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Wednesday July 8, 2009

Planning Poker Cards by Mariusz Ciesla

Planning Poker cards for use in planning an agile project.

I would love to have a deck of these for project planning.

Image posted by Matt Donovan in Project Management, Strategy, Visual Design .

Monday June 8, 2009

The UXD Stack: How We Look At Projects

by Mark Kraemer

The UXD Stack - our project briefMany people in our profession use different kinds of “briefs” when they get started on a project. Most of our work is application development, but we also develop demonstrations, prototypes, proof of concept models, and even business presentations both internally and for our clients.

Regardless what we’re producing as the final deliverable, there’s a single formula for the up-front brief that we use to get a quick and successful start to the project. We think “The UXD Stack” is the simplest yet most effective perspective for all kinds of communication projects.

Article posted by Mark Kraemer in Consulting, Project Management, User Experience .

Monday June 30, 2008

Twelve emerging best practices for adding UX work to Agile development

UX and Agile Development

Very interesting article by Jeff Patton on how UX practitioners have adapted to work in Agile environments. We’ve had mixed experiences with Agile approaches. I realize the benefits to iterations and small changes, but its also hard to balance that with the long term planning sometimes required for things like global navigation. I’m particularly interested in extending what we have tried before for “parallel track development to work ahead, and follow behind.”

Image posted by Mark Kraemer in Infographic, Project Management, User Experience .