Hello, Brian. On Sunday, November 11, 2007, at 2:34:38 PM, you ... This is a tough one, for sure. I have guided my work life in large part from a joy focus,...
Hi, I think it's more about not squashing joy than about encouraging it. Most of us take a lot of pleasure in doing this software thing, and many look for...
How is professionalism inherently anti-joy? Personnally, it has the opposite effect on me (am I alone?)... I equate doing things professionnaly with doing...
Umm - I actually said explicitly in my note that professionalism wasn't anti-joy (penultimate sentence of the second paragraph). My point was that if you were...
Scott, I apologize, I totally misread your statement. I agree with you 100%... Pascal Roy, ing./P.Eng., PMP Vice-Président/Vice President Elapse Technologies...
Hello everyone. New to the group, so I wanted to introduce myself. I work as an IA at Comerica bank. Most of my work is on Comerica.com, but I'm doing some ...
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Citrix Online is growing and we're looking for designers of all levels to join our User Experience team! We're passionate about our "simpler is better" design ...
Hello, Adrian. On Thursday, December 6, 2007, at 1:36:23 AM, you ... Agile seems to promise improved software predictability, quality and productivity. It...
... [snip] I know - and agree. I'm interested in Anthony's particular case though, since I'm interested in how UX folk see the reasons for moving to agile. ...
Adrian, It's coming from our business analysts mostly. A lot of our projects are stalled or stuck in requirements gathering phases and are slow to move on to ...
... <snip> ... work well.... Or at all, one might venture to say. What follows comes out of my experience. I'm sure others can share success stories. As far as...
... Let me put on my list moderator hat and say that I think Business Analysis is definitely on topic. Usability and Business Analysis methods have a lot of...
Hello - The role of the Business Analyst in an Agile environment has been one of much interest with my peers of late. In fact, it is largely my inspiration ...
... Not necessarily. It does take a lot of cooperation between the players. In many cases, getting that cooperation may depend on acceptance of Agile at high...
QUOTE Marji Dainty <mdainty@...> wrote: I would say that Agility and RUP are more similar than different. They just seem to have ordered their tasks...
... Could you say more about why business analysts see that as threatening? One common fear I've seen is that when people don't see an explicit role that...
Hi Anthony, On 6 Dec 2007, at 14:09, Anthony Viviano wrote: [snip] ... What's slowing them down (again with the curiosity :-) ? I'm a great fan of the "Apply...
... [snip] Indeed. There was one LargeCompany that I did some consulting for where the management told me that they hadn't started looking at agile yet at the...
Hi, In a few weeks Mary & Tom Poppendieck will teach their Implementing Lean Software Development - practitioners course in Charlotte on Jan 28-29. See here...
Business Week in New York is currently looking for an experienced Web UI Designer to work on a new Web 2.0 product which will integrate with social networking...
Hello, (with our apologies for any duplicates) We are looking for speakers for our panel on Agile Web Design. Call for Proposals WIF 2008 Panel : Agile Web...
HI My name is David Fox. I am a Computer science Masters student finishing up my thesis research. I am currently looking for Agile developers that have had...
Hey David, I'll forward this to some of the engineers I work with, with the expectation that you'll tell us a little bit more about the research you're doing,...
I participated in another aspect of David's research - interviewing UX people about Agile. He is a good guy! I hope that others can find the time to...
Hi David, I'd be happy to help. Send me an email at my personal address codedface@... I manage a team of designers distributed internationally. Not sure...
Do any of you have experience or thoughts on the use of web based prototyping tools (Simunication, iRise, other) to create hi-fi prototypes as input to product...
... [snip] It depends :-) Who's creating them? Why? Why do that instead of a paper prototype, or a whiteboard sketch, or real software? My general experience...
Since we're a Flex shop, making "usable" prototypes is pretty easy - almost as easy as making clickable pdf, visio or whatever. I equate Flex to something like...
