Investigating Agile User-Centered Design in Practice: A Grounded Theory Perspective
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This paper investigates how the integration of agile methods and User-Centered Design (UCD) is carried out in practice. For this study we have applied grounded theory as a suitable qualitative approach to determine what is happening in actual practice. The data was collected by semi-structured interviews with the professionals who have already worked in the integrated agile UCD methodology. Further data was collected by observing the professionals in their working context, and studying their documents, where possible. The emerging themes that the study found show that in agile team members there is increasing realization for the importance of usability in software development. The requirements are emerging; and both low and high fidelity prototypes based usability tests are highly used in agile teams. There is the appreciation of the each other’s work of both UCD professionals and developers and both sides learn from each other.
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