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- Hansson, Christina, et al.
(författare)
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Agile Processes Enhancing User Participation for Small Providers of Off-the-Shelf Software
- 2004
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Ingår i: XP 2004. - 978-3-540-22137-1 ; s. 175-183
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- To survive in todayrsquos competitive software market, software developers must maintain contact with their customers and users and adopt a flexible organization which allows response to feedback and the changing requirements from the use-context. This also requires a software development that enables change proposals and error reports to be acted upon quickly. The present article uses a case study of a flexible development practice which so far has proved to be sustainable and successful to reconsider user involvement and software development practices of small software providers from an agile perspective. Implementing an agile process may allow for competitive flexibility without necessarily jeopardizing quality.
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- Hansson, Christina, et al.
(författare)
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How to include users in the development of off-the-shelf software A case for complementing participatory design with agile development
- 2006
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Ingår i: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper describes and discusses a non-traditional approach to participatory design, one which is combined with an agile-like software development process. In this case, the size of the company combined with a distributed population of users has a serious impact on the software development process. The small software company in our study resolves this problem with an unconventional amalgam of participatory design and agile processes which seems to suit their situation. By using different kinds of user participation the small software provider is able to keep in contact with users on a daily basis. Users convey requirements for new functionalities, give feedback and report errors. Users' feedback and proposals form the basis for further development. The paper relates our observations to other research on participatory design in unconventional settings and discusses the conditions under which agile software development can complement participatory design.
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- Hansson, Christina, et al.
(författare)
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The development is driven by our users not by ourselves-including users in the development of off-the-shelf software
- 2003
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Ingår i: Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article describes a non-traditional approach to Participatory Design where distributed users have a serious impact on a software development process. The small software provider makes use of a non-traditional way of Participatory Design combined with an agile development approach. By using for among other things support service, user meetings, courses and news letter they are able to on a daily bases keep in contact with users. Users convey requirements for new functionalities, give feedback and report errors. Users’ feedback and proposals form the base for further development. Frequent re-leases allow the company to quickly implement improvements and bug-fixes. The article relates the observed practices to other research on Participatory Design in unconventional settings and discusses how to expand the Participatory Design toolbox.
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