Evaluating eXtreme scenario-based design in a distributed agile team

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 863-877

  Lee, Jason Chong ^a   Judge, Tejinder K ^b   Scott McCrickard, D ^b  

^a Meridium Inc ^*  (United States)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Agile; Distributed development; Extreme scenario based design; Usability

Indexed keywords

AGILE; AGILE TEAMS; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; EXTREME SCENARIO-BASED DESIGN; SCENARIO-BASED DESIGN; USABILITY; VIRGINIA TECH;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 79957950294     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1979742.1979681     Document Type: Conference Paper

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