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Towards a Framework for Integrating Agile Development and User-Centred Design

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Due to a number of similarities between user-centred design (UCD) and agile development, coupled with an appreciation that developers are rarely usability experts, it seems attractive to integrate these two approaches. However, although agile methods share some of the same aims as UCD, there are also distinct differences. These differences have made the use of these methods on development projects problematic. This paper reports a field study designed to investigate the use of agile methods alongside UCD in one particular organization. The aim of the study was to develop a framework for use by project teams wishing to integrate UCD practices with agile development. The study, its findings and five principles for integrating UCD and agile development arising from this work are discussed.

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  • User Involvement
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  • Agile Method
  • Agile Development

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  1. Sovereign Court, Bit10 Ltd, Sir William Lyons Road, Coventry, CV4 7EZ, UK

    Stephanie Chamberlain

  2. Centre for Research in Computing The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK

    Helen Sharp

  3. Centre for HCI Design City University, Northampton Square London, EC1V 0HB, UK

    Neil Maiden

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  1. VTT Electronics, Oulu, Finland

    Pekka Abrahamsson

  2. FlossLab s.r.l., viale Elmas, 142, 09122, Cagliari, Italy

    Michele Marchesi

  3. Center for Applied Software Engineering Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Piazza Domenicani 1, 39100, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

    Giancarlo Succi

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Chamberlain, S., Sharp, H., Maiden, N. (2006). Towards a Framework for Integrating Agile Development and User-Centred Design. In: Abrahamsson, P., Marchesi, M., Succi, G. (eds) Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering. XP 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4044. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11774129_15

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