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Friday, August 26, 2011

How PD works in Agile team

By Dingshan Li

PD (Product designer) is very important role in software development. They will provide detail requirements specification and business workflow, UI workflow. In traditional software development process, PD will prepare the detail requirement design document before develop team start to make software design. This kind of process will work pretty well if the requirements are clear and relatively stable. Also, there are enough PD resources to make the complex documents. But most of time, we cannot figure out the whole requirements clearly at the start stage. And the scope change is often happen. Another factor is that PD always need to work on more than one product and it is very difficult for them to spend much of time to work out a detail design document. So, what can we do to deal with this kind of issues?

Agile provides a methodology or framework for the team to develop software under the situation of changing scope. By focusing on high value requirement, separating the long lifecycle to be several short iterations and guarantee fully-test in each iteration, it can provide high-quality and expected software to the client. In this kind of framework, how PD works in the team? How they collaborate with others

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