The parade of interviews continues - I love it. Last night was one about integrating user-centered design into Agile methods with David Fox, a student of Frank Maurer. I met Frank at CASCON where we did a workshop together on the human element of Agile.
Some of the things we talked about: lo/medium/high fidelity user experience work, how our Agile UX team is working with an Agile development team (and less-than-Agile) other teams, what tools would be valuable to get the UX work better integrated, and specifically on information architecture work and Agile.
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Agile and UCD
Research interview
It was more an interview for "research purposes" - where many interviews will be compiled into one aspect of David's project. So I do not know exactly what will come of it. But I will share more when I know more (and also seeing what other kind of people David may want to interview).
Agile research
David's research question: Can, if, and when or when not is it possible for both Agile and Usability be integrated to spawn a hybrid methodology to perhaps circumvent some of the governing obstacles described above that limit each methodology?
If you are a practitioner and want to contribute to his research, contact him.
Published Fox research on Agile & UCD
I was hunting around for some other Agile UX stuff, and went looking for some published version of David's work. I think this is it: Agile Methods and User-Centered Design: How These Two Methodologies are Being Successfully Integrated in Industry from the Agile 2008 conference (on the research stage).
I found a PDF version of the paper.