How will you, personally, define success for this project? How large is the development team assigned to the project, and what are their skills? Questions similar to those for marketing stake-holders, plus: What do I need to know that you don’t think other members of your team have said? Other product team members. MORE >>

To develop a completely new site requires several teams to collaborate and this can be difficult. Particularly as different teams may be working with different methods. This case study shows how the ComputerWeekly user experience team integrated with an agile development group. People make or break any project. MORE >>

Ideally, there is at least one executive involved who has cross-functional authority and can balance the perspectives of both marketing and engineering; you need this person to make critical decisions, such as what’s worth waiting a little longer for. What do we need to know that you don’t think other members of your team have said? MORE >>

As a manager you may be willing to hire the best talent for your team no matter where they’re located, but how do you go about determining if a potential hire is, in fact, excellent? You may also learn about other tools they’ve used that can be of value to your existing team. Handily, there are questions that can help. MORE >>

Teams moving to agile often struggle to integrate agile with best practices in user-centered design (UCD) and user experience (UX) in general. Agile methods were developed without consideration for UX best practices. Teams often fail to measure the UX impact of their iterative efforts. The feedback loop is broken. Footnotes. MORE >>