Sprint: Agile specifications in Shockwave and Flash

ABSTRACT

Digital product development teams have trouble coordinating specification assets, both in the effort to represent a stable design in multiple specification forms, and particularly when a changing context causes requirement changes. The Agile process movement avoids cumbersome specifications by prescribing faster release cycles, more parallel development, and greater requirement flexibility.Sprint is both a method and a tool designed to allow an Agile approach to product development while supporting best practices for user-centered design. Unlike more comprehensive modeling and configuration management products, Sprint is for smaller teams to use for design and specification, and allows designers to stay synchronized with customers, analysts, and developers.Driven by Shockwave or Flash prototypes, Sprint links project assets, such as personas, scenarios, screen designs, storyboards, requirements, and use cases, to form interactive specifications. By eliminating asset redundancies and supporting multiple asset fidelities, Sprint reduced our administrative documentation tasks, accelerated client/user feedback, and improved team coordination.

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• Human-centered computing

  • Interaction design

    • Interaction design process and methods