... You've definitely put your finger on a major issue. As a designer, you're well aware how much seemly tiny factors affect human behavior. Ease of...
2815
Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Jan 28, 2007 12:02 pm
Hello, William. On Friday, January 26, 2007, at 8:54:03 AM, you ... Marvelous! Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Q: How do we get to Aspen? A: Climb to the...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Jan 29, 2007 10:54 am
On 25 Jan 2007, at 18:57, Larry Constantine wrote: [snip] ... [snip] That can depend on folks definition of "draft" :-) I spent a bit over two hours sketching...
2817
Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Jan 29, 2007 4:55 pm
... That's odd since I've found agile methods very effective at web development. So many practices are much easier when you don't have to ship software to...
2818
Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Jan 29, 2007 7:57 pm
On 26 Jan 2007, at 02:47, Phlip wrote: [snip] ... [snip] Is this irony or not. I find it hard to tell. Adrian...
2819
Robert Davis
heyrobertdavis
Jan 30, 2007 2:42 am
All - many helpful points. I'm glad none of the projects in which I've been involved have gone as poorly as the "poster child" projects that are continually...
2820
Jon Kern
jonkernpa
Jan 30, 2007 12:51 pm
You have to qualify "being in the same room is more effective" -- there are lots of assumptions going on in that statement <g> Though I know what you mean,...
2821
heyrobertdavis
Jan 30, 2007 2:03 pm
snip ... for (1) software for internal users and/or, to a lesser extent (2) web businesses that start out with no customers and even one registration for a...
2822
Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Jan 30, 2007 2:44 pm
... I must admit, I have NEVER experienced even a single case where putting people far from each other improved communication between them. But I agree with...
2823
Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Jan 30, 2007 3:03 pm
... To an end user, ALL software is a means to reaching his goals. This is as much true for in-house software as it is of consumer-facing software. But you are...
2824
Phlip
phlipcpp
Jan 30, 2007 3:29 pm
... I will, sometimes, use instant-messaging to communicate with a colleague at the next desk. This _helps_ the verbal chit-chat, when the textual chat message...
2825
jchandl3
Jan 30, 2007 3:49 pm
DAXKO (www.daxko.com) is looking for a User Experience Engineer. This rapidly growing company makes software for non-profit groups like YMCAs. The full job...
2826
Leisa Reichelt
leisareichelt
Jan 30, 2007 3:50 pm
I'm a big fan of getting more than one designer in the same room, working on the same design problems. I've called it 'pair design' in the past and compared it...
2827
heyrobertdavis
Jan 30, 2007 4:17 pm
... "delivering one or two little chunks of value" will not lead to good user experience. I think on the contrary, you're more likely to achieve a good user...
2828
Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Jan 30, 2007 6:50 pm
... Oh, I see where you're coming from. Yes, I have heard of many XP teams starting out with features like "Add movie to queue" and "register on the site", and...
2829
Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Jan 31, 2007 4:28 am
Hello, Alain. On Tuesday, January 30, 2007, at 10:48:14 AM, you ... Perhaps there are more kinds of business value than just "revenue". How many can you think...
2830
William Pietri
william_pietri
Jan 31, 2007 5:48 am
... You can if qualify that if you want, but honestly, I'm not sure I do. Sure, there are pathological cases, and sure, approaches that diminish feedback and...
2831
William Pietri
william_pietri
Jan 31, 2007 6:03 am
... I suggest you flip this around. Can they afford not to get feedback from users? A developer-week of time isn't all that much development, but it's still a...
2832
William Pietri
william_pietri
Jan 31, 2007 8:25 am
... But suppose you just started with basic search on some basic movie info? That's all that IMDB began with, and people found that valuable. Further, that is...
2833
Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Jan 31, 2007 10:49 am
On 30 Jan 2007, at 18:48, Desilets, Alain wrote: [snip] ... [snip] Which isn't to say, of course, that there isn't value in getting those first steps up and...
2834
Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Jan 31, 2007 11:05 am
... Designer-developer pairs are also damn fine things in my experience Adrian...
2835
Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Jan 31, 2007 1:47 pm
... To me, until you deploy a system that consumers will buy from you or that your people can use to conduct businness better, all you have is POTENTIAL...
2836
Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Jan 31, 2007 2:27 pm
Hello, Alain. On Wednesday, January 31, 2007, at 5:46:42 AM, you ... Really? ALL we have? Does information have business value? Does the ability to better ...
2837
Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Jan 31, 2007 2:54 pm
... Information has POTENTIAL business value until you can use to have an impact on the real world (at which point it has REALISED value). And the development...
2838
Jon Kern
jonkernpa
Jan 31, 2007 2:54 pm
what i was referring to was a case where teams in the same building had a habit of fracturing into little pockets of doing their own things, leaving other team...
2839
Pascal Roy
pascal_roy_1967
Jan 31, 2007 2:55 pm
That's a great point Alain, I love it. It is very easy to forget the very real difference between the two... Pascal Roy, ing./P.Eng., PMP Vice-Président/Vice...
2840
Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Jan 31, 2007 3:15 pm
... Even when those various teams were all together in the same war room? I have seen teams located in the different parts of the same building have little...
2841
Jared M. Spool
jmspool
Jan 31, 2007 10:49 pm
... Five. There are five, including revenue. 1) Increased Revenue 2) Reduced Expenses 3) Increased Marketshare (new customers) 4) Increased Business (sales to...
2842
Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Feb 1, 2007 4:34 am
Hello, Jared. On Wednesday, January 31, 2007, at 2:49:21 PM, you ... So, for example, we could replace all the employees with crash test dummies, and there...
2843
Jon Kern
jonkernpa
Feb 1, 2007 5:43 am
the team fracturing is not so much when we are in a "war" (?) room temporarily collaborating. but rather when folks go off on their own tangents, designing,...
