Wednesday, July 1, Austin UX will host a panel discussing how agile development teams and UX practitioners really collaborate in the wild. The panel will begin with four, brief presentations from local practitioners, describing what does and doesn't work in there experience. Using the presentations to help frame the discussion, we'll then spend the rest of the time answering questions, sharing strategies, and learning from each other.

Event information

• When: Wednesday, July 1 at 6:30 PM
• Where: Convio, 11501 Domain Drive, Suite 200, Austin, TX 78758 (map)

Space is limited to 30 people.

Agenda

• 6:30 PM - Networking
• 7:00 PM - Introduction and panel presentations begin
• 7:40 PM - Open discussion
• 8:30 PM - Event ends

Speakers

• Jack Alford has been a usability practitioner at IBM for 29 years, after receiving a PhD in Human Experimental Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. Jack has worked at several IBM development labs, with responsibility for office software, operating systems, and system management user interfaces. He is currently a user experience designer in the IBM Systems and Technology Group at IBM Austin, designing browser-based interfaces for several products that are in various stages of adoption of Agile methods, and is also a member of a Lean/Agile development process transformation team. Jack is a member of UPA. His non-work interests include sailing, organic gardening, and golf.
• Austin Govella has worked with agile methods since 2002. He is a user experience designer with Convio and co-authored the second edition of Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web with Christina Wodtke. He writes about better experience, better products, and better teams at his blog, Thinking and Making
• Hugh Morrow has been working on software GUIs for over 20 years, covering everything from tax software to enterprise dashboards. He currently works as a Senior UX Engineer at Borland, where the emphasis is on Agile development practices. Hugh's background is in the design disciplines, but he is very involved in usability assessment efforts and is particularly interested in Contextual Inquiry as a means of gaining insight into user experience.
• Don Turnbull was an assistant professor with the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. Don's teaching and research focused on designing Web information architectures, information systems analysis, Information Retrieval the Semantic Web and Knowledge Management Systems. In the nascent days of the World Wide Web, Don was the Lead Technical Architect at IBM Interactive Multimedia, working on the World Book/IBM Multimedia Encyclopedia and other large- scale information architecture design and development projects. Don received his doctorate from the University of Toronto focusing on Knowledge Discovery (Data Mining) for Informetric and Behavioral Models of Web Use.

More info

For more info, please contact Amy Jones at ajones at convio dot com.