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Gap Analysis Framework Strategy Template

Leapfrogging

By identifying gaps in processes, capabilities, or outcomes , businesses can develop targeted strategies to improve efficiency, enhance competitiveness, and achieve strategic goals. This analysis is widely used across industries, from business operations and project management to human resources and product development.

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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. The answer situates itself within the Lean approach to product development.

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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. In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Design Thinking

InnovationTraining.org

We then reviewed them to see that the answer summaries made sense. How can design thinking help with product development? This involves reviewing the feedback from the user testing, and making adjustments to the solution based on the insights gathered. How can design thinking help with product development?

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The Quality Chronicles

CorporateIntel

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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Speed Up Your Product Development Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

It’s cheaper because of automation and because small development teams need less coordination and oversight. Here is a quick look at how Google and HubSpot have managed to achieve remarkable speed in product releases while simultaneously reducing risk. In some cases, they can go from an idea to a software release in 48 hours.

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People Are Irrational, But Teams Don't Have to Be

Harvard Business Review

Like many companies, Exotech struggled with serious time delays in its product-development projects. As part of this effort, the company decided to use tools to drive high levels of performance on a new project that required both hardware and software components. So the company assumed the software team would, too.