Follow-up from "Agile UX Method Adaptation" half-day course at CHI 2012

by Desirée Sy and John Schrag

We would like to thank the attendees of the half-day course at the CHI 2012 conference, “Agile UX Method Adaptation,” for their energy, attention, and thoughtful questions.

As mentioned during the course, here are a collected set of references mentioned during the course, beginning with the refreshed series of slides:

• Slides from "Agile UX Method Adaptation"
  Desirée Sy and John Schrag, UPA 2011.
• “Adapting Usability Investigations for Agile User-Centered Design”
  Desirée Sy, JUS, May 2007. http://tiny.cc/agileUCD (or Sy_agile-ucd.pdf)
• “Case Study of Customer Input For a Successful Product”
  Lynn Miller. Agile 2005. 
• Agile manifesto
  http://agilemanifesto.org/
• Mike Cohn's site, http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/, has a lot of helpful information if you want to learn more about the Scrum flavour of Agile Development.
• “Interaction Designers and Agile Development: A Partnership”
  Lynn Miller. UPA 2006.  
• “Using Formative Usability Testing as a Fast UI Design Tool”
  John Schrag. UPA 2006
• “Using the RITE method to improve products; a definition and a case study”
  Michael C. Medlock, Dennis Wixon, Mark Terrano, Ramon L. Romero, Bill Fulton.
• “Formative usability investigations for  open-ended tasks”
  Desirée Sy. UPA 2006
• “Usability Testing with User Proxies: When is ‘Close’ Close Enough?”
  Desirée Sy. DUX blog.
• Recurring user studies
  “It's Not Rocket Surgery - First Fridays in the U.S. Government”
  Nicole Burton, Steve Krug et al. UPA 2010
• "Distributed Scrum Primer"
  Pete Deemer et al.
• "Taking Aim: The Power of User Experience Goals"
  John Schrag, UX magazine, Volume 7, Issue 1, 2008