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Usability Work in Agile Systems Development Practice: A Systematic Review

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In this chapter we present the results of a systematic literature review of the recommendations in the existing research literature on usability work in agile systems development. The review contributes by summarizing the literature in light of seven claims about how to integrate usability work into an agile development project. By analyzing the claims we show how the previous literature provides grounds, warrants, backing, rebuttal, and qualification with regard to each of them. From this comprehensive overview of the literature we then discuss a research agenda with a particular focus on how situational factors for the claims must be researched and how this must encompass identified rebuttals and qualifications.

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  1. Department of Information Systems, University of Agder, Agder, Norway

    Adeola Wale-Kolade & Peter Axel Nielsen

  2. Research Centre for Socio-Interactive Design, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Peter Axel Nielsen

  3. Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering Computer and Systems Science, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

    Tero Päivärinta

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Wale-Kolade, A., Nielsen, P.A., Päivärinta, T. (2013). Usability Work in Agile Systems Development Practice: A Systematic Review. In: Linger, H., Fisher, J., Barnden, A., Barry, C., Lang, M., Schneider, C. (eds) Building Sustainable Information Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7540-8_44

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