Nielsen on agile development & UX

A couple of articles by Jakob Nielsen - one late 2008, one late 2009 - in which he looks at the advantages of agile development and the challenges of integrating the user experience into the process. The second article reflects on how things have moved on in this new and rapidly evolving field.


Unsurprisingly, his latest conclusions are:

Agile UX is good, but can get better... Agile projects aren't yet fully user-driven, but new research shows that developers are... [becoming] ...more bullish on key user experience issues...

Agile Development Projects and Usability (2008) - article by Jakob Nielsen

Agile User Experience Projects (2009) - article by Jakob Nielsen