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,...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Dec 4, 2010 11:31 am
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,...
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dina salah
dina_salah_e...
Dec 4, 2010 1:55 pm
 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...
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Kevin Wong
knwong.rm
Dec 4, 2010 2:22 pm
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...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Dec 4, 2010 3:39 pm
... 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...
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Nick Gassman
netwizuk
Dec 4, 2010 8:40 pm
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,...
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Tref Gare
trefgare
Dec 4, 2010 10:13 pm
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...
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Larry M
larrydmarine
Dec 5, 2010 5:15 pm
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...
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yaniv_nord
Dec 5, 2010 5:16 pm
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...
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Larry Marine
larrydmarine
Dec 5, 2010 5:16 pm
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...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Dec 5, 2010 5:20 pm
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....
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Dec 5, 2010 5:31 pm
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...
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Rob Park
rpark68
Dec 5, 2010 10:57 pm
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...
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Nick Gassman
netwizuk
Dec 5, 2010 11:24 pm
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...
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Larry M
larrydmarine
Dec 6, 2010 6:46 am
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...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Dec 6, 2010 8:11 am
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...
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pianomann81
Dec 6, 2010 2:58 pm
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...
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Larry Marine
larrydmarine
Dec 6, 2010 3:19 pm
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...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Dec 6, 2010 4:03 pm
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...
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scott
sepreece
Dec 6, 2010 4:49 pm
... 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,...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Dec 6, 2010 5:24 pm
... 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...
Hi, Larry. I'm not saying you're against Agile methods. I'm saying you're in the tv-is-radio-with-pictures stage of understanding them, and in particular the...
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Larry Marine
larrydmarine
Dec 6, 2010 10:07 pm
Quite interestingly, I see you dagmatic adherence to Agile and the notion that all people are exactly equal in skill and ability as rather Jurrasic. And if all...
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Larry Marine
larrydmarine
Dec 6, 2010 10:18 pm
BTW, it occurred to me to review your pedigree, William. You have a notable background in technology, but until you have some real education and experience in...
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Dave Rooney
daverooneyca
Dec 6, 2010 11:29 pm
Wow, Larry... I believe you've just written the most condescending message I've ever seen. Way to keep the communication going. Just wow. -- Dave Rooney ...
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Larry Marine
larrydmarine
Dec 6, 2010 11:32 pm
Damn! It wasn't intended to be condescending. Electronic communication is a totally frustrating user-experience. Larry Marine ... From: Dave Rooney...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Dec 7, 2010 12:21 am
... First, I'm hardly dogmatic. I'm happy to criticize Agile methods. In fact, I think the very first thing I said to you was lamenting the current state of...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Dec 7, 2010 4:04 am
Hi, Adrian, ... No, I put "better work" in quotes because it's only better from the narrow perspective of considering only the silo in which they feel is their...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Dec 7, 2010 4:09 am
Hi, Scott ... Yes, all of that is true. But that's not where the learning stops. The design, iterated on paper or through mockups, is not /everything/ the ...
