Agile development processes are a little different from the traditional approach. They focus on iteration, feedback, and incremental feedback. Todd Jefferson has written a great piece over on Simply Relevant describing how we use those processes at Iotum.
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Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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I agree Alec – Agile is important – but it's always been a development process (perhaps without the coolname ) that startups – or small team have used. In the UX (user interface and beyond) world that iterative process is even enshrined in ISO – iso13407… a good primer on this is on the
usabilitynet.org site
http://www.usabilitynet.org/tools/13407stds.htm
Absolutely Mitch. I think that's one of the reasons I was comfortable with the methodology early on. Elements of it were familiar!