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BoB: A Framework for Organizing Within-Iteration UX Work in Agile Development

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Integrating User-Centred Design in Agile Development

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Most research on Agile UCD recommends scheduling of UX work one iteration ahead of development. There is, however, some evidence arguing for an approach where software developers and UX specialists work in cross-functional teams conducting design and implementation tasks during the present iteration. This within-iteration approach can, for instance, improve communication between UX designers and software developers and thus help the team to better concentrate on value-adding work. This chapter discusses problems related to the iteration-ahead approach and introduces a framework called BoB (Best of Both Worlds) that utilizes the within-iteration approach to integrate UX work in agile development. Furthermore, we present guidelines related to factors that support the within-iteration approach and the cross-functional team.

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Our research has been supported by TEKES (Finnish funding agency for technology and innovation) as part of the Cloud Software and Need for Speed research programs of DIGILE (Finnish Strategic Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation in the field of ICT and digital business).

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    Kati Kuusinen

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    Gilbert Cockton

  2. School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Marta Lárusdóttir

  3. School of Physical Sciences and Computing, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom

    Peggy Gregory

  4. Department of Information Technolog, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Ă…sa Cajander

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Kuusinen, K. (2016). BoB: A Framework for Organizing Within-Iteration UX Work in Agile Development. In: Cockton, G., Lárusdóttir, M., Gregory, P., Cajander, Å. (eds) Integrating User-Centred Design in Agile Development. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32165-3_9

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