What I realize more and more is that the end-users wants to be In Control . This applies especially with new developed applications that automates some of their work. By default users are skeptic. The application have to earn their trust. The more they get the feeling they are not in control, the less...
I’ve been on a fair amount of projects in the past 10 to 15 years and almost all of them were waterfall. I’ve become really, really great in being able to tell if a project will fail soon or later. Not sooner or later, but soon or later. My weakness however is that I’m not really able to tell how to...
When it comes to “good” and “bad” in User Experience Design, it’s all about making compromises. There are influences from marketing, management, development, design, sales, support, etc. In other words, almost every role or department within the development cycle has it’s own agenda on want they want...
There are multiple good reasons for using User Experience Design in your projects. I’ve already mentioned some in previous posts and probably in future posts. But the question remains how to use it in your project. I don’t think I’ll be able to explain all the details cause such integration requires...
What is a good way to specify requirements? I actually have no idea... I come across many different companies and a lot of them all have the same problem. The customer wants some problem to be solved and multiple people start thinking of a solution. Sometimes the technology is already chosen before the...
I'm reading "Dynamics of software development" by Jim McCarthy, kind of a mandatory when you work at Class-A. It's an 'old' book, considering how young IT actually is, but last year McCarthy published an updated version. The book contains 57 rules for delivering great software...
I'm currently reading Behind Closes Doors , written by Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby. It's released under the Pragmatic Bookshelf label, and they're a great read. I've just finished Pragmatic Unit Testing and they had some good info that will come in handy. Recently I downloaded a video of a Johanna...