A few years ago, I worked at a company that had recently adopted Extreme Programming. After slogging through a few books about how XP worked, I refused to do the putting requirements on 3″ x 5″ cards, falling back to what I was comfortable with — wireframes. The wireframes were never really complete and detailed, but for six months, we ran an Agile development framework that ran on rails — so smooth, in fact, that we rarely pulled features.
That was a pretty small team. In larger teams, Thinking and Making talks about a change to their development process that successfully handled managing the requirements gathering process in an Agile environment. Read on…
Patrick Neeman is Director of User Experience at Jobvite, a social recruiting platform and runs both the UX Drinking Game and Startup Drinking Game | More | Contact