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October 31, 2003
UCD meets XP/Agile
And here's another list pointer. William Hudson alerted folks to a draft of an article he's done for the Cutter IT Journal. It's a simulated conversation between a UCD consultant and an XP team leader: (PDF). It starts: eXtreme Programming and other Agile processes provide a middle ground between chaos and over-elaborate processes sometimes referred to as "death by documentation." A particularly attractive aspect of the Agile approach for many teams is its willingness to accommodate change no matter how advanced development might be. However, this very flexibility can cause user interface design issues and ensuing usability problems. I'm assuming that XP/Agile are primarily relevant in software applications development. Are people using it for web sites or web applications? Inquiring minds and all that!
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Just about every web app project I've worked on has used one of the Agile practices. A large accommodation website I'm consulting for at the moment was using very strict eXtreme Progragramming when I arrived. It has since been modified to accommodate some of the problems with the concept (e.g. pair programming is good for novices or in certain 'groupthink' situations, but can be harmful otherwise - disturbing 'flow'), and allows for the Human-Centred Design processes to work in parallel, shaping the 'guiding metaphor', using personas in, and writing the 'user stories', etc... -- Posted by on October 26, 2004 07:23 PM
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