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Integrating UX into the Product Backlog

Boxes and Arrows

Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide. Pearson Education, 2004. [2] “Agile Development: Lessons learned from the first scrum” Cutter Agile Project Management Advisory Service, Executive Update, Vol. 20, 2004: [link]. [3] User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development.

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What is design thinking and how can it help you innovate?

hackerearth

Since then, around 115 professionals from 12 countries, spanning various industries like software development, consulting, manufacturing, and marketing, have taken the online course. The course boasts of an 89 percent completion rate, thus proving its value.

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People Are Irrational, But Teams Don't Have to Be

Harvard Business Review

Here's a case in point: In 2004, my HBS colleague Gary Pisano and I conducted a project at a leading manufacturer of highly sophisticated production equipment for the electronics industry, which I'll call "Exotech." The project ran successfully for hardware development, and the project management tools worked exactly as expected.

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Does Hardware Even Matter Anymore?

Harvard Business Review

Many software developers will tell you that the whole history of the software industry can be described by increasing levels of abstraction. For product designers, the first implication of the software-replaces-hardware trend is that a much higher proportion of the value of a product will be in the electronics.

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

The methodology is Continuous Development, which, like agile, began as a software development methodology. Rather than improving software in one large batch, updates are made continuously, piece-by-piece, enabling software code to be delivered to customers as soon as it is completed and tested.

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IT on Steroids: The Benefits (and Risks) of Accelerating Technology

Harvard Business Review

By 2004, RIM had acquired 1 million subscribers and only three years later surpassed the 10 million mark. A second accelerant of IT delivery is the iterative software development philosophy known as "agile development." In 1998, RIM launched the BlackBerry. A year later, the second version got a full keyboard.

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6 Reasons Platforms Fail

Harvard Business Review

Failure to engage developers. The platform owner must also show software developers what’s in it for them if they contribute. In 2013, Johnson Controls invited developers to help them build Panoptix, an energy efficiency platform for buildings and office space.