All, I wanted to make a last minute request and announcement.
The Agile 2008 conference (held this August in Toronto: http://www.agile2008.org/) will pull in a mixed audience of over 1500 people. This year the conference is organized around themes (or stages) one of them is User Experience. (I'm hoping this debunks the idea that at least some Agile people don't care about user experience.) The deadline for submissions for the conference is tomorrow Feb 25th. You'll find the call for participation for the UX stage here: http://www.agile2008.org/stage-users.html. This is a last minute pitch for anyone who's thought of teaching, writing an experience report, or presenting a workshop to quickly write an outline and submit it. (http://submissions.agile2008.org/) The big news for the conference this year is a keynote will come from Alan Cooper, who's graciously agreed to attend the conference, and have the final word at the closing keynote. For those of you who attended Interaction '08 in Savannah, you'll know that Alan will have cautionary words for Agile development practitioners. And, I'm with him. I can't imagine a software development lifecycle that could work without including design. And while many people may have issues with Agile development, I think a variation of the Winston Churchill quote on democracy (http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/364.html) applies here: Agile development is the worst form of software development except for all the others that have been tried. If you've been working in Agile development and have experience or practice adaptations you could share, the community would appreciate it. If you've got practice you think Agile practitioners could benefit from, this is your chance to teach it. If you've got strategies for UX people that would help them adapt to Agile environments, you'll find them here. I'm confident that Alan's presence throughout the conference (yes he's agreed to be there during the conference) will help dial up the visibility of UX as an important concern. Thanks everyone - and please excuse the selling. Feel free to contact me off list if you have questions (or flames). -Jeff -------------------------------------------- Jeff Patton mobile: +1 (801) 910-7908 skype: jeff_patton www.agileproductdesign.com Agile usability discussion group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agile-usability/ "There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing." --Mark Twain ________________________________________________________________ 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
