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Integrating UX into the Product Backlog

Boxes and Arrows

. “Agile Development: Lessons learned from the first scrum” Cutter Agile Project Management Advisory Service, Executive Update, Vol. SVPG Press, 2010. [4] User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development. Agile Software Development. 20, 2004: [link]. [3] 3] Cagan, Martin. 4] Cohn, Mike.

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

Idea to Value

If you want to see just crazy the situation is, watch this video by software developer Austin Meyer, in which he describes his experience trying to fight these patent infringement claims with the companies that sued him. I highly recommend you watch it.

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Management 3.0: Why you should get to know this Model?

mjvinnovation

Created by IT manager Jurgen Appelo in 2010, Management 3.0 While these concepts are not one in the same, they do draw on each other for inspiration – the fact that Jurgen Appelo has years of software development experience is no coincidence. It’s a management format that draws from the same source as Lean and Agile.

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How to Run the Ultimate Corporate Hackathon

Qmarkets

“Programmers and software professionals squeezing time in against packed evenings and weekends to accelerate productivity.” He continues to describe the hackathon format as one of “decentralized, disintermediated, distributed computer programming [that] proves an industry standard for software development.”.

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How to Run the Ultimate Corporate Hackathon

Qmarkets

“Programmers and software professionals squeezing time in against packed evenings and weekends to accelerate productivity.” He continues to describe the hackathon format as one of “decentralized, disintermediated, distributed computer programming [that] proves an industry standard for software development.”.

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Open Sourcing May Be Worth the Risk

Harvard Business Review

Andre Charland's company, Nitobi Software, was recently purchased by Adobe after open sourcing its flagship product, PhoneGap, in 2010. We have about 25 software developers and quality assurance professionals at Mobify, but we're no match for the all the software developers in the world who might make use of our platform.

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How to Engage the Front Line in Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

In a previous post , I cited Google's "20% time" policy, where software developers spend 20% of their jobs on projects they dream up. Atlassian, an Australian software company, has a similar policy. It also encourages their developers to identify software fixes and new products.