Presentation: "10:25 - 10:45 Introduction: Reflections of a Usability Team"
Track:
Software Usability for software developers
Time:
Wednesday 10:15 - 10:45
Location:
Westminster Suite
Abstract: TBA
Presentation: "Bridging Usability Specialists with Developers: The link to the developer world"
Track:
Software Usability for software developers
Time:
Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00
Location:
Westminster Suite
Abstract:
Usability people gather information from the user community using
techniques such as contextual design: following the users to seek out
practices and context that figure strongly in usability. Usability
folks then need to convey these insights to a design and coding
community that understands classes and bits but which lacks both
customer contact and the skills for analyzing human behavior.
Software developers, on the other hand, understand formalisms such as
Use Cases, from which they can derive objects and mechanisms to drive
software development, but they don't know how to use Use Cases to
ferret out key usability concerns. In fact, these two skill sets
complement each other well -and Diana, Susan, and Gertrud will offer
their respective perspectives on how to combine these two worlds. With a small set of conventions, Use Cases make great tools for capturing many traditional usability concerns.
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Gertrud's work specializes in Use Cases and requirements
management using Agile approaches. Her career has spanned
academics, development and consulting in the IT sector. She is
an accomplished project manager specializing in Agile approaches.
She is an expert on Use Cases, and developed the first patterns for the
application of Use Cases in development projects. She was a founding
program committee member of VikingPLoP and is one of the founders
of the Danish Agile User Group.
