My experience is that you as a UX person need to be involved in the product definition or 'backlog' throughout the entire development process and not just the beginning definition phase. Sometimes you will need to be more of a product manager than a UX person, and be willing to limit or streamline the amount of documentation you end up doing (not necessarily a bad thing). Just In Time Design is an Agile mantra.... Be flexible and work directly with developers as a team, not just delivering specs and wireframes then moving on.
It is important, however, to have a good strategic vision to build from, which can often be the most challenging part to fit into an agile process. There is the concept of "sprint 0" - that this is the intial sprint where you work out all of the high-level strategy and IA structure then create your backlog from there. I personally like to have specific UX deliverables or demos in each sprint so that UX and possibly design stay 1 sprint ahead of the development team. The demo for the UX team is wireframes or a clickable prototype that is presented to the group. Jeff Patton has some interesting ideas and tips about UX and agile http://agileproductdesign.com/blog/ Hope this is helpful. Kim ----- Original Message ---- From: Jessica Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 3, 2008 4:50:45 PM Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Agile & UXD What are your experiences in an agile environment? What has worked for you and what hasn't? My organization is considering employing agile, and I tend to be of the opinion that UXD needs to be at the forefront of the process thinking about things holistically - then breaking the project into chunks that will eventually result in a complete user experience. However, I have received quite a bit of push back in this regard and have found it difficult to find other experiences which support my thoughts. Thanks, Jessica Petersen Senior UX Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 801.722.7000 x 1483 tel 801.722.7001 fax 550 East Timpanogos Circle Orem, UT 84097 www.omniture.com <http://www.omniture.com> ________________________________________________________________ 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
