Software product innovation in agile usability teams: an analytical framework of social capital, network governance, and usability knowledge management. (1st January 2012)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Barksdale, Jeremy T.; McCrickard, D. Scott
• Is Part Of: International journal of agile and extreme software development. Volume 1:Number 1(2012)
• Page Start: 52
• Page End: 77
• Publication Date: 2012-01-01
• Subjects: agile usability -- agile software development -- ASD -- usability engineering -- social capital -- network governance -- usability knowledge management; Agile software development -- Periodicals; eXtreme programming -- Periodicals; 005.1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-5137

Abstract

As the practice of software engineering matures, project teams are leveraging the expertise of those with a background in other domains such as usability. This paper proposes a model and agenda for understanding and improving social interaction on agile usability software teams. We argue that social interaction on multidisciplinary agile usability teams, as a means to integrating the software development and usability domains, impacts how usability knowledge is managed, and thus, software product innovation. This work contributes: 1 a background, analysis, and discussion of the various agile usability integration strategies to-date 2 a model for investigating the social interaction in agile usability teams 3 a research, practice, and policy agenda for future work toward improving the social interaction in multidisciplinary agile usability software teams.