Panel Discussion Topic submitted to UPA 2007 Conference

Who's role is it anyway?

A discussion about how to best integrate activities and deliverables to ensure usability across analysis, design, development, and quality assurance teams.

Enterprise software projects are delivered with defined teams typically owning artifacts associate with an individual phase. The goal of the proposed discussion is to look at ways to integrate usability and user centered design principles into the software development lifecycle without adding more meetings.

The conversation will take a look at meeting facilitation techniques to drive consensus and document decisions as well as ways to inject best practices without creating a tug of war.