Title
A Systematic Mapping Study On Integration Proposals Of The Personas Technique In Agile Methodologies
Abstract
Agile development processes are increasing their consideration of usability by integrating various user-centered design techniques throughout development. One such technique is Personas, which proposes the creation of fictitious users with real preferences to drive application design. Since applying this technique conflicts with the time constraints of agile development, Personas has been adapted over the years. Our objective is to determine the adoption level and type of integration, as well as to propose improvements to the Personas technique for agile development. A systematic mapping study was performed, retrieving 28 articles grouped by agile methodology type. We found some common integration strategies regardless of the specific agile approach, along with some frequent problems, mainly related to Persona modelling and context representation. Based on these limitations, we propose an adaptation to the technique in order to reduce the creation time for a preliminary persona. The number of publications dealing with Personas and agile development is increasing, which reveals a growing interest in the application of this technique to develop usable agile software.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.3390/s21186298
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
personas, user profiling, human-computer interaction, user-centered design, agile methodology, software engineering, systematic mapping study
Journal
21
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
18
1424-8220
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Patricia Losana110.35
John W. Castro23510.47
Xavier Ferré310.35
Elena Villalba Mora410.35
Silvia Teresita Acuña57427.26