Greetings, The San Diego chapters of SIGCHI and UPA are sponsoring an Agile and UCD panel discussion Wednesday, March 15th, from 6-8 PM at Intuit, 6220...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Mar 8, 2006 6:42 am
... Heh. If only there were some way designers could get feedback earlier... William...
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Jeff Patton
jeff621
Mar 9, 2006 7:34 am
A while back - a long while back now - I posted something saying my company, ThoughtWorks, was looking for UCD-types. Well, for a variety of reasons, things...
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t_vo
Mar 10, 2006 3:03 pm
I am an Interaction Designer at a medium sized software company. We develop very complex design software for construction professionals. There is almost no...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Mar 10, 2006 8:02 pm
... One of my secret techniques for switching people over is to do the agile stuff in parallel. For example, with a big spec, I'll make up the cards and...
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Jared M. Spool
jmspool
Mar 10, 2006 9:21 pm
[Sorry for any duplication] If you find yourself in the Washington DC area on Tuesday evening, March 14, or the Philadelphia area on Thursday evening, March...
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Ken Auer
kauerrolemodel
Mar 11, 2006 3:54 am
Not to toot my own horn, but there is a section on this in the book I co-authored with Roy Miller "Extreme Programming Applied: Playing to Win" including a...
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Cory Foy
cory_foy
Mar 11, 2006 4:20 am
... I know this doesn't exactly answer your question, but back in September there was an interesting thread on the XP list about applying XP practices to...
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Tobias Mayer
tobiasgmayer
Mar 11, 2006 12:17 pm
Hi t_vo (got a real name?), It is not so much the practices (such as the writing of big documents) that will be a block to agile, it is the mindset of the...
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Tobias Mayer
tobiasgmayer
Mar 11, 2006 12:34 pm
Hmm.. I realise that my earlier response begs the question. If the organization does not want to become Agile then they will not consider adopting Scrum. ...
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Deb
debhart9
Mar 11, 2006 5:19 pm
Trouble with the "stealth approach" (yes, I've done it too) is the problem of constraints. Each constraint resolved reveals another as Tobias indicates. When...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Mar 14, 2006 5:28 pm
Hi everyone, Will anyone from this list be in Montreal in April for CHI 2006? I will. If anybody else is going, maybe we could arrange to meet at some point. ...
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Aviva Rosenstein
veevi_r
Mar 14, 2006 8:56 pm
I'll be there. Sounds like a great idea. Last year the folks from this list met for an Agile lunch; it'd be fun to do that again. There's all kinds of...
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Jon Meads
jonmeads
Mar 14, 2006 9:22 pm
I'll be there from Sunday evening to Friday morning but will be presenting a full-day tutorial on "Usability & Product Development". Part of the tutorial will...
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Lada Gorlenko
ladagorlenko
Mar 14, 2006 10:47 pm
Forwarded on behalf of the UPA conference committee. Apologies if you receive it more than once. ...
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Suleman Shahid
mesuleman
Mar 15, 2006 8:05 am
Hi, yea it would be nice to have 'agile' sitting during lunch. I will be there as well for a week. and what is your opinion about the panel "Agile Development:...
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Jon Meads
jonmeads
Mar 15, 2006 10:01 am
Not much is provided in terms of description beyond that it is a panel on Agile Development. It conflicts with my course so I won't be attending it. Hopefully,...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Mar 15, 2006 2:24 pm
Great stuff guys! I'm looking forward to meeting you all in person. Jeff and I are also organising for a talk at the Montreal XPAgile user group. This will be...
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Ken H. Judy
kjudy
Mar 15, 2006 2:36 pm
Hi, I'm Director of Software Development for a small Scrum/XP team at Oxygen Media in New York. We're looking to hire UI specialist to help us develop both...
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Leina
leina_elgohari
Mar 17, 2006 5:29 am
Hello, I'm a recent member to this group. I was reading some of the earlier postings and was interested in the following "...software developers who have seen...
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Dave Churchville
dchurchv
Mar 17, 2006 5:44 am
... Speaking as someone who has been involved with many successful development projects, most of which didn't have any formal usability, or I.D. personnel, I...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Mar 17, 2006 6:36 am
Welcome, Leina. ... Hi, Leina. I can think of a few times I've seen this happen happily. Factors include: * when the developers are target users * when the...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Mar 17, 2006 1:22 pm
I was reading some of the earlier postings and was interested in the following "...software developers who have seen projects succeed without specific...
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Lynn Miller
velo_friend
Mar 17, 2006 9:30 pm
Here's a longer abstract on the "Agile Development: opportunity or Fad?" panel: "The importance of integrating software engineering and HCI methods has been...
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Richard J Watt
richardjwatt
Mar 19, 2006 5:16 am
I will be out of the office starting Thu 03/16/2006 and will not return until Mon 03/20/2006. I will be out of the office starting 16/03/2006 and will not...
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Leina
leina_elgohari
Mar 19, 2006 10:26 am
I would like to hear from those who have experiences of being in a team where members (including customers)were dispersed geographically. I have worked on such...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Mar 19, 2006 10:37 am
... Agile practices help in such a situation, because it is focused on concrete deliverables and rapid iterations. However, like a long-distance love affair,...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Mar 19, 2006 7:29 pm
... That's a great way of putting it. I'm coaching two distributed agile teams now. The agile approach is definitely helping, and all concerned are happy...
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Jon Kern
jonkernpa
Mar 20, 2006 4:36 am
i conducted two long-distance love affairs... the first one didn't work. but it gave me great experience such that the second one worked. and i'm still married...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Mar 20, 2006 4:43 am
... Do the two of you ever plan to get together? Any special plans if you do? ;-> Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Know what I pray for? The strength to...
