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Agile methods have proven their worth in keeping a development team focused on producing high- quality code quickly. But these methods generally have little to say about how to incorporate user-centered design techniques. Also the question has been raised whether agile methods can scale up to larger systems design. In this paper we show how one user-centered design method, Contextual Design (CD), forms a natural fit with agile methods and recount our experience with such combined projects.
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Beyer, H., Holtzblatt, K., Baker, L. (2004). An Agile Customer-Centered Method: Rapid Contextual Design. In: Zannier, C., Erdogmus, H., Lindstrom, L. (eds) Extreme Programming and Agile Methods - XP/Agile Universe 2004. XP/Agile Universe 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3134. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27777-4_6
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