Just Married: User Centred Design and Agile

User Centred Design (UCD) and Agile Development are two of the most exciting and productive Methods to achieve high quality appication both desired by the customers and loved by the users. UCD and Agile Development are though often said to be impossible to combine and that despite their great advantages any attempt would most certainly lead to disaster.
This talk Picks up the main points of both methods, shows the key problems and tries to offer a pragmatic approach on how to successfully combine User Centered Design and Agile Development.

Points covered:
- UCD:
-- No Design without research: the idea behind UCD
-- Why early Developer integration is key
- Agile:
-- A short recap: Roles and Processes
- Issues:
-- The Waterfall/Agile misconception
-- The race condition: Integrating User Tests
-- Lost in translation: preventing UCD > dev0
-An example Workflow
-- Key processes
-- Essential Deliverables
-- Ownership regulation