A step away from functional-spec-driven process

June 07, 2006

Nice post over at TargetProcess on planning in a relatively agile way. Outline of steps:

  • Identify users
  • Define user goals
  • Define user usage patterns
  • Invent functional solution to satisfy user goals and usage patterns, and step-by-step outline of steps in each process
  • Sketch UI’s on whiteboard and capture with digital camera
  • Iterate UI a little to improve it
  • Start development

This isn’t following a pure Agile methodology, but might be a useful transitional process away from a more rigid functional-spec-driven process.