Agile user experience SIG

Abstract

Agile development is being adopted by companies with greater frequency every year, resulting in changes to the way user experience practitioners work. Unfortunately, there has been little guidance on how to incorporate User Centered Design (UCD) into the agile process so most practitioners either struggle alone or seek out others in the same boat.The goal of this SIG is to draw upon the shared experience of these practitioners to uncover the best practices for agile user-centered design to facilitate optimal product development.

Software product innovation in agile usability teams: an analytical framework of social capital, network governance, and usability knowledge management

“…Integration type (%) Key authors with related work None (14.7%) Constantine and Lockwood (2002), Hudson (2005), Sharp et al (2006), Ferreira et al (2007b), Patton (2007), , Federoff et al (2008), Bygstad et al (2008) and Slany (2009a, 2009b) Practices (23.5%) Ferre et al (2005aFerre et al ( , 2005b, Meszaros and Aston (2006), Chamberlain et al (2006), Anwar (2006), Parsons et al (2007), Memmel et al (2007aMemmel et al ( , 2007c, Detweiler (2007), Sy (2007), Wolkerstorfer et al (2008), Hussain et al (2008Hussain et al ( , 2009, Evnin and Pries (2008), Sy and Miller (2008), Obendorf and Finck (2008), Fox et al (2008), Ambler (2008), Adikari et al (2009), Miller and Sy (2009), Budwig et al (2009), Benigni et al (2010) and Sohaib and Khan (2010) Process (4.4%) Patton (2002aPatton ( , 2002b, Constantine (2002), Hansson (2002), Blomkvist (2005), Lee (2006Lee ( , 2010, Miller (2006), , Memmel et al (2007b), Haikara (2007), Duchting et ...…”

A Blended Process Model for Agile Software Development with Lean Concept

“…Salo and Abrahamsson (2005) have done an empirical study on Agile software development integration with software process improvement, where they state continuous improvement of Agile software development processes is important in enhancing the capabilities of the project members and the organization as a whole. Miller and Sy (2009) have indicated an extensive summary of factors that affects Agile software processes, where the major concerns are concentrated on aspects such as poor communication, lack of expertise for autonomous development, weak value flow, dependency issues, etc. Essentially, this provides an excellent arena to perform Lean practices along with Agile process as a remedy; The Lean principle more or less address most of these issues in a more flexible manner where agility could not be successful.…”

Determinants for Successful Agile Collaboration between UX Designers and Software Developers in a Complex Organisation

“…The integration of these two approaches, which have coexisted for more than a decade, created a substantial amount of research interest. As described by Law & Lárusdóttir (2015) the application of UCD methods in software development processes has been very much encouraged and several methods such as Agile UCD (Beyer, 2010), Agile UX (Miller & Sy, 2009) and Lean UX (Gothelf & Seiden, 2013) are examples of such an effort to integrate the two approaches. Despite this, Agile methodologies and its variants (Dybå & Dingsøyr, 2008;see Inayat et al, 2015) are often perceived to be at odds with User-Centred Design (UCD) techniques (Salah, Paige and Cairns, 2014).…”