Ironworks' Tom Illmensee, an information architect in the user experience group, presented at this year's Agile 2009 Conference in Chicago. 

Illmensee's presentation "5 Users Every Friday: A Case Study in Applied Research" focused on how usability and user experience research can be adapted and even flourish within Agile / Scrum, a highly collaborative and fast-paced software engineering culture. The presentation was based on his experiences working for a  large consumer electronics retailer.

Agile 2009 is an international conference about techniques and technologies, attitudes and policies, research and first-hand experience, from both the management and technical sides of agile software development. The agile approach focuses on delivering business value early in the project lifetime and being able to incorporate emergent requirements. It accentuates the use of rich, informal communication channels and frequent delivery of running, tested systems, while attending to the human component of software development.

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