do you have anyone doing usability at your...
Lynn Miller
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Jun 28, 2005 6:44 pm
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... Sometimes it is good to 'refactor' a part of the UI. Let's take the opening metaphor as in Jared Spool's article on "Designing Embraceable Change" ...
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