Investigating agile user-centered design in practice: A grounded theory perspective

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5889 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 279-289

  Hussain, Zahid ^a   Slany, Wolfgang ^a   Holzinger, Andreas ^b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Agile methods; Extreme programming; Grounded theory; Interviews; Scrum; Usability; User centered design

Indexed keywords

AGILE METHODS; EXTREME PROGRAMMING; GROUNDED THEORY; INTERVIEWS; SCRUM; USABILITY; USER CENTERED DESIGNS;

DESIGN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SURVEYS;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 78650646271     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10308-7_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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