Not being privvy to the IxDA Summit and Keynote speakers, I think Agile can work very well with Design embedded in, and I've worked in 4 places that did it welll and 2 that did it like crap.
The companies that did it well were not "Agile Maniacs", meaning they took what worked with the process and modified it where necessary. The companies that failed were dogmatic to Agile process, (Scrum can be incredibly inflexible). Most, (all?), of the Agile processes I worked in were Engineering centric, and had little to no formal integration with design, but that doesn't mean design couldn't be easily gimmy'd in the process. Successes I've experienced are when design was done as follows, (lets say it's a new enterprise app): 1. Rough the "Big Picture" UI/UX in totality - (generalizing functionality/guestimate what will probably be needed) - Pre Agile 2. Create template libraries of the usual "Interface Widget Suspects" - Pre Agile 3. Use these libraries in/imedaitely after "Feature/Req" discovery meetings, to rapidly prototype - focus on interations during Agile, (most of the time your one iteration ahead of engineering) 4. Work with engineering to negotiate delta's as the build is rolling - In the thick of Agile Are these 4 steps "Agile"? Who cares, it works well with Agile in my experience. Note the "Upfront" steps 1 and 2 are often done while Agile is rolling, as GUI teams often have a little wiggle room upfront when "Architecture Eng" issues are being worked out, which generally take the first few iterations, leaving the GUI alone for a bit. All in all design can jump on the Agile bandwagon, and be a good team player, one key ingredient is the rest of the team needs to be flexible as to the inherent baggage design brings with it. -- Joseph Rich Rogan President UX/UI Inc. http://www.jrrogan.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
