On 8 Jan 2008, at 12:13, Jared M. Spool wrote: [snip] > I've said it before and I'll say it again: > > In our research, it's all about the measures and rewards. What gets > measured, gets done. What gets rewarded, gets done well. [snip] > Want something to happen: build a culture that rewards it.
Absolutely. > Agile, by itself, isn't more likely to reward good design. Like any > methodology suite, it can be bent to fit the existing culture's > reward policies. As many teams are now discovering, in the wrong > cultures, Agile is just as toxic and waterfall. I certainly don't think agile is a panacea. Having an agile process doesn't automatically mean that you get products with a wonderful user experience. I've have found that they do a better job of delivering the product you asked for in a timely manner. So at least the company finds out that they asked for a bad product more quickly. A not insignificant advantage on occasion :-) The reason I like working on agile teams is that, in my experience anyway, is that they're _much_ more open to the cultural change that you're talking about. They value communication, cross-disciplinary knowledge, and building successful (rather than "to spec") products. What they lack are the IxD/UX/IA/usability/whatever personnel/outlook/ skills. When I'm doing UX work in a waterfall-type environment I feel like I have to fight to find a place in that hierarchy. Inevitably you're making some group's job "harder" because they are only interested in their narrow slice of the bigger picture. I just don't find those sorts of problems with agile groups. They already have a "listening" culture. I just need to find a way to speak in a language they will understand. Cheers, Adrian ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
