agile

Project Management with Scrum

Hey All,

I would like to know if anyone out there has any experience working with the Scrum Project Management and how it ties in with the whole design process (starting from site maps and wireframes to visual comps).
Scrum (for those of you are not aware of it) is a more start up like management style where there is more of emphasis on collective responsibility (as opposed to responsibility of the proj manager). Also, in Scrum the work requirements, development and QA happen side by side (as opposed to one after another). So basically, you work on smaller pieces of the puzzle.

Agile methodologies for discovering user needs

Hi All,

We are in the discovery phase of the project, where we have absolutely no
idea what the user needs are. There is limited time and resources this we
cant conduct ethnographic studies. What would be the best set of "agile"
methodologies that can be used to start the process?

Thanks,
Oliver

Thoughts on Alan Cooper's Keynote

When Alan Cooper delivered the opening keynote at Interactions08 this
morning, I was once again struck by how sensible his view is. As I
understood his core argument, it was:

1. We know that the best interactive products are not the first to
market but the ones that have the best quality design.

2. Business managers often fail to understand this because they do not
know how to manage "creatives" among whom he numbers both interaction
designers and programmers.

3. The typical business approach is to develop requirements and then
build the product.

what about user stories

hi,
met with some agile programmers and learned about 'user stories'.
wanted to know what everyone around here thinks about them...

warm regards
navin pangti
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IxD in agile environments

Anyone doing IxD work in an agile programming environment? If so, what are
you doing to make it work with agile processes? Is it succeeding? What are
the problems you've had?

I know there's been some talk about this before on this list, and it seems a
lot of people are having serious trouble finding ways to adapt and work with
agile methods, but I've formed some ideas about this on my own, because I've
been working like this for a long time and have found ways to make it work
for me, and am wondering what other people have come up with.

Thanks.

-r-