Tips for integrating user experience and agile development (video)
At last week’s 7-Minute Soapbox in Waterloo, Declan Whelan of Whelan & Associates talked about how to fit user experience/design/usability into an agile development process. I’ve had the pleasure of working as a UX designer with Declan on an extreme programming (XP) project and can vouch for his ideas: thanks to his leadership, that project boasted some impressive metrics in terms of productivity and code quality. Also, I was thrilled to find that most of the developers grew increasingly interested in front-end design issues, often challenging the wireframes or prototypes I delivered and following up with some clever suggestions. That level of teamwork really improved the quality of the product.
Declan provided the following summary of his 7-minute presentation, though I highly recommend you check out the video below so you can see him smoke through 55 slides in the allotted time. Woot!
