Hi all - I'm new to agile development and I was wondering if anyone has a good boilerplate template they could share that identifies and defines the roles on...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Oct 16, 2009 12:46 pm
... There is no generic "agile" process. So actual roles depend on which agile process you're using. One complicating factor is that the Agile Manifesto...
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Anders Ramsay
andersramsay
Oct 16, 2009 1:06 pm
As boilerplates go, one can certainly think of Scrum as a boilerplate planning framework for an Agile team. You could certainly go out and buy a book on Scrum...
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vasonson
Oct 18, 2009 6:40 pm
Thanks William. I knew my question was very general in nature but I needed a place to start. Since this is an agile-usability forum, I am most interested in...
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Rudiger
rudiger_wolf
Oct 18, 2009 6:40 pm
... Some people in the agile world think there is no place for roles and others think there should be. Here are links to two agile flavours that do have role...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Oct 18, 2009 7:26 pm
... Heh. It's certainly not too broad to ask. However, answering that is a major purpose of this group, so I don't know that we have a short answer for you...
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vasonson
Oct 19, 2009 4:36 pm
Thank you very much for the resource links!...
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vasonson
Oct 19, 2009 4:44 pm
There are many people with deep scars as a result not considering UX before releasing software! Thanks for the insight....
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juliebooth36
Oct 19, 2009 11:27 pm
At Con-way, we have the luxury (right now) of being in the same geographic location. But there are only two of us UX types... We work very closely with the BA...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Oct 20, 2009 4:11 pm
Hi! Pretty much every day we moderators see people signing up for the list. As part of the process, they mention why they're here. A common theme is somebody...
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Anders Ramsay
andersramsay
Oct 20, 2009 5:56 pm
Some tips that come to mind: * The change in your practice when transitioning to Agile is primarily in the How rather than the What. In other words, you are...
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Jeanne Hallock
SarahR4888
Oct 23, 2009 6:28 pm
First let me start off with that my role at my company is UI designer/user experience specialist for a 'silo'ed group with an additional UX group that governs...
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thomas_o_coleman
thomas_o_col...
Oct 23, 2009 6:34 pm
Hi Anders, Thanks for your tips! I'm wondering if you would mind if I repost your comments in another forum (the AgileUX group on connect.humanfactors.com)? ...
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Chris Morris
the.chrismo@...
Oct 23, 2009 7:01 pm
"What it comes down to is that the business representatives don't want to sit and have business requirements pulled out of them over hours' worth of meetings...
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Anders Ramsay
andersramsay
Oct 24, 2009 2:07 pm
Glad you found them useful! Please feel free to re-post. On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:33 PM, thomas_o_coleman <...
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Anders Ramsay
andersramsay
Oct 27, 2009 6:31 pm
At the Agile 09 conference, there was a speaker who told a story of how he one day, without asking management for permission, simply disassembled a bunch of...
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Dan Rawsthorne
drawstho
Oct 27, 2009 10:26 pm
I may have. I have done it, I have told it, and I have heard of others that did it, and I was at Agile09. Dan Rawsthorne, PhD, CST Senior Coach, Danube...
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Gerard Meszaros
gmkayaker
Oct 27, 2009 11:30 pm
I may have. I have done it, I have told it, and I have heard of others that did it, and I was at Agile09. My story predates Agile; I first did it in 1985! ...
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Margaret Motamed
speechmom2001
Oct 28, 2009 2:23 pm
I don't know who told the story. But I do know that we have done that here locally. With 2 functional teams. Management was fine with it. Only facilities was a...
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gh900
Oct 28, 2009 4:57 pm
I'm new to this organisation, and starting to bring in some Scrum practices. There's been a tradition of wireframing and sign-off before development starting...
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Anders Ramsay
andersramsay
Oct 28, 2009 6:42 pm
Great, thanks! The more cubicles torn down the merrier :) If you don't mind, I might be contacting each of you individually to see if I can include one or...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Oct 30, 2009 5:20 pm
I know this is a general UI design issue, but I am asking here because I know many of you folks personally to be a friendly and helpful bunch. But please feel...
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Anders Ramsay
andersramsay
Oct 30, 2009 5:39 pm
Maybe the issue is using icons. Why not just have 'Start watching this page' and 'Stop watching this page' toggle button? On Oct 30, 2009, at 1:19 PM,...
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marjoriepries
Oct 30, 2009 5:43 pm
The problem seems to be in depending on the color to convey the meaning while the eye is static. Maybe if you tried a closed eye vs. an open eye and forgot...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Oct 30, 2009 5:50 pm
This button is one of many on a toolbar, and I don't have sufficient real-estate to put long labels like this. ________________________________ From:...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Oct 30, 2009 5:51 pm
The idea of a closed eye has been suggested by a number of my test subjects. I haven't had a chance to test it yet, but my guess is that it will suffer from...
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Larry Constantine
foruse1
Oct 30, 2009 5:52 pm
Alain, Indeed, this is a generic problem for which there is no single best solution. It depends. But my own research shows that people who interpret the label...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Oct 30, 2009 6:05 pm
... solution. It depends. But my own research shows ... command to be executed (rather than the current ... change are problematic in any case. (Although, I ...
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Larry Constantine
foruse1
Oct 30, 2009 7:31 pm
Alain said: One idea I had was the following... Use the icon to convey state, since people seem to agree more on what state an icon refers to than on what...
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scott preece
sepreece
Oct 30, 2009 7:49 pm
Or, use an icon to show state and just use a popup dialog to indicate what happened as a result of clicking it (e.g., "Now watching page"). For a...
