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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. When I left the company three years later, more than 150 teams at that company were using Scrum for developing both infrastructure and product features.

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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

Idea to Value

Originally, patents had a simple purpose: By filing a patent, an inventor or company showed how their new technology worked, in exchange for legal protection for the duration of the patent. billion , predominantly for the approximately $4 billion worth of patents it possessed around smartphone technology. Does this system still work?

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The Engineering Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

However, any technical group’s reluctance to give up control over design is usually due to the fact that so far, they’ve been the most competent to do it. In the case of a new product, the technology decisions would ideally happen once the design started to take shape, but this is not always the case.

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Augmented Reality: The time has come

etventure

Thereby, the technology provides helpful context information or adds features to an existing application. Personally, I remember the first time I used an AR application in 2009 when I euphorically installed the App AR-Maps on my iPhone 3G. But why is there currently such a hype surrounding AR applications? Source: [link].

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

Over the next ten years Apple sold over 320 million iPods and as they introduced more products such as the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2009 which, at the time of publishing this article, have both respectively sold 421 million and 170 million units their annual revenues grew from $5 Billion to an eye watering $171 Billion. mgriffin_uk .

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Zappos’ CEO on Using Corporate Relocation to Preserve Customer-Led Culture

Harvard Business Review

Our belief is that as unsexy and low-tech as it may sound, the telephone is one of the best branding devices out there. We also lost some good people: Our star software developer loved San Francisco and decided not to leave. In 2009 we agreed to sell ownership of Zappos to Amazon. Culture That Drives Performance.

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How Twitter, Google, and Apple Walk a Fine Line in Platform Defense

Harvard Business Review

This is not so for many of our current technological platforms. Consider the failure of Google Wave, Google's collaboration tool, launched in 2009 and killed in the summer of 2010. Last year, Apple integrated its own Game Center right into the operating system and into the Software Developer Kit.