Hello! First - apologies to subscribers of SIGIA and IxD for cross-posting...
My name is Dave Robertson, and although you can't see him, this is my partner, John (JJ) Johnston. We've been asked to deliver a presentation for friends of ThoughtWorks Canada in January (to which all of you are welcome to come, but more later). JJ is an agile guy who's interested in user experience and I'm the user experience guy who's interested in Agile. We've decided to make an argument that Agile and UX share a number of common values and that these values should form a foundation for better integration (rather than simply trying to mash together our respective techniques or chucking rocks at opposing sides). Since we were approached in October, there's been a lot of fresh discussion about "agilux" here and on other lists. Nielsen/Norman Group delivered their opinion on the topic and Cennydd Bowles made his call for a common future for the Agile and UX communities. But, as always, we still see emails on mailing lists asking questions like "How do we mash these things together?", "Should we mash these things together?" and, most importantly - "How do we make this work better!?". It struck us that you might have an opinion about common values, so as part of our presentation, we'd like to hear and summarize this community's feelings about our theory, good or bad. To (hopefully) start the discussion, here are three questions: 1. What role do you play in your projects? Is it as an analyst, a project manager, a developer, a designer, a researcher or something else? 2. What "things" - goals, objectives, values, attitudes, philosophies - are most important to you when you do your job? 3. If you've been engaged in projects that have been heavily influenced by agile and /or user experience, how has it influenced what you value in your work? Sincerest thanks! Dave & JJ Dave Robertson Principal Consultant, User Experience ThoughtWorks Canada Phone: 403.614.7946 Yahoo! IM: [email protected] Twitter: shoveller PS: Here are some details about that presentation. Feel welcome to register if you're planning to be in Toronto on January 20th or Calgary on January 22nd. http://www.thoughtworks.com/what-we-say/events/tech-briefing_ca.html ________________________________________________________________ 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
