Chris Hawkins — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 05:05:24 GMT

HI everybody, great conversation, but I’m surprised that I haven’t heard a mention of newer tools like FlexBuilder, which can get your designs into action pretty dern quick, which is what you really want. Change it? No problemo – I say at 60% certainty, so like more input on that.

Of course, working in this IDE may require some collaboration with a semi-actionscript god, but if you have that luxury, or can even learn just a little of it, you can work very fast – at least that’s my initial go at this. I’d love to hear from long time users for using Flex for prototyping.

Personally, I’d rather learn a little ActionScript than more ways to use tricks in tools never meant for true animated storyboarding. Thoughts?

chris@usermatters.com

Chris Hawkins — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:58:08 GMT

Jon -

I appreciate the attention to detail in measuring and validating user stories. Are you seeing agile process as inclusive of the product planning stage? I don’t see that and just to clarify, I wouldn’t expect it either in the iterative design- in- production phase.

What is often confusing and lacking in these discussions and agile formulas is the recognition that the early gathering of user goals and user requirements is fundamentally a different process, where user research and PO’s work hand in hand th ideate and evnision product. That is not a development process. Until you have your general initiative and research done (including such things as personas), you can’t very well chunk out the individual stories for development. I think that is the problem with taking one ideology and trying to make it fit for the whole product lifecyle (which is much wider than the product software development life cyle, for which I think agile can work very well).

Perhaps you are making those assumptions ( that product planning has already occurred). A lot of folks though are bundling it all into one big blob…I’d like to hear your take on this.

Boxes and Arrows: Comments by Chris Hawkins