A prioritized user story backlog helps to understand what to do next, but is a difficult tool for understanding what your whole system is intended to do. A user story…
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An Uncomfortable Truth About Agile Testing
Summary: From the Editors of StickyMinds.com – One characteristic of agile development is continuous involvement from testers throughout the process. Testers have a hard and busy job. Jeff has finally…
Usage to User Interface
Tutorial: Collaboratively Designing and Testing User Interface From User Stories, User Scenarios, or Use Cases This 3-4 hour tutorial describes a practical approach to translating the goals users would like…
User Story Mapping Presentation
A prioritized user story backlog helps to understand what to do next, but is a difficult tool for understanding what your whole system is intended to do. A user story…
Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know How to Get It
Why knowing what you want in agile development may be an impediment to getting it. It all started with one of those weird trains of thought that come to you…
Personas, Profiles, Actors, & Roles: Modeling Users to Target Successful Product Design
This 3 hour tutorial simplifies and demystifies commonly used user models such as personas, user profiles, user roles, and actors. You’ll learn how to simply construct each and leverage them…
Kicking Off the Slow Software Movement
Why our rush to build software faster sacrifices quality and treats software like fast food In August 2007, I was lucky enough to be able to edit an issue of…
Struggling to Get into Shu Business
Why it’s taken me years to explain simple things simply Originally Published: 7/18/2007 Shu Ha Ri explains how we learn I’ve often found the terms Shu, Ha, and Ri useful…
The UCD Perspective Before and After Agile
In this paper, Heather Williams and Andrew Furguson describe performing lightweight usability testing electronically with customers over a long distance. It’s a minor point of a strong paper that gives…
Dirty Hands Required
Why user experience people need to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty in development to get the best results. 4/2/2007 In an email exchange with a friend…