Challenges and Solutions to Bringing User-Centered Design Practices Into Agile Development

Challenges and Solutions to Bringing User-Centered Design Practices Into Agile Development

Is your organization considering a migration to agile development processes? Is your design team struggling with development lifecycles that move at a snail’s pace? The agile development movement is catching on quickly within organizations—for good reason. Agile processes have many advantages over traditional application development including faster development lifecycles, improved product quality, and the reduction of “feature creep.”

Using agile methods, in as little as three weeks, design teams can go from initial concept to deployment. Yet, three weeks is a very short time in the world of user-centered design. How do you incorporate traditional techniques, such as usability testing and field research, into these dramatically shortened development cycles?

In this full-day seminar, Jeff Patton will provide you with solid, proven techniques to integrate user-centered design into the development process. Since 2000, Jeff has been heavily involved in agile methods and is the premier expert on how to incorporate user-centered design practices into your agile projects. Jeff will show you how to best collaborate with your team members, receive continuous involvement from your users, and start development right away without a big up-front requirements analysis. After spending a day with him, you'll have gathered all of the essential details you need to work in a fast-paced agile environment with great results.