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Fitting UX people into scrum team

February 26, 2009 at 14:06 · Filed under Agile & Scrum, LinkedIn

Sergey Dmitriev talkingYesterday, I’ve been participating in a Debate about agile and usability.

Three Scrum Masters (I was one of them) and three UX people was sitting at the same table. Everyone of us should come with one suggestion about how to fit UX people into the scrum teams better.

Here is what’s been said.

Scrum Masters:
* Geir Amsjø: Use Feature Times (and sprint 0)
* Sergey Dmitriev: UX people can swallow their pride and contribute to the backlog
* Johannes Brodwall: UX people should become more versatile, so that they can contribute more

UX people:
* Jon Gunnar Wold: Developers should know their responsibilities
* Fredrik Matheson: Product Owner should be a pro
* Anders Fagerhus: UX people should stay one sprint ahead of developers

We had a really great talk and I want to thank all the participants. I also enjoyed talking to the audience in the free minutes: Miguel Calix (nice chat about combining PO and SM roles) and Marit Søholt Stokes about the importance of making the contracts better by having a paragraph or two about the customer responsibilities as a Product Owner (I really wanted to do a followup on this one).

Marit Søholt Stokes said,

May 26, 2009 @ 14:08

Interesting topics and still a lot to do in this area!
IT-projects and contracts – these aspects still needs attention:

1. Goals and requirements for the system/product to be made (all contracts have this)

2. Goals and requirements for the processes to be used (most IT-contracts lack this).
This means lack of the minimum requirements for -
- How to plan, run and manage the project
- Design of how the communication between supplier and customers should be handled
- Roles, responsibilities and authorities
- Good (and flexible enough) QA-processes
- Suppliers’ QA
- Customers’ QA!?
- External QA

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