Agile 2008 Agile Methods and User-Centered Design: How These Two Methodologies are Being Successfully Integrated in Industry August 04-August 08 ISBN: 978-0-7695-3321-6
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/Agile.2008.78
A core principle of Agile development is to satisfy the customer by providing valuable software on an early and continuous basis. For a software application to be valuable it should have a user interface that is usable. Recently there has been some evidence that suggests using Agile methods alone does not ensure that an applications UI is usable. As a result, there is currently interest in combining Agile methods with user-centered design (UCD) practices. To support existing empirical evidence that these methodologies co-exist effectively we have conducted a study with participants that have previously combined these two methodologies. Our findings, combined with existing work show that the existing model used for Agile UCD integration can be broadened into a more common model. In this paper we describe three different approaches taken by our participants to achieve this integration. We term these approaches the Generalist, Specialist, and the Hybrid approach.
Index Terms:
Agile, Usability, UCD
Citation:
David Fox, Jonathan Sillito, Frank Maurer, "Agile Methods and User-Centered Design: How These Two Methodologies are Being Successfully Integrated in Industry," agile, pp.63-72, Agile 2008, 2008 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||