[Sigia-l] How agile is agile?

[Samantha Bailey]

It's not a favorite way to work, especially as it can be a no-win
situation, but it's certainly a *very* common situation that I would
expect many if not most IAs who work as consultants to have found
themselves in from time to time. (And when working as an innie I've
experienced it as well; perhaps even more often.) It's not ideal, but
I've produced some work I've been pretty happy with even late in the
game. I think that if we turned up our noses at work that was
positioned in a way that was less than ideal, all but the absolutely
most talented and famous would go hungry.

sb

On 2/15/06, David Talley <dtalley at awwa.org> wrote:
> For my first post here, I'd like to ask for some practical feedback from
> IA and UX consulting types: How willing are you to join a project
> already in progress and give suggestions to improve the current state of
> things, knowing that you could have helped more if you'd been involved
> from the beginning?
>
> We've recently ended a relationship with someone whose expectations
> differed from ours about what constituted work products and how much
> time we as clients were to spend formatting documents in a way that the
> consultant found acceptable. (Bitter? Moi?) It's way too late to start
> over with someone else's idea of the Correct Process and full menu of
> Acceptable Deliverables (each with its price tag attached). But we would
> still like someone new to pass an experienced eye over the screen
> layouts and IA in light of some basic user test results. Is it too much
> to ask a new person to step in after things are already in motion?  Is
> that something you're used to doing, or would it compromise the
> standards of the profession?
>
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