[Sigia-l] How the design process fits into the agile methodology

[Adrian Howard]

On 19 Feb 2007, at 18:37, Victor Lombardi wrote:

> I've seen both. The majority of people talk about concepts like
> "design" and "customers" but this is where the confusion starts,
> because the agilists may be referring to software design and not
> product design, or the business client and not the end user.
[snip]

"Customer", "Developer" and "Development Team" are other phrases that  
get confusing. Since "Customer" can often translate to "group who  
have final say on business value related decisions" and "developer"  
can mean anybody involved with creating the product (so programmers,  
testers, usability folk, etc.)

> The rare exception are folks like Alistair Cockburn and Jim Highsmith
> that do a great job of explaining how agile software practices meet
> product development and even business innovation. I highly recommend
> this article:
> http://alistair.cockburn.us/index.php/
> Agile_software_development:_the_business_of_innovation

I'd also thoroughly recommend his "Agile Software Development: The  
Cooperative Game"

Adrian