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Personas Go Agile

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To manage software development, many companies have over the past 20 years been applying agile processes. The waterfall model contains an iterative process, but makes it difficult to change during development, as it defines the final product from the beginning.

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    Lene Nielsen

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Nielsen, L. (2019). Personas Go Agile. In: Personas - User Focused Design. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-7427-1_6

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