Why thinking of agile as culture and not just process explains resistance and difficulty in teaching and learning the approach Culture, not process I’d been working with Josh and lots…
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The New User Story Backlog is a Map
Why the flat user story backlog doesn’t work, and how to build a better backlog that will help you more effectively explain your system, prioritize, and plan your releases. This…
Twelve Emerging Best practices for Adding UX Work to Agile Development
How experienced UX practitioners have adapted to work happily in Agile environments Is user experience relevant where you work? 6/10/2008 Don’t know what I want, but I know how to…
Secrets to Automated Acceptance Tests
In the years that I’ve been involved with agile development, I’ve noticed an ongoing crusade for a holy grail that teams have been striving to reach: fully automated acceptance tests….
Is User Experience Relevant Where You Work?
This post is about how looking at the context your product is targeted for can explain your organization’s support, or lack of support, for user experience concerns. Software development and…
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…
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…
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…