Thank you, Carol and Georgi. I agree with the downside of adding the links and have, instead, been proposing A/B testing with an improved design as well. I...
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Mairi Reyer
mairi_reyer
Aug 16, 2011 6:56 am
What are your personal favorite online user testing tools? I've used the Optimal Sort tools and am trying out fivesecondtest.com, but I'm interested in what...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Aug 16, 2011 8:18 am
Hi Desirée! On 15 Aug 2011, at 20:25, desireesy wrote: [snip] ... [snip] Being extra niggly - I'd maybe rephrase the goal of "lowest possible fidelity of" as...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Aug 16, 2011 8:54 am
... It's not a problem unique to usability testing either. I've seen exactly the same prioritisation / value / delivery issue come up when people with a new...
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Justin Tauber
justaube
Aug 16, 2011 10:12 am
Hi all, <preamble> I've been lurking for a while... absolutely love this list, though I am very much a newbie to agile. The list has been very quiet lately, so...
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Maria Gililova
maria_gililova
Aug 16, 2011 12:31 pm
Usertesting.com Sent from my iPhone ... Usertesting.com Sent from my iPhone On Aug 15, 2011, at 6:06 PM, Mairi Reyer < mreyer@... > wrote: What are your...
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Jon Kern
jonkernpa
Aug 16, 2011 1:18 pm
Ask the customer what "done" is... More importantly is the reason why you should care about knowing what "done" means... jon blog: http://technicaldebt.com ...
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Jeff Wall
jmwall67
Aug 16, 2011 1:45 pm
You can have a Definition of Done based upon what the customer wants/needs. But our Definition of Done is internal, and the customer never sees it. It is all...
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Vijay Hanumolu
vijju2k
Aug 16, 2011 2:15 pm
It really depends what you are trying to do, some of the tools we have looked in the past for online testing: loop11 <http://www.loop11.com/> and a whole list...
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Carol Smith
caroljacobss...
Aug 16, 2011 2:15 pm
Un-moderated testing limits your ability to find out why people are doing what they are doing, so I recommend moderating at least some of your tests. For...
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Joshua Kerievsky
jlk112067
Aug 16, 2011 2:15 pm
... I blogged about the Definition of Done here: http://bit.ly/9KrweH -- best, jk -- Joshua Kerievsky Founder, CEO Industrial Logic, Inc. Web:...
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HRB
hughrbeyer
Aug 16, 2011 2:39 pm
I think the question of scope creep is real, even for an Agile project. Yeah, in theory the point of Agile is to expand or change the scope whenever your user...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Aug 17, 2011 8:40 am
Hi Justin, ... [snip] My preferred definition of done is: When everybody on the team agrees that the story is done I'm not trying to avoid the question -...
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Jeremy Kriegel
sonojerarc
Aug 17, 2011 12:23 pm
There are a lot of components to done, coded, tested, etc. As a UX practitioner, I'll focus on the quality aspect as it relates to our work. Based on the...
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Gene Arch
pianomann81
Aug 17, 2011 1:33 pm
I must respectfully disagree with you, Adrian. The definition you espouse seems to take the work outside of the iteration, which to me seems to make it harder...
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Anders Ramsay
andersmatic
Aug 17, 2011 2:08 pm
There is no one correct definition of a story being Done. Anyone looking for that definition has misunderstood what Done is about. Done is a judgment call...
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Michael James
michaeljames...
Aug 17, 2011 2:36 pm
I agree there's no one definition that works for all teams. Teams and POs have to work together to find the right one for their products. The discussion is...
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Jeremy Kriegel
sonojerarc
Aug 17, 2011 2:37 pm
... for that definition has misunderstood what Done is about. Agree to an extent. It changes based on the story. However, there are characteristics of done. ...
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Gene Arch
pianomann81
Aug 17, 2011 3:26 pm
I agree with both of you - the team must agree on what is "done," and every team's definition will be different. I was mainly concerned about that definition...
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Justin Tauber
justaube
Aug 17, 2011 4:17 pm
Thanks for all the responses, they've been really useful. I get the impressions that there a few different concepts that need unpacking here: * Done for an...
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Anders Ramsay
andersmatic
Aug 17, 2011 4:54 pm
... I like the concept of "user debt," as in we're indebted to the users :) UX debt is often a reference to a feature which technically functions as requested...
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Jeremy Kriegel
sonojerarc
Aug 17, 2011 4:59 pm
There is absolutely user debt, design debt, usability debt, experience debt, or whatever. Just as compromises get made on the development that will hinder...
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Justin Tauber
justaube
Aug 18, 2011 5:45 am
Theoretically, there shouldn't be any such thing as technical debt either, though, right? But then again, the repayment of technical debts might be a good way...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Aug 18, 2011 9:51 am
Hi Justin, (subject changed to counter threadjacking :-) ... [snip] I don't think that's necessarily true. For a start there are environments where the...
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Jon Innes
jinnes
Aug 18, 2011 4:22 pm
Both technical debt and UX debt are real. Most teams can judge the amount of technical debt fairly well as they have engineers on the team who know how to....
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Aug 18, 2011 4:29 pm
Hi Gene, I think I'm probably making my point badly. Let me try and clarify :-) ... Some questions: What progress are we trying to measure? What's the utility...
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Gene Arch
pianomann81
Aug 18, 2011 5:12 pm
Thanks for your precise response to my message, Adrian. I better understand the situation, and it makes more sense. I think in my organization, we put a lot...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Aug 19, 2011 8:42 am
Hi Justin, ... I think unpacking "done" like that can be harmful. It's making the feedback loop longer, so it makes it much harder to fix problems sooner. For...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Aug 19, 2011 9:00 am
Hi Anders, On 17 Aug 2011, at 17:54, Anders Ramsay wrote: [snip] ... [snip] I think it depends on the particular way the debt metaphor is being used. If you're...
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Dean Morrow
dmorrow6
Aug 24, 2011 11:48 am
I've been thinking for some time about how to leverage lean principles from a UX /product development perspective. I'm finding some facets of UX/Prod Dev...
