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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