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Title: User Requirements for the 21st Century (User-Centred Design in Agile)
Proposer: william_hudson
Type: Tutorial
Duration: 90 minutes
Description: The role of IT has changed enormously in the past 20 years, yet how we go about eliciting requirements and developing software is firmly rooted in the last century (Agile stems from practices at the Lockheed Skunk Works in the 1940s). To build usable systems with good user experience we need user-centred design; itself not new but eminently more suited to building interactive solutions. This tutorial is based on William’s August 2012 article of the same title in Agile Record magazine. In it he describes the industrial heritage of Agile and the need to adopt user-centred design if we are to meet the increasingly diverse needs of our customers and users. Topics include the “empathy gap” that can prevent development teams from understanding these needs; the psychological basis for user-focussed tools such as personas and the practical issues of accommodating user-centred design in an Agile approach.
Roger: one of several agile-ish talks. I'm not sure this one grabs me as much as some of the others
[Ewan: YES. Pending my reading the article, but sounds interesting]
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