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Revolutionize Your Business: The Power of Agile Product Development

Leapfrogging

Agile product development, on the other hand, is iterative and incremental. It’s built on the foundation of iterative progress, where you can assess and adjust the direction of a project throughout its development. Agile Team Collaboration Effective collaboration is the backbone of agile product development.

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Strategic Pipeline Management

eZassi

The team must also understand the level of effort required to fulfill the need in order to assess whether or not there will be a return on the project investment, and making such assessments in isolation can cause major miscalculations. Learn more about this collaborative Kaizen method.

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Design Thinking Applied to Re-Organizations

Tullio Siragusa

To bring innovations to products and services, Design Thinking encourages the process of questioning, assuming, the collaboration of employees, brainstorming, building prototypes, testing the newly created ideas, and getting continuous feedback. The traditional processes involved in State A still exist, but you now have active collaboration.

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An Answer to the Pains of Integrating Agile and UX

Boxes and Arrows

It tied in quite nicely with the book I’m reviewing here. As sometime director of Design at Infragistics, I personally have had first hand experience trying to integrate UX into an existing, established Agile engineering process with large-ish teams. Book Reviews lean' Enter the book. Lean UX has its own challenges.

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Bringing Holistic Awareness to Your Design

Boxes and Arrows

These are blunt assessments of unfortunate team member attitudes, but we were surprised how often we found them to be present. Also fairly common were very small teams where the same person performed multiple roles. All team members should be prepared to make real-time decisions in the collaborative design session.

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How VSM Software Addresses Everyday Portfolio and Engineering Challenges 

Planview

This visibility is necessary to manage the productivity of development teams and ensure that software is delivered on time, on schedule and on budget. By providing unprecedented visibility into the entire value stream, VSM software reveals bottlenecks, delays, and inefficiencies, enabling teams to proactively optimize workflows.

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

I reached out to seventy colleagues and received detailed responses from twenty UX professionals (including interaction designers, user researchers, and visual designers) who were actively supporting Scrum development teams. “One of my teams has a lot of ideas and contributes a lot to the UX of the product.

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