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User-Centered Design?

Blog on January 27th, 2010 0 Comments

My colleague Mauricio and I were confronted with a very practical problem yesterday that left us thinking quite a bit about user-centered design.
We are in Barcelona working at a client site and on the way back to our company apartment, we got a bit distracted talking about software and, as we walked down the stairs [...]

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User Stories as a “Glue Language”

Blog on January 12th, 2010 0 Comments

While working with one of our clients over the past few months, we had a large “us and them” divide between their business and technical staff. We quickly realised that we needed a common language that would build a bridge between the two groups. Of course, being a BDD adept, I thought that User Stories [...]

New Technologies At the Service of Civil Society

Blog on March 21st, 2009 0 Comments

Pollenizer’s focus is on building web businesses, you can see that through the focus of our site, our blog posts and our experiences. However, something you might not know, is that many of us are also quite interested in the impact that technology has on civil society (NGO’s, not-for-profit).
Today, I had the privilege of sharing [...]

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Visual communication in agile projects

Blog on February 18th, 2009 0 Comments

Earlier today, I received this picture (click on the thumbnail since it’s quite large and needs to be seen in its full splendor) from Xavier, a friend that’s a practicing Agile Coach and PM in Belgium. Xavier has just started a fantastic blog on visual management for agile teams, you should definitely check the first [...]

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