ISSD Fall 2009 School of Information, UC Berkeley

Unless the design projects taken on by an organization or team are always for the same context, with similar scope and requirements, they will not follow the same design methodology on every project. There will be always be a need to adapt the methodology in some way, emphasizing some activities more or less than usual because of schedule, resource, or stakeholder considerations. So in practice, the "methodology" employed in any given project is likely to be a subset of design techniques selected and adapted for it from a larger portfolio. IBM consulting calls this adaptation of its "standard" methodology the "Engagement Model."

Link to the podcast:  (if you click it, it should play in the browser, but you can also right-click (or Ctrl-click) and save to your local machine) http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i290-1/f09/Readings/ISSD-20090921.mp3