Author Archives: Bob Galen

Distributed Agile Teams: The Art of the START

For some,integrating testers into agileteams stands to be the real challenge, especially when working with distributed agile teams. I’ve sharedagilemethods for over ten years at conferences and workshops. One of the top three questions I always receive from attendees is: Does Agile work with distributed teams? A Tale of Two Distributed Teams The “Bad to Ugly” Establish the Team(s) Train the Team Together Establish Norms, Standards, and a Character Sprint Review Together! Wrapping Up

Addendum - An Agile UX Story

In myprevious postI shared about experience I’ve had in “connecting” UX activity into Scrum development teams. I tried to explain a pattern of collaborative partnering over either embedded UX in the teams or independent UX outside of the teams. I thought I’d share another story that illustrates an aspect of these ideas.

How should UX work in Agile?

Matt Kortering of Universal Mind, wrote a blog post aboutHow UX Fits Within a SAFe Environment. Lately I’ve been thinking about and writing about the scaling models, so a part of this fits well with current themes. But I don’t want you to get stuck on the SAFe bits here. I truly want this to be a generic blog post about handling UX concerns and x-team integration within anyagilemethod or approach. Here’s what Matt had to say towards the end of his post: