UX management

XIV.3 May + June 2007
Page: 40
Digital Citation

Managing UCD within agile projects


Authors:
Mark Detweiler

The goals of this article are to share some insights from managing user experience (UX) professionals involved in software-development projects that follow an Agile development methodology, and to stimulate thoughts about ways to anticipate and address potential challenges that Agile approaches might pose for a UX director or manager. Over the past decade, traditional, plan-driven software development methods have been supplemented with a growing number of newer, more nimble methods, including: Extreme Programming [1], Agile/Scrum [2, 4, 9], Crystal Methods [4], and Adaptive Software Development [5]. While these methods vary in terms of their specific approaches and unique contributions,…




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