From the course: UX Research for Agile Teams
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Agile and scrum overview
- Before we talk too much about incorporating research into agile practices, let's take a step back and look at agile. Agile is an approach to developing software that became popular in the early 2000s. Traditional software development practices called for an initial period of requirements gathering and design work, then a long development stage wherein requirements cannot be adapted to new learnings. A variety of practitioners realized that this wasn't always the most effective way to build software that people really wanted and needed, and they began experimenting with methods to craft teams to work more efficiently and flexibly. The blending of these methods became the overall approach called agile. Agile is not a specific prescriptive process, but, rather, a shared set of values and principles that guide teams. The core values described in the agile manifesto are individuals and interactions over processes and tools, working software over comprehensive documentation, customer…
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