Boxes and Arrows

JUNE 29, 2009

Introduction User interface (UI) patterns have the potential to make software development more efficient. This characteristic and the efficiency gains make patterns an excellent opportunity for software companies to come together and promote UI patterns to the wider development community.

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The Human Factor

JULY 27, 2022

This raises the difficulty of finding the top software engineers for a business given that many are bootstrapped and some are sponsored. All companies are now fundamentally tech companies, and employing software engineers is now a crucial task that greatly affects a startup’s long-term performance. Establishing requirements.

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TechEmpower Innovation

JULY 24, 2023

Accounting Beyond reviewing transactions, what accounting support do you need? Team and Process Are you using, or planning to use any software development methodologies? How big is the anticipated development team? Reporting What needs to be reported? Reporting can be endless! Do you need to track inventory?

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

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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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

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.

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Planview

MARCH 27, 2025

Step 1: Start With a Small-Scale Pilot The journey began in 2022 when Vanguard initiated a pilot within their Chief Technology Office and IT department, focusing on improving the software developer experience. The teams struggled with excessive context switching and too much WIP, prompting them to optimize flow as a solution.

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Planview

MARCH 15, 2024

It’s no surprise the abundance of moving parts contributes to an ever-ambiguous world for software delivery. With a multitude of products and services that companies serve to customers, the recognition of Value Stream Management (VSM) in modern software delivery has never been stronger.

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Bubblegroup

JULY 1, 2018

Available roles: The systems administrator will be responsible for managing the existing application and infrastructure, planning and implementing improvements, as well as developing new solutions to support our future software development. Applicants who pass our initial assessment will be invited to interview.

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mjvinnovation

JULY 10, 2020

Smaller batches of work are easier to understand, commit, test, and review, as well as know when they are completed. When automation is combined with a solid agile mindset, it is possible to obtain resource development very close to the flow of each step, providing value to customers quickly and continuously.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 6, 2018

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. Work closely with team members to conduct user research, identify pain points, develop user profiles, and create task lists.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 26, 2019

This is a choice that defines how the production of a software application will be managed, the resources that will be needed, among other things. 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.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 8, 2019

Design Innovative software” is not a concrete goal; it’s a vague directive. Indeed, a thorough research effort can show the team specifically what to design and perhaps even how to approach the new design. The “UX advance team” can quickly gather user feedback to evaluate proposed product features.

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CorporateIntel

APRIL 1, 2012

A software bug caused it to be withdrawn. 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. You don’t hear that one too often.

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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. This means that any commit that happens to the solution by dev team will trigger the build immediately.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 5, 2016

Apple research concluded that the average time spent interacting with a smartwatch is two to five seconds—checking email, reviewing a schedule, reading an alert, etc. As with all software development initiatives, it’s a best practice to build and test prototypes as part of the design process.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We then reviewed them to see that the answer summaries made sense. This involves reviewing the feedback from the user testing, and making adjustments to the solution based on the insights gathered. This involves presenting the solution to stakeholders, and developing a plan for implementing and refining the solution moving forward.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

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. The hardware team had employed similar processes in the past and found them helpful. The hardware team had employed similar processes in the past and found them helpful.

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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. The rapid pace of change in software (e.g., 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

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

That is, individuals and teams may receive impressively large and ostensibly "performance-based" bonuses if they hit their numbers. However, they typically need not worry about forfeiture if, upon review, those numbers require restatement, revision or repair. Developing better software would have paid less.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

As the lead developer on one big software project put it: "Everybody knows the schedule is a joke, and we pay no attention to it. Big, successful companies that manage huge projects like highways and dams and office parks have to deal with many more variables than a software development team. It's funny, though.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

They've proven remarkably successful for software developers and customer-centric industrial designers alike. They transformed design team morale and purpose in remarkably short time spans. Use cases are integral elements of the increasingly popular Agile and XP software development methodologies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

Teams can be highly effective even when members have never met in person. In fact, virtual teams can actually outperform traditional co-located groups. Often times, for instance, a team leader will be unaware of a problem until it's festered and become a major crisis. Communicate less — but in the right ways.

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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

JUNE 17, 2015

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. In the past, IBM mostly provided enterprise software to customers who installed it on their own computers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > The downside of this approach is that when projects increase in complexity and team size, the central individual can become a communication and coordination bottleneck for the team. Another approach is to let teams self-manage. But is this really the best way to work?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

For example, in a previous post I described how Amazon’s ability to continuously release software changes (8000 per day, one every 11 seconds) will crush competitors who are making a batch change every six weeks. It’s cheaper because of automation and because small development teams need less coordination and oversight.

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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

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

MARCH 11, 2013

As the lead developer on one big software project put it: "Everybody knows the schedule is a joke, and we pay no attention to it. Big, successful companies that manage huge projects like highways and dams and office parks have to deal with many more variables than a software development team. It's funny, though.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many software development teams hold mini-debriefs every morning to review yesterday’s progress and today’s goals—and longer debriefs every month or two to understand larger project wins and challenges. Review four key questions. Review your results, and ensure the group is aligned.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

The innovation roadmap was hauled out and reviewed less in the spotlight of global opportunities than the cold reflection of domestic politics. Strategic success required pleasing Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin. The room went quiet. That single comment rebooted the entire discussion. No one disagreed. The unhappy innovation inference?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2016

” Makers, also known as individual contributors, are the software developers, engineers, architects, writers, and researchers who produce knowledge. This is particularly true in organizations where employees are both, what Paul Graham calls, “makers” and “managers.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

Agile practices have a vital part to play in the rapid delivery and continuous maintenance of software-driven products and services. When software is ubiquitous, agile needs to be likewise. Agile Adoption Goes beyond IT and Development to Other Organizations in the Business.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

The Times reports that he ran his organization as "a disciplined army that met deadlines, and he was respected by people on his team." It would be hard to imagine Sinofsky rising as far as he did without the ability to manage and motivate software development teams. The fourth dimension is leading up to one's boss.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

In China, however, talking with customers was seen as in imposition on both the developers and the customers, who were considered uninterested and unreliable in articulating product requirements. With these groups, we noticed that management practices that worked well in Germany and the U.S. didn’t fare as well in India.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

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.

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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. We see it in the high pay that software developers in Silicon Valley receive for their specialized skills.

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