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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

For the hardware: A thousand songs in your pocket ; for the software: so easy that your Mother could do it ; and for the project: and on the shelves in eight months ! As Bill Fischer highlights in his ‘Innovating The iPod’ article; “The goals articulated by the leadership were surprisingly simple, broad yet precise.

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So You Wanna Build a Library, Eh?

Boxes and Arrows

The following article is an abridged version of Chapter 7 of Nathan Curtis’s 2009 book, Modular Web Design published by New Riders. Patterns offer principles to follow and avoid specifics like style, editorial guidelines, page location, and finalized code. That person may be you, or someone you manage or work with.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

This dichotomy delivered by the financial pressure is unfortunately pushing many leaders and top managers towards suboptimal decisions that tend to focus more on survival and not enough on investing in the future. For example, Delta Air Lines, one of the leading airlines, managed to get back to their leading position even after bankruptcy.

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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

It’s estimated that a loss of more than $2 trillion in world-wide economic growth occurred between the second quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009. Businesses looking to discover how to beat a recession with idea management and continuous improvement would also do well to adopt it. This is where Qmarkets comes to the fore.

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What is idea management and why is it important for any business

hackerearth

What is idea management? Top management world over is now running helter-skelter demanding innovation. Another definition hinting at its pivotal role in innovation is this: “Idea management is facilitating the flow from idea generation to idea conversion in the innovation value chain” (Hansen & Birkinshaw, 2007).

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The General Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

Project Management for Stakeholder Interviews. With respect to software, this diversity is usually due to what people think will be in the first (or next) version versus what will be in later versions. There may be variation due to a poor understanding of who the users are. Project Management for Stakeholder Interviews.