Succeeding with Agile

Overlapping User Experience Design

Let’s look more closely at user experience design (UED) to see how some Scrum teams have successfully integrated user experience designers into their sprints. Understanding how this has been done for UED will also provide guidance on how to do this with database design, architecture, or other activities that may not initially seem as well suited to agile development.

On traditionally managed projects, UED is generally viewed as an up-front activity, preferably completed before other software development activities begin. UED work progresses in its own series of phased activities, typically starting with an assessment of current work practices and user needs and concluding with the creation of user interface ...