Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 26, 2012

It’s not that design pattern libraries are bad, but that in a world of limited resources, it is it is not clear that the investment is worth it. Should your team invest time in making a pattern library as a training tool, or just change the way they work? Should they spend time on documentation or collaborate on projects?

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

As software development initiatives increase in scope and complexity, teams are facing persistent bottlenecks that can seriously hinder productivity and slow down delivery cycles. The consequences of poor productivity reverberate across the entire software development lifecycle.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. This is an extreme example of where SCRUM went bad.

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Christensen Institute

JUNE 7, 2023

sits at the helm of the world’s most prominent development institution. Some processes are explicitly defined, documented, and followed while others are habitual or routine ways of working together that have evolved over time. Banga has his work cut out for him. Priorities affect what an organization can and cannot accomplish.

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Planview

AUGUST 22, 2023

Project management is akin to navigating a ship in choppy waters. Applying machine learning to project management challenges can pave the way for smarter, more efficient, lower-risk projects and higher-quality products. Let’s explore how AI is shaping the future of project management.

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Leapfrogging

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In January 1996, two Stanford PhD students started working on a research project that would change the world. They nicknamed their project BackRub, because it checked backlinks of websites to determine their importance. What are your biggest weaknesses within the business, and what are your biggest challenges to overcoming them?

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Developers own the code, business owns the proposition, yet design is considered a “service.” One opportunity for designers is to “own” the future, to use their unique skills to document and maintain the future state of the product. The team also keeps the design vision up to date, updating it as they learn from customers.

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

We needed to be out talking to the people we serve, and developing programs that were unique to our city’s needs,” McAdoo says. Employees have a new passion for their work, since they quickly see that their projects make citizens’ lives better. Hayward City Manager Kelly McAdoo didn’t want to accept the status quo. “We

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Having worked as a consultant, at an agency and in-house, I’ve observed that the organizational location and economics of the user experience team can make or break them. When should you bring in an outside team, and when should you hire an individual employee? How to figure out the right team for a new project?

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 30, 2010

Large scale websites require groups of specialists to design and develop a product that will be a commercial success. To develop a completely new site requires several teams to collaborate and this can be difficult. Particularly as different teams may be working with different methods. People make or break any project.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

To cater to both sides of design, I started the journey of mapping and documenting useful psychological insights used by designers. Having documented useful psychological design principles, I was still struggling to put them to practice with my development teams. Announcing the project.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

To delve further into the developmental aspects of organizational culture and how it can be shaped, explore our article on develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change. Conversely, a weak or negative culture can hinder business performance, stifle growth, and lead to organizational dysfunction.

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Boxes and Arrows

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

As our profession has increasingly gained importance, it also become increasingly specialized: information design, user experience design, interaction design, user research, persona development, ethnographic user research, usability testing—the list goes on and on.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 6, 2024

Strategy should be continually developed and re-evaluated, rather than developed once and put on a shelf. It is defined by the spoken or written, and just as importantly the unspoken tenets and rules, what team members tolerate and what they don't tolerate. Companies cannot build static strategies that stretch over 3 or 5 years.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 4, 2021

Not knowing all areas of project management is a big mistake for managers. Project management must be part of the day-to-day activities in every company. Check out the concepts that involve management and get to know the 10 areas of project management in this blog post! What is project management? Scope management.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

An appropriate and attainable SOW determines whether my team of UX designers and researchers get the time and activities we require to fully understand a client’s needs and fashion a suitable solution. One reason projects are poorly scoped is our clients’ discomfort with ambiguity. Involve clients throughout the project.

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MSSBTI

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

However, that is exactly what happens to an overwhelming number of leaders on a regular basis with their technology projects. A McKinsey-Oxford study found that large IT projects go over-budget 45% of the time, over-schedule 7% of the time, and under-deliver 56% of the time¹. How to Avoid Project Estimation Errors.

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The first article discussed the pros and cons of different UX team structures. For companies that depend on user experience for business success, a strong internal team is essential. They can be fantastic partners who drive real change, but their needs are very different from a product team. But how do you get there from here?

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Boxes and Arrows

MAY 5, 2015

Have you ever asked for an update on a project you’d invested a great deal of time and energy in, only to hear “they have completely redesigned it since then”? In the following article, I will give three areas in which we can focus our efforts: mentoring, client education, and our own team members. Client mentoring as an investment.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 16, 2016

But none of this is even remotely new, or poorly documented, or beyond the reach of many of the people you already employ. Certainly companies are good at product portfolio and roadmaps, making decisions on how much to invest in older technologies, how much to invest in newer products and the roadmaps and versions that should be developed.

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Innov8rs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Innov8rs | Corporate venture studios offer innovation teams the freedom to operate with the spirit, passion, and resilience of entrepreneurs, all while leveraging organizational resources. However, building successful innovation teams in this context requires careful consideration. What are the key ingredients?

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Bad experience. ” The phrase “alignment diagrams&# describes a class of documents that reveal the touchpoints between a customer and a business. Indi Young developed this technique and detailed it in her book Mental Models (Rosenfeld Media, 2008) [2]. Sketch draft diagrams for your current project.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 29, 2015

In the previous article we talked about why site optimization is important and presented a few important goals and philosophies to impart on your team. We created the following minimum completion criteria for my past team at DIRECTV Latin America. I’d like to switch gears now and talk about more tactical stuff, namely, process.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 26, 2010

Download Experience strategy: Dealing with a UX mid-life crisis – Richard Dalton, Rob Weening We make changes to our user experiences based on heuristics, usability testing, and data, but do we really know if we’re improving the overall experience over time and across projects? Design tenets support and extend a core vision.

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ITONICS

JANUARY 21, 2025

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) serves as the conductors baton, unifying diverse projects into a harmony that resonates. For project managers, project management brings clarityturning scattered tasks into a cohesive roadmap. Read on to explore the ten best practices for effective project portfolio management in 2025.

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Acuvate

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

And if these decisions are driven by poor data practices, then it causes more harm than good. By meeting the quality standards of good data, organizations develop better control over the outcomes of these decisions. According to IDC’s projections , 79.4 Then, focus on those data sources to refine good from irrelevant/poor data.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 31, 2008

first creating wireframes, which are handed off to creative, who hand off comps to tech, and so forth), and you want to explore more contemporary methodologies, such as agile and iterative development. The way that look and feel is developed and applied will vary widely from team to team.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Without a clear system to manage, filter, and prioritize these ideas, teams can waste valuable time and resources trying to identify where to focus their efforts. Poor Prioritization: Many organizations lack a structured approach to evaluating which ideas align with their strategic objectives.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 26, 2019

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. There are good and bad things about this approach.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2013

Project Management for Stakeholder Interviews. Note that it’s as important for in-house teams to ask most of these questions as it is for consultants; you may know one answer, but do you know this particular stakeholder’s answer? There may be variation due to a poor understanding of who the users are.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 15, 2009

He shares the factors that influence how effective various prototyping methodologies will be and how to choose wisely; what level of effort you will need to invest in prototyping in order to get useful feedback; and how to permanently integrate prototyping into your software development process in a way that is effective for your organization.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Recently, Walmart deployed about 500 bots to automate a variety of things, from answering employee questions to retrieving helpful information from audit documents. Many RPA problems stem from poor management of expectations. The best option is to start with a project and learn from the process. Involve IT early and often.

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CMOE

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Even staff members notice a serious gap: 91% express accountability as their employer’s top leadership-development need. Accountability in leadership is vital for the following reasons: Accountability encourages team members to stay rooted in honesty and integrity. Making mistakes is inevitable in the workplace.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 6, 2009

This article is about a method drawn from storytelling that can help us build a better story about our product, unify teams, inspire design concepts and get us closer to evoking the pleasure, emotion and meaning of the experience we intend to deliver to users through the products and services we design. So why not designers?

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Acuvate

JULY 26, 2019

The tenets of data governance are to establish methods, layout clear responsibilities and develop robust processes to standardize, protect and store data. Reduce costs that might incur due to bad data. Analysis of poor quality data results in ineffective decisions. Reusing Data – Several documents in a company undergo revisions.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 29, 2020

What makes us believe that developing digital products is not only a solution to overcome the crisis, but also to generate business value after it too. Who would have thought it would be possible to get a credit card without any contact with human service, not even sending the documentation? Bonus 2: Agile Software Development.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 6, 2018

I am sure every team does that. How much of the failure was due to poor planning or execution of the plan? The one thing that would help us really well, going forward is to document the assumptions that we are making while creating the plan. So it is with every team. Why did we decide to do these activities?

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