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Balancing Speed with User Needs: How to Avoid Sacrificing Good UX in Agile Projects User-Centric Agile Development integrates UX research and design into the agile process to ensure user needs are met throughout development. This article debunks myths about UX in agile and outlines strategies for achieving a balance between speed and user-centered design, emphasizing the importance of communication, user-value focus, and continuous improvement. |
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Continuous Delivery in Agile: Trends and Insights Continuous delivery (CD) and agile development are practices that complement each other well, with CD providing a set of techniques that can help make agile implementations more successful. As continuous delivery practices evolve, several trends have emerged, shaping the future of agile development. These trends assist organizations in improving their software quality and speeding up the delivery process. |
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Estimation: What It Takes to Deliver Consumable Value in Agile Projects Releasing in small batches is a good way to achieve quick feedback in your sprints, but these pieces don't have all the features users need. Providing consumable value is turning those small bites into a meal, and it’s worthwhile to estimate what it will take to deliver that—asking, “What consumable value do we expect to achieve, what duration and cost should we plan for, and how likely is it that the plan will succeed?” |
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User Story Heuristics: Understanding Agile Requirements Agile emphasizes just-in-time requirements rather than upfront preparation. The requirements person—be it the product owner, business analyst, product manager, or someone else—embodies the understanding of what is needed, and the user story represents the work that needs doing. This article details what user stories are (and what they are not). |
Better Software Magazine Articles
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Automation’s Role in the Fall of Software Testing Has the rise in test automation resulted in product releases of lesser quality? Besides adopting more comprehensive automated scripting, there are process and organizational dynamics to consider. |
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Incorporating User Experience into Early Agile Cycles Chris Nodder explores the emerging need to focus on a software app's user experience. It doesn’t have to cost a fortune to perform some basic user experience analysis as long as it is done early and tested throughout a project’s lifecycle. |
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Usability Testing with "CAN I USE THIS?" David introduces a unique approach for application usability testing. Each letter of the memorable "CAN I USE THIS?" will assist with test idea generation. |
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No One Left Behind: Make Time for Accessibility Testing Ten percent of the world's population lives with some sort of disability. So, is your software product optimized accessible to these people? Rajini Padmanaban takes a look at the different types of disabilities out there and the ways to ensure your product works well with as many of these needs as possible. |
Interviews
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Mobile App UX and Usability: An Interview with Philip Lew
Podcast
In this interview, Philip Lew, the CEO of XBOSoft, talks about his upcoming presentation, how user experience relates to mobile, the connection usability shares with UX, and how your company can take an important first step towards improving your mobile user experience. |
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How to Boost UX with Persona Research: An Interview with Nellie LeMonier Nellie LeMonier shares firsthand experience with persona research and why its time and cost are well worth everyone's effort. By making sure that everyone is on board with persona research and is aware of its importance, you will help ensure that your project's UX is truly something special. |
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The Future Is Mobile Technology: An Interview with Jonathan Kohl Jonathan Kohl discusses where he thinks technology is headed, how mobile devices are changing what we test, and what all that time we spend socializing online is doing to workplace productivity. |
Conference Presentations
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Authoring an Accessibility Story
Slideshow
You'll learn character development techniques to build customer personas, strategies for plotting a "story" end to end, and tips for projecting potential obstacles. |
Elizabeth Langston
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Vulnerabilities and Bugs in Mobile Apps with Quick Tours
Slideshow
As mobile devices, tools, operating systems, and web technologies rapidly evolve, testers in this changing domain must quickly adapt their thinking. Testers often struggle to find critical vulnerabilities and bugs in mobile applications due to lack of guidance, experience, and the right... |
Raj Subramanian
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Use Business Analysts for User Interface Design
Slideshow
Have you experienced difficulties eliciting “what would you like the system to do” from customers and SMEs? Have you then delivered the system only to find that the users don’t like it, even though it meets their stated requirements exactly? Cathy Sargent shares a technique for using... |
Cathy Sargent
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Usability Testing Goes Mobile
Slideshow
The introduction of mobile devices and applications presents new challenges to traditional usability testing practices. Identifying the differences between usability testing techniques for traditional desktop applications and mobile applications is critical to ensuring their acceptance and... |
Susan Brockley, ExxonMobil
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