Introducing agile principles and management to a library organization

Daniel ForsmanChalmers University of Technology

Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging technologies 2013

Speculation

http://www.iqgroup.com.au/intelligence/blog/agile-vs-waterfall-matching-the-methodology-to-the-project/

I will recognize that the universe of information culture is changing fast and that libraries need to respond positively to these changes to provide resources and services that users need and want

- Laura Cohen, Librarian 2.0 Manifesto, 2006

Who are the people we are designing for? What is the activity (or activities) they are trying to do? And what are the contexts in which they are trying to operate?

http://www.poetpainter.com/thoughts/article/ia-summit-2009-the-fundamentals-of-experience-design-

http://www.e-cartouche.ch/content_reg/cartouche/ui_access/en/html/GUIDesign_UCD.html

Ask the librarians, the users… ?

“One of the worst ways of approaching design is to let the customers do it. Customers are good at pointing out a need, a pain point in the market, but they are lousy at solving the problem.”

http://www.interfaces.com/blog/2011/04/entropy-design/

Value curve

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/10/10/lean-startup-is-great-ux-packaging/

Eric Ries’s Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop and the Think-Make-Check UX cycle

Think Mobile Firstyes, even for library services

https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2012/06/whats-the-difference-between-ui-and-ux/

http://conversationalrugby.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/improving-scrums-in-the-short-term/

Scrum

http://www.sadhanbiswas.com/myblog/techsavvy/agile-methodology/

Discovery and delivery

     

Support and systems

     

Scholarly communication

     

Library services

Library e-services

Library instruction

Library management