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Fer O’Neil

Article Review:

Sy, Desiree. 2007. “Adapting Usability Investigations for Agile User-centered Design.” Journal of Usability Studies 2 (3) (May): 112-132.

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QA TestingCodingDesignAnalysis

Features 1-5 Features 16-20 Features 6-10

Waterfall

Agile

What is Agile?

Individuals and interactions Working softwareCustomer collaborationResponding to change

(Beck and Beedle 2001)

over following a plan

over processes and tools

over comprehensive documentation

over contract negotiation

What are design “chunks?”

Agile: Primary difference is time

The Agile processes:

• Chunks• Cycle mini-releases• Personas• Using different usability investigations

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Limitations of Agile

Workflow

2

Coding

Workflow1

Features

How Agile overcomes the limitations

Contextual

Usability tests

In-house

Why Agile is better

Scrum

Review Meeting

Report Information With these stories and

demos, we replace personaswith people, and scenarios with workflows and samplework files.

More people show up for these meetings because they show analysis of results, not just data.

Conclusion…

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Working Bibliography

Beck, Kent, and Mike Beedle. 2001. “Manifesto for Agile Software Development.” http://agilemanifesto.org/.Garrett, Jesse James. 2010. The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond (2nd Edition). 2nd ed. New Riders Press.Gilbane Group. 2011. “MindTouch Case Studies & Customers | Collaboration and Product Help - MindTouch, Inc.” http://www.mindtouch.com/resources/customers.Highsmith, J., and A. Cockburn. 2001. “Agile software development: the business of innovation.” Computer 34 (9) (September): 120-127. McInerney, Paul, and Frank Maurer. 2005. “UCD in agile projects: dream team or odd couple?” interactions 12 (6) (November): 19–23. Nielsen, Jakob. 1993. “Iterative user-interface design.” IEEE Computer 26 (11) (November): 32-41. Sharp, Helen, Robert Biddle, Phil Gray, Lynn Miller, and Jeff Patton. 2006. “Agile development: opportunity or fad?” In CHI ’06 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, 32–35. CHI EA ’06. New York, NY, USA: ACM. Sy, Desiree. 2007. “Adapting Usability Investigations for Agile User-centered Design.” Journal of Usability Studies 2 (3) (May): 112-132.Tullis, Thomas, and William Albert. 2008. Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics. 1st ed. Morgan Kaufmann.Vijayan, A T. 2011. “Agile Developer Notes: Scrum Roles and Responsibilities”. Blog. Agile Developer Notes. http://www.agiledevelopernotes.com/2011/07/scrum-roles-and-responsibilities.html.