Re: [IxDA Discuss] Agile & UX

2008-11-27 Thread HÃ¥kan Reis
There should be NO 8-week sprint 0! - The first sprint really is no different to all the other sprints. It should follow the same rules as of the other sprints as well. If anything it should be SHORTER (shorter sprint is good to form teams, team goals and rules, finding impediments, and doing that

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Agile & UX

2008-11-09 Thread Elizabeth Whitworth
Thanks all for the input, and Adrian and Liz for the links. I have been reading through some (not yet all) of the agile threads on this list, and a number of people seem to be saying 'yes we do start just one sprint ahead of development, but it is usually very painful'...especially if there is no

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Agile & UX

2008-11-08 Thread Elizabeth Bacon
Hiya, Folks interested in this topic might like to read Lane Halley's recent journal post at http://tinyurl.com/5t6m4y. She makes some really coherent points there, IMHO! Also, I thought that Alan Cooper's keynote presented at the Agile 2008 conference was pretty ground-breaking. And it may well

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Agile & UX

2008-11-07 Thread faith
hey jessica i work for an organization that recently moved from RUP to Agile, it can be a really exciting transition. before you decide on where you fall on this fence i would soak up all you can about the ideal agile team and then look at your organization itself and identify/forecast pain poin

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Agile & UX

2008-11-05 Thread Steven Webster
Webster Director of Technology and User Experience Adobe Consulting m: +44 7917 428 947 Registered Office: 151 St Vincent Street, Glasgow G2 5NJ. Company No. SC101089 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Hoekman J

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Agile & UX

2008-11-05 Thread Adrian Howard
On 4 Nov 2008, at 20:58, Elizabeth Whitworth wrote: [snip] It would be great to hear the experiences of others on this list in resolving design and agile methods. [snip] The biggest change I've noticed in my own behaviour was a move away from producing "documentation" in the form of hi-fi wi

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Agile & UX

2008-11-05 Thread Adrian Howard
On 4 Nov 2008, at 21:24, Robert Hoekman Jr wrote: My experience is very similar to Elizabeth's, except we spent about 8 weeks on "sprint 0" when we built the groundwork for our core product. Much has been said on this list about Agile and UX already, so I won't get into it. I just wanted t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Agile & UX

2008-11-04 Thread Bryan Minihan
Good point, Robert... Full disclosure: The '8 week sprint' was the beginning of the project, my second 8 weeks with the company, and my development team's first 8 weeks. That is, they brought the agile methodology in and I did my best to keep up with them as much as humanly possible the entire t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Agile & UX

2008-11-04 Thread Robert Hoekman Jr
> > My experience is very similar to Elizabeth's, except we spent about 8 > weeks on "sprint 0" when we built the groundwork for our core > product. Much has been said on this list about Agile and UX already, so I won't get into it. I just wanted to say one thing: You two are incredibly lucky. I

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Agile & UX

2008-11-04 Thread Bryan Minihan
My experience is very similar to Elizabeth's, except we spent about 8 weeks on "sprint 0" when we built the groundwork for our core product. I came at my current company from a waterfall-driven environment, I'm the only designer, and found the same hurdles in the beginning. I spent 2-3 weeks prio

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Agile & UX

2008-11-04 Thread Elizabeth Whitworth
I'm a user experience specialist that came into a company already using agile practices. When I first got there I tried to jump straight into the sprints with interaction designs. This resulted in a lot of confusion, unnecessary changes, and a less than ideal user interface. We took a step back on

[IxDA Discuss] Agile/UX conference info (was Re: Prototyping with Adobe CS3)

2008-01-11 Thread Adrian Howard
On 10 Jan 2008, at 14:38, Michael Tuminello wrote: > For me, I can't say that it does very much. That's part of the > reason I'm headed down to interaction 08 - for the agile/uxd workshop. [snip] On the subject of conferences... The Agile 2008 Conference (Toronto, Aug 4-8) this year has a U