Lynn replied to this question a while ago... I still have a question. How have any of you who are working under the Agile methodology integrating user...
... As far as I know, there is no movement or subthread in Agile to do away with user docs, or any docs that are needed. Here are a few articles regarding...
Ron, thanks so much for these links! There's a help authoring list that has been all up in arms lately... one member mentioned that his company (who has ...
... Part of the agile process is to significantly reduce the amount of internal documentation required (requirements docs, design specs, status reports, that...
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... I'd strongly agree with that. I've only noticed two big differences on my projects. The obvious one is that the docs are done incrementally and in a way...
... [snip] As you've probably already realised nobody in the agile world wants to do away with user documentation :-) Well, apart from the fact that we try and...
... Sue, just to add a couple of points to what Lynn said earlier: - If you've got a usability group, working agile is pretty rewarding because you will see...
We've been doing XP/agile for about 3 years. We dumped marketing requirement documents and product requirement documents right away. High level design...
Desiree wrote: <snip> ... I actually do this now anyways. I do it partly for people to see and evaluate the structure, and partly so that *I* know what the...
Thank you, all of you, for your great comments about how us writers fit into the Agile team. I think we've finally got the writers calmed down. They were all...
... http://www.extremeplanner.com/blog/2005/07/can-user-interface-design-be-agile.html "So for a typical agile process, you'd work closely with the customer to...
I like that terminology Philip, thinking of the UI design as "tests". I've got to go mull this over a bit. This seemingly small shift in perspective may be...
Jade, We have had some success in making UI design agile. Simplifying just a little the key is nothing more than a proper seperation of concerns. For example: ...
The annual Requirements issue of Better Software magazine is mailing on September 1, featuring Agile Requirements for Stepsister Projects. To get a free copy...
... Interesting! I agree with a lot of what he has to say. Unfortunately, this fellow seems to make the most common mistake about agile processes: because...
... You can test the GUI. You can't test usability, just as you can't (technically) test security or availability. You can test the side-effects. But I mean...
On 13 Aug 2005, at 00:06, Phlip wrote: [snip] ... [snip] I'm not quite so certain about that. There are certainly some aspects of usability that belong with...
... I agree completely. In building a UI, the lower-level stuff is too pervasive to treat it as just another kind of programming where the customer specifies...
On 15 Aug 2005, at 17:29, William Pietri wrote: [snip] ... Me to. ... [snip] Ditto. In previous years I've suggested having two roles. A User Advocate to the...
But I mean that Usability is on the Customer side, so it's exempt from YAGNI and emergent design. Design the Usability up front, in phases. -- Alain Désilets ...
All: I was lucky enough to participate in a podcast discussion on design with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock [Object Oriented design guru], and Lynn Miller [Alias' Agile...
Hi, as the author the article referenced in this topic, I've been enjoying the discussion so far. A couple of points: I'm an active practitioner of agile...
... Glad to hear it! ... Why's that? And do you feel that's just as true with more abstract usability stuff, like Interaction Design? ... Not exactly. I think...
... Glad to hear it :-) ... I'm curious - have you found agile teams better or worse than non- agile teams at producing "usable" software? I've usually found...
-- Dave Churchville wrote: My conclusion in the article was essentially that it is possible to do agile UI design, but that most of the situations I've been ...
My previous post got me thinking about this... It strikes me that a lot of the discussion in this forum has been process oriented. We talk a lot about whether...
... The answer is "the same" in my experience. I think it's entirely dependent on the skills of the team members as it relates to usability. The "agile" part...
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