On Saturday the Agile Bench team attended Product Camp Sydney.  The Brainmates crew did a spectacular job getting the whole event together and promoting it so well that close to 100 people attended.  My favourite part was that everyone participated, the feeling was relaxed and most importantly, it was fun. I was fortunate enough to rack …

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We love unconferences.  They are dynamic, fluid, relaxed, fun and informative.  A lot less stuffy and formal that regular conferences or user groups / meetups. Product Camp (or PCamp for those in the know) Sydney is being held on the 4th of June at the Brainmates offices and provides a place for product professionals to …

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We’ve been very busy at Agile Bench HQ but we’ve also been very quiet.  Over the last few months we’ve put a significant amount of effort into providing a Story Wall interface.  We’ve had many of our customers request an interface that resembles a physical story wall with cards and today we’re providing it. Please …

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Agile should be the product managers friend, but at times it can feel like you’ve lost all control especially when you can’t work on product development 100% of the time because of all the other things you have to get done. So what should you do, do you hand off your other responsibilities to the …

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We find this is one of the most common questions asked within the companies we have worked and with the people in our teams. The typical view of agile is that its all about hacking the code, no documentation and developers going off and doing their own thing, whereas with UX and User Centred Design …

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Agile is a term many people have heard of but perhaps don’t fully know what it means. Agile refers to a group of software development methodologies and techniques based around iterative development where requirements and solutions evolve over time through collaboration of cross-functional teams. The key premise behind the agile movement was that traditional software …

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Having used personas a long time ago at the BBC we are now using them again to define and validate features for Agile bench. I’m keen to make sure they are as real a possible and a friend pointed me a post by David Travis on Creating personas your design team will believe in, a …

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The first release of Agile Bench was built over the last 9 months (yes that’s a lot of weekends and nights). We  wanted to get a product into production as quickly as possible so we created an Information Architecture (IA) based around our domain model and then released this version to a group of close …

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Agile 2009 is huge. There are 1350 people with 23 streams of talks across 2 buildings, which is pretty crazy. It is impossible to get across the entire line-up of talks so you have to be selective. Thankfully the sessions are divided by experience, persona and some more general groupings. The persona divisions are pretty …

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The first release of Agile Bench was designed around the issues that have affected our own agile projects. We’re now thinking about what should come next and we wanted to understand what other agile teams think makes the difference between good and bad projects, success and failure. To help us with this, we’ve created a …

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