Lean UX: Getting Out of the Deliverables Business (London IA - Feb 7 2012) Agile is Wrong for UX. When something is wrong, it deviates from truth or fact.
And I can say, with more confidence than ever, that traditional Agile software development methodologies (i.e. Scrum) are wrong for UX. In order to prove my case, I want to take you back to the inception of Agile (as I have read and experienced it) and its related software development methodologies. Why We Need Storytellers at the Heart of Product Development. There's an interesting question on Quora right now: If you had to pick between an amazing product designer or an amazing engineer to build a new company around, which would you pick and why?
This question reflects a painful problem that is common at both small startups and large corporate organizations. Getting stakeholder buy-in for (Lean) UX: An interview with Janice Fraser of Luxr - We Love Lean.