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Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment

Boxes and Arrows

As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. I had worked with SCRUM before, done training with Ken Schwaber (author 1 and co-founder of the Agile Alliance) and knew a few things from experience about how to achieve some success integrating a design team within SCRUM.

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Using Wikis to Document UI Specifications

Boxes and Arrows

This documentation is commonly known as a UI specification or UI spec. However, designers should be aware of a wiki’s benefits and drawbacks for documentation, since UI specs uniquely reflect a project and its context. As designers, we often find ourselves working with teams that are using agile processes.

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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. I first encountered Agile Development in 2005, when a team I supported was chosen to help pilot Scrum development methodology at Yahoo!

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Integrating UX into the Product Backlog

Boxes and Arrows

Teams moving to agile often struggle to integrate agile with best practices in user-centered design (UCD) and user experience (UX) in general. Fortunately, using a UX Integration Matrix helps integrate UX and agile by including UX information and requirements right in the product backlog. The feedback loop is broken.

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We Require A Shift of Innovation Management Solution Providers

Paul Hobcraft

In my opinion, they need actually a more robust end-to-end innovation software solution as something of a real need. They might feel they have this, I don’t. They want to navigate the new world order of digital disruption. Take Aras and its solutions.[1].

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Agile vs Waterfall: what are the differences?

mjvinnovation

Traditionally, the Waterfall model is a linear approach that has a sequence of events somewhat like this: To Gather and document requirements; To draw; Code and unit test; To Perform the system test; To Perform the user acceptance test; To Correct any problem; To Deliver the finished product. The Agile model and its peculiarities.

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The principles that you need to know about Agile Development

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The Agile manifesto. In 2001, the “ Manifesto for Agile Software Development”, was published, which gave popularity to the term ‘Agile’ and marked the beginning of the application of light software development methods. Understanding Agile methods. The benefits of the Agile Methodology.

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