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by William Pietri :: Rate this Message:

The way I normally apply Agile methods, teams work on things together.

If your product needs developers and designers, I think they should be
on the same team. At the beginning of the sprint, the product manager
picks stories for the team to do, and over the course of the sprint, the
team completes team. When the team succeeds, they succeed together. And
when they fail, they also fail together.

It's true that at any given moment, a given individual may be working on
a given story. But I think things work best when the relationship
between an individual and a story is relatively loose and arrived at
dynamically. My most successful clients have designers and developers
working together fluidly based on what the story needs at the time.

Does that help answer your question?

William

Srinivas Manda wrote:

> Thanks William, the problem is in Agile you know that we always buy
> stories and work on them in sprints ...
> designers always do early designs so that it can be usability tested
> before developers actually code it ....
>
> in iteration zero if designers work on the features that time
> developers might buy some stories (technical) and they are busy with it...
>
>
> 1. Put everybody in the same room.
> if developers are working on other stories how can they be part
> of design stories
> 2. When designers design, encourage them to frequently get feedback
> from the developers.
> developers are busy with other stories how can they contribute
> of the stories that designers might have bought
> 3. When developers develop, encourage them to frequently get
> feedback from the designers.
>
>
> -laksinu
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* William Pietri <mailto:william@...>
> *To:* agile-usability@...
> <mailto:agile-usability@...>
> *Sent:* Monday, March 09, 2009 4:38 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [agile-usability] Question_Agile Process_ UIE
> Virtual Seminar
>
> Srinivas Manda wrote:
>
>> (in Iteration ZERO developers may not be ready to participate
>> with designer as they will work on some other technical tasks)
>>
>> Once we move on to SECOND Iteration and we will give Requirements
>> / Screens / Spec of the First feature to the developers so that
>> they can code it.. and this is where the problem comes **
>>
>> *Problem:* If there is a technical problem/Limitation that arises
>> for the designs that we already worked on ITERATION ZERO how do
>> we handle it?
>>
>
>
> My easy three-step solution:
>
> 1. Put everybody in the same room.
> 2. When designers design, encourage them to frequently get
> feedback from the developers.
> 3. When developers develop, encourage them to frequently get
> feedback from the designers.
>
>
> I've seen this approach work well for quite a number of successful
> teams. It turns out people are never too busy to talk with the guy
> sitting right next to them, especially when it makes both of their
> jobs easier.
>
> William
>
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