Easing team politics in agile usability: A concept mapping approach

Proceedings - 2009 Agile Conference, AGILE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 19-25

  Barksdale, Jeremy T ^a   Ragan, Eric D ^a   McCrickard, D Scott ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agile usability; Concept mapping; Dcog; Distributed cognition

Indexed keywords

AGILE DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT MAPPING; CONCEPT MAPS; DISTRIBUTED COGNITION; END USERS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOFTWARE TEAMS; TEAM COMMUNICATION; TEAM INTERACTION; THROUGH THE LENS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONFORMAL MAPPING; MAPPING;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 70449641369     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AGILE.2009.57     Document Type: Conference Paper

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