The web development team I work in works with a user experience team that follow User Centered Design principles. Together we all work within Scrum.
What best practices should we be aiming for to get great products delivered?
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You sound like middle management. Give all of your programmers pay increases and stay out of their way.
Frank Crook
2009-04-03 18:31:39
i work in the team. we have a big ux department that we don't get along with great yet. We want to make it better
Stewart Robinson
2009-04-03 18:46:30
@Stewart - You're speaking in enough buzzwords to be a middle manager. If your department is truly huge, you're going to need to need to break your users into small teams that work tightly. They usually coach the stupidity out of one another, and when they can't, you know there's a problem.
Frank Crook
2009-04-03 21:08:01
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Stewart, judging by your question and subsequent comments it sounds like you have a people problem as opposed to a project management problem. Scrum is great for prioritised, iterative delivery in a customer centric fashion but if the underlying human interaction is flawed you’re going to be fighting an uphill battle.
So in response to “what best practices you should be aiming for to get great products delivered”, start on the social side. If it’s a large group perhaps you have an HR department that can assist. It sounds like a bit of team building and mutual respect would be a good starting point then you can work on the business of actually creating software.
Troy Hunt
2009-05-04 09:18:46