Read an interesting article on Wired today: http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71438-0.html?tw=wn_index_5 It's in regards to a simple "feature" in Apple's...
Hello Everyone, Diaspar Software, ProjectSuccess, GreenPepper™ and Pyxis are proud to present our 3rd installment of the XP Day North America series, XP Day ...
I'm suprised no one's posted about this yet: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/283686_software04.html This is an article about the office space that the...
[ Sorry for any duplicates -- Jared ] Greetings, I go to 20+ conferences a year and while many of the conferences have excellent programs, I often find myself...
I've been reading Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think and he references a 1995 paper on browser behaviour that indicates 40.6% of browser actions are the Back...
Code Improvement: Create Designs With Curb Appeal By Jeff Grover and Zhon Johansen Well-designed software is a joy to use. However, pages of preliminary ...
(responding to Jeff) ... That sounds fine so far. Would be good if we could cut some of the 'fiddle' out of the UI work so it gets more predictable - is there...
(responding to Alex) ... Hmm... maybe you'd have a different opinion if you kept the design simple, but I guess you will have to try it for yourself for a...
Just logged in this morning, and saw the long thread on code as documentation. In there were bits of back and forth about quality of code. In the subject line...
Hi everyone: I was a CHI a few weeks ago, and at the panel on Agile Development there were some very interesting discussions. I've been mulling over some...
(responding to Jeff) ... I believe we need to soften all these boundaries. I've seen many combinations, including people working part time as customer, part...
(responding to Jeff) ... I was okay until this last sentence. Pressure for getting it right each iteration okay. We like to meet our comitments. But the...
Any time a make a mistake, I make it and its impact very visible to those affected. I then make very visible what I'm doing to fix the problem. Though, if...
Hello Everyone, Diaspar Software (founded by J.B. Rainsberger) and ProjectSuccess are proud to present our 3rd installment of the XP Day North America series,...
Dear friends - I'm sending this message to let you know that my new book on customer driven innovation, Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products...
Hello, all, I've just read a woderful book on facilitating retrospectives! Congratulations, Diana and Esther. "Agile Retrospecitves - Making Good Teams Great"...
Anyone have any recommendations (or recommended resources) for clarifying the BA role and the Usability Specialist role in an Agile-esque project? As the...
(responding to Lylan) ... Do you get the same type of information from the two sources, or do you get priorities (what to do) from Business Decision Maker, and...
Here is my first ever question on the discussion group, I try to get the most of my Tablet PC (X41) but it seam that there is a lack of software or maybe there...
Here's another one in the vein of X vs Y. Back in May, I faciliated a short Agile-UCD exercise à la Jeff Patton, at the Ottawa XP chapter. The exercise used...
(responding to Dave) ... Agreed. Just remember that we would still want rapid feedback from the customers even if we can't get the money from them straight...
All: As the moderator of the list, I get to see the number of people joining, and the reasons they give for joining. I've observed a large number of people...
If you are going to be in Nashua, NH , this Wednesday August 23rd , consider yourself invited! A few of us decided to end the day at the Country Tavern . ...
We are adopting Scrum or at least an agile development method. Scrum seems to be the method of choice. In Scrum, user stories are the things that get developed...
[Sorry for duplicate: Got the date wrong in the first one. - Jared] Greetings, If you find yourself in the Washington, DC area Wednesday evening, August 16, I...
[Apologies if you get more than one of these. - J] Greetings, If you find yourself in the Washington, DC area Wednesday evening, August 15,I want to invite you...
[All - please excuse the event promotion - and self promotion for that matter, but it's on topic.] Jared Spool's UI11 conference is Cambridge, MA October 9-11...
(responding to Jeff) ... This is one point where I like using UML's Use case symbols - you know, the oval one with the stick man outside. That is a Use Case...
(responding to Robin) I've just picked out two bits of your posting... ... These both have a whiff about them of problems with the 'conversation' part of...
