Teale Shapcott — From ordered to managed usability in an Agile environment

Web Directions South 2008, Sydney Convention Centre, September 25 11.45am.

Session descrip­tion

Usability prac­tice closely resem­bles the tra­di­tional soft­ware devel­op­ment approach in its for­mal­ity and insis­tence on up-​​front analy­sis and design. Usability and design is an iter­a­tive process, but not agile. So how can design and usabil­ity be effec­tively embed­ded into an agile devel­op­ment envi­ron­ment? In this pre­sen­ta­tion, the ten­sion between agile devel­op­ment and usabil­ity is exam­ined and how Suncorp design and devel­op­ment teams over­came the chal­lenges to bridge the gulf between these approaches.

About Teale Shapcott

Portrait of Teale ShapcottTeale com­menced her career in web devel­op­ment and graphic design in 1998. She is cur­rently work­ing within Suncorp’s Business Technology divi­sion as a Designer for inter­nal web appli­ca­tions spe­cial­is­ing in web stan­dards, usabil­ity, acces­si­bil­ity, xHTML and CSS. Her pri­mary focus in her cur­rent role is embed­ding usabil­ity prac­tice into agile web devel­op­ment within Suncorp.

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