Usability and User Experience Resources
Idea Market Afterthoughts 2005

Changing Perspective: How Technical Communicators Can Be Valued as a Core Competency, Not a Commodity

Activator: Karen Bachmann

• What are the key phases and related usability tasks in a typical development life cycle?
• When in a schedule crunch, which tasks are "must completes" and which will get dropped?
• How do you communicate the usability priorities in each phase to management?
• When do you start each task in relationship to the overall development effort?

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