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Integrating UX into the Product Backlog

Boxes and Arrows

Early agile pioneers were working on in-house IT projects (custom software) or enterprise software [ 1 , 2 ]. The economics are different in selling consumer products than when developing software for enterprises—UX matters more for consumer products. Larry makes money even if people can’t use his software.

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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. Can you patent software?: However, software is not always something that can be patented.

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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.”. Think again.

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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.”. Think again.

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Open Sourcing May Be Worth the Risk

Harvard Business Review

We open sourced Mobify.js , our core framework that enables web developers and designers to create a mobile-friendly version of their website. Open sourcing" means to make software's source code publicly available, so that anybody can recreate the software or modify it to make their own version.

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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. The results?

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Open Sourcing May Be Worth the Risk

Harvard Business Review

We open sourced Mobify.js , our core framework that enables web developers and designers to create a mobile-friendly version of their website. Open sourcing" means to make software's source code publicly available, so that anybody can recreate the software or modify it to make their own version.