Hi all, I've recently started in a new role as the first user experience designer in a small company practicing an agile development process. I'm now working...
Dmitry, The article library at the agile alliance is a good place to start. http://www.agilealliance.org/library I think that if you come at this from a design...
Hi, The current environment which is moving from waterfall approach to an agile methodology requires formal UI design reviews..has anyone been able to reduce...
Hi desiree, wish I could be there at the conference just didn't find out about it at the time.. ? Is their discussiin around the use of formal UI design...
Collaborative usability inspections are a more agile design alternative to formal UI design reviews. Over 15 years of use have proved them to be fast, easy to...
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Dmitry, Lyn Miller has written some excellent papers on UX/UCD and Agile. e.g. Case Study of Customer Input For a Successful Product ...
In addition to Lynn's paper (which is targeted more at developers with no background in UX), I've written an article that describes in detail the adaptations ...
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What box should testers check? ... Brian Marick, independent consultant Mostly on agile methods with a testing slant www.exampler.com, www.exampler.com/blog...
I was thinking: good point --- testers don't fit in that category scheme! And then I wondered: what do they test? When we test "tester", we usually mean...
... Depends on the school of testing. The "analytic" and "factory" schools would tend to have functionality testers butt out of usability testing. The...
re: " How many functionality testers are usability testers?" are not all users (testers not withstanding) usability testers? jon blog: http://technicaldebt.com...
... [snip] It's interesting that I occasionally see a similar damaging dynamic in the UX world to the developer/tester divide (look at all the clever design...
... My bad - I'll add it in :-) The reason I stuck the poll up was a comment on another list that the folk here were mostly "software engineers". I hadn't got...
... I guess you might say that, but for testers it is the testing that is the primary task, and they have both experience and focus on that, with a supporting...
Not that Robert's post is spam, but I do need to add: - Are all posters to UseNet groups Spammers? I guess the answer is: over time, they tend to be. I wonder...
True, and I could say that since I've been eating food for a long time, I'm the equal of an executive chef at the world's finest restaurant. As much as I'd...
Hi Tim: I do agree there is a sense in which this is true. But I don't think it's helpful. People who use things often cope, but don't work to improve things. ...
... Further to Robert's comments: As with all professions, you have dabblers and specialists. Personally, I have 12 years of study and practice in Human...
On 9 May 2007, at 15:23, White, Jeff wrote: [snip] ... True. However, I seem to encounter two breeds of specialist. The "inward" looking ones who don't want to...
Adrian, I agree with you on the generalising specialist, an interesting term... I've seen a number of times development completely halted because a bunch of...
... I read the original post as referring to having an onsite customer using the system. I'm not saying that this is a complete replacement for more formal ...
... [snip] Don't worry - I've seen this a lot. Even when I've been employed primarily for my user experience hat :-) The absolute best way I've found to...
That's just it. They don't want to pay you to spend the time do it right just so you can eventually show them the right way... ;-) I guess I'll have to do it...
Hello I'm interested in how I can benchmark or conduct a comparitive study of an agile project (**in particular the usability aspect of that project**) against...
Friends, I am new to Software Testing and want to learn it by depth. I need ur support in the same. Here are few things I am looking for the long time but...