We have a distributed team where everyone but the business resides and works together in one state and the business is in another state, 2 hours later. There...
... In my view, it's vital to have somebody in the room who can speak authoritatively about the product. So in your shoes I'd probably take the most...
We have an off-site customer rep. No issues with that as our rep is familair with the products and customer base. We also have two off-site developers, four...
William has given you one very good way to proceed. We've take a different path. We have assigned a dev manager at the remote location to be the Proxy PO. And...
Hi, The Agile Cambridge conference will be held on the 14 th and 15 th of October in Cambridge UK. http://www.agilecambridge.net/ac2010/programme.php There...
Dear all, [apologies for cross-postings] I've compiled a list of conferences/deadlines with relevance to our community. I aim to send an updated overview every...
Hi folks, Anders Ramsey has started a "State of Agile UX" survey. You can find it at: http://bit.ly/auxsurvey I'm sure he'd love it if more folk filled it in /...
I manage a team of 4 UX folks at a medium sized software company that has recently transitioned to Scrum. We have 3 scrum teams each staffed with Developers,...
Hello, yaniv_nord. On Friday, December 3, 2010, at 2:22:56 PM, ... So bring them together sometimes. Perhaps by having them all visit with one team one time,...
 Hi, My name is Dina Salah. I am a PhD student at the university of york, UK doing a PhD on agile and user centred design integration. I am moderating an...
Yaniv, We have a similar sized team to you and know the situation you are in. We decided to have all the UX team members together but in close proximity to the...
... The question I'd ask: does good UX in your software matter much? If so, have the UX people sit with their teams. UX is all about the details. The more a...
I have a team of UX people, who co-locate with Agile teams whilst the team is running. We still get together for team meetings, feedback sessions, awaydays,...
Our environment is the opposite - we huddle our ux folk together which does give us the cross pollination thing, but means we miss out on the embedded...
We are a consulting firm and do things quite differently. I wonder if our different approach is due to being "outsiders" or is it because we perform our design...
Thanks everyone for the feedback. I think my plan will be to keep the UX folks seated with their teams. Additionally, I'll get a lot more disciplined about...
We are a consulting firm and do things quite differently. I wonder if our different approach is due to being "outsiders" or is it because we perform our design...
Hi Yaniv, Thanks for posting. ... My personal experience is that it is better to have UX folk with the rest of the team during the product development process....
Hi, Larry, I hear similar descriptions from time to time, and I'd like to ask a few questions to flesh out my understanding of your situation. ... Does your...
I am currently working with a team that has a dedicated UX specialist. She sits with the team itself. This company is used to having the UX people do a lot...
What Larry descrubes is actually quite similar to our approach, although the amount of up front design required depends on the nature of the project. If it's...
Rather than embed my answers to your good questions and making this reply quite long, I'll summarize my answers here, which, by the time I finished this, ended...
Hi George, ... That's interesting, since it differs quite a lot from my own experiences. Can you give some examples? I find, for example, that developers do...
Hello everyone, I manage a team of 3 Web Designers at our company and am trying to "sell" UX as a benefit to our development process. My problem is that our...
That's a good point, Nick. Given that I'm a consultant, we usually get called in to help with new projects. We haven't had to help out with existing products...
Hi, Larry. From this, I wonder if you've only encountered bad Agile implementations, which is totally plausible these days, but I think you're definitely...
... Sure, but when they have the training and experience to make good design choices they will be designers (as well as developers), and that's fine. For me,...
... That's still a binary construction, which I also think is bunk. It is a continuum. There are some design choices that any idiot can make. There are some...
