On February 9th, I will be presenting at an Agile Academy Meetup in Brisbane on combining agile and usability. Over the past 3 years at Suncorp, my primary focus in my role has been to combine usability with agile. This has been a challenging endeavour for two main reasons:
Traditional usability closely resembles the traditional software development approach in its formality and insistence on up-front analysis and design. Usability is iterative, but not agile.- Suncorp undergoing extensive change with the rollout of Agile across the enterprise and integration activities after aquiring the Promina group in 2007.
Owing to these challenges, I have focussed on minimising the tension between agile and usability approaches by leveraging the common values shared by both techniques in software development. The techniques I have forumulated to use with our Agile projects are derived from approaches employed by Jeff Patton, Allan Cooper, Steve Krug, Robert Hoekman Jr, Jesse James Garrett and Stephen Anderson.
My presentation will explore the following topics:
- The differences between Agile & Usability
- Shared Common Values
- Applying Garrett’s Five Elements of User Experience
- Rapid User Research Techniques (Goals & Needs Analysis; PACT Workshops)
- Persona Development
- Conceptual Design
- Avoiding “Featuritus”
- Parallel Track Development
I have structured the presentation so that anyone from a project manager to a developer can begin employing some of these agile and usability friendly techniques into their projects. This presentation will be held on Level 28 of Brisbane Square, 266 George Street, Brisbane starting at 5.30pm. If you would like to attend this free event, seats are limited, so please RSVP on the Agile Academy Meetup site.
Hope to see you there on February 9th!
The Video & Slide Deck from this Presentation are now online
The Agile Academy have published the video and slide deck for this presentation on their website:
Enjoy!
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