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I recently attended UXPA 2013 in D.C. Although I was attending as a sponsor/exhibitor for Indigo Studio, I did manage to break away to go to the “There’s more than one way to skin a cat: Integrating UX into an Agile environment” session. The answer situates itself within the Lean approach to product development.
The course was based on the following model: The following list is a selection of the business cases they found, mostly based on the Lean Startup, Lean Enterprise, Corporate Entrepreneurship and agile/Scrum – all available freely and online for use at your disposal, so I decided to share them with you. A Brief History of Lean.
The figures take into account a period of 10 years (2003-2013). Not to mention the improvement in productivity and the reduction of rework costs, especially in the development process. Statistics indicate that investing in UX during the conceptual phase of a project can reduce the solution development cycle time by 33% to 50%.
2013 R&D spend (in US$B). The automotive culture needs to change to one that supports agility, risk-taking, entrepreneurial thinking at every organizational level, and that the idea that innovation comes from both inside and outside the corporation. Rank by Innovation. Rank by R&D Spend. R&D as % of Annual Revenue.
2013 R&D spend (in US$B). The automotive culture needs to change to one that supports agility, risk-taking, entrepreneurial thinking at every organizational level, and that the idea that innovation comes from both inside and outside the corporation. Rank by Innovation. Rank by R&D Spend. R&D as % of Annual Revenue.
The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” softwaredevelopment, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees.
Or take Salesforce.com and its willingness to have self-organizing development teams continuously tweaking code, even though, with a global system serving more than two million subscribers, the risks of introducing errors into its 30 million lines of code would seem to present compelling reasons not to. Keep your gaze on the customers.
Based solely on Government Accounting Office reports and media coverage , it’s unclear which — if any — best practices in systems and softwaredevelopment were being followed. That’s neither technical failure nor software glitch; that’s a failure of leadership and oversight. Where was it?
” To hit the aggressive growth targets (750 by the end of 2013 and 1000 by November 2014) Waldo had to rewrite some GE rules. “We hired a talent acquisition leader from the software industry, someone who really understood technology. Despite the vision and potential, there have been other bumps along the way.
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