PLoP 2004 Assigning and maintaining values for attributes of large numbers of business objects can be cumbersome. Hierarchically Managed Attributes offers a simple solution by arranging business objects into categorized…
Author: Jeff Patton
Unfixing the Fixed Scope Project
Using Agile Methodologies to Create Flexibility in Project Scope ADC 2004 Although it seems to be common knowledge that it’s impossible to succeed in a project with fixed time, quality…
Improving On Agility: Adding Usage-Centered Design to a Typical Agile Software Development
ForUse.com This paper describes, at a high level, the incremental development cycle typical of an agile software development environment, and how adding Usage-Centered Design will help this process run smoother….
Hitting the Target
Adding Interaction Design Agile Software Development Featured OOPSLA 2003 OOPSLA (Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications) is an annual ACM research conference. Extreme Programming appears to be a solution for…
The RITE Method
This paper, from several folks at Microsoft, describes the RITE method – or Rapid Iterative Testing and Evaluation method for using usability testing to find tune and improve the design…