Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 6, 2018

What is a UX designer? Some excerpts: Work with the development team to follow a user-centered design approach as you work collaboratively to brainstorm and design innovative solutions to complex problems. But it seemed that they really wanted a visual designer who could prototype. Sounds great!

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 8, 2019

Agile Design Tip 1—Clear Goals Supported by Design Research. In Some Thoughts on Design Research, Agile, and Traps Charles Lambdin stresses the importance of clearly defined goals. Design Innovative software” is not a concrete goal; it’s a vague directive. Agile Design Tip 2—Leading with UX Design.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 26, 2019

In a project where the waterfall Model is used, each such point represents a different stage of software development, and each stage usually ends before the next stage can begin. Requirements are usually reviewed and approved by the customer before the project can be started. There are good and bad things about this approach.

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Acuvate

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

It is a set of practices that automates the process between software development and IT teams. The process involves building, testing and releasing the software faster and more reliably. Continuous Integration is a development practice where developers integrate the code frequently to a central repository.

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CorporateIntel

APRIL 1, 2012

Information compounds on our desktops, the team with analysis paralysis most often loses to the nimble risk takers—but all this means is that in product development , the role of Quality Assurance (QA) has never been more critical. ” Believe me, I understand trade-offs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

No enterprise design initiative wastes more time, more effort, more money — while squandering goodwill — than the quest for requirements. This design pathology repeats itself virtually every day around the world by otherwise diligent and sincere innovators. Requirements are the devil. It's got to stop.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

When most organizations design new work processes, they assume that team members will make the best possible use of them to improve team performance. That is, they assume that team members will act rationally. But the results were much different on the software side. In most cases, this assumption is wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Poorly designed and/or cavalierly monitored incentives frequently lead to horrendous outcomes. However, they typically need not worry about forfeiture if, upon review, those numbers require restatement, revision or repair. Yes, the sales team was (ultimately) fired. People respond to incentives. Yes, they kept their bonus money.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Software development is a frenzied decathlon of activity, constantly pressed on all sides by resource constraints, budgets and deadlines. Few members of the team are harder hit by this reality than the user experience and design staff. Waterfall development lays the wrong foundation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

Teams that adopt this model feature a rigid hierarchy, whereby final decisions are centralized through this single, formally designated individual. Another approach is to let teams self-manage. This approach is evident in, for example, agile software development methods. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

IBM: Applying a Hybrid Design-Thinking Approach. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

We see this sensibility articulated by Google’s software development teams and pair programming efforts. Does enterprise culture and process recognize and reward teams and teamwork with the same energy, enthusiasm, and investment as for individuals? Assess/Analyze.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Only number three can drive the growth of your team and company over the long term. Debriefing is a structured learning process designed to continuously evolve plans while they’re being executed. The results, both good and bad, should be considered team results, recognizing that everyone had a hand in creating them.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

It’s cheaper because of automation and because small development teams need less coordination and oversight. Continuous integration and automated testing is important for all modern, large scale software development. In some cases, they can go from an idea to a software release in 48 hours. Not necessarily.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. The bulk of this agile canon will teach your individual teams to deliver higher-quality code, faster.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2016

When it comes to designing and leading meetings that produce results , when you meet matters just as much as how you meet. ” Makers, also known as individual contributors, are the software developers, engineers, architects, writers, and researchers who produce knowledge.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

Peter Cappelli reviews the evidence to conclude that there are not major shortages of workers with basic reading and math skills or of workers with engineering and technical training; if anything, too many workers may be overeducated. Consider, for example, graphic designers. Then came the Internet and demand grew for web designers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Quick, name a product that was developed without using software. Software has become a crucial part of almost all goods and services. For an example, I spoke with Andy Singleton , CEO of Assembla , a firm that helps software development teams build software faster.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

held week-long workshops designed to expose workers at the China and India sites to the U.S.-developed developed practices of rapid development cycles , user-centered design , and collaboration in an open office layout. Something similar happened with user-centered design. Leaders from the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. How do you prevent a drop-off?

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