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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower Innovation

The Tactical Technical Advisor stays on top of the development team to ensure that they’re team is building the right thing in a high-quality, efficient manner. This is especially important with outsourced development teams. Are developers following best practices in their code and life cycle?

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Agile Frameworks: learn how they work in practice

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Agile Frameworks help the business team experience an Agile mindset in practice. With Agile Frameworks, business processes become more dynamic, staggering business values and productivity. 5 Most used Agile Frameworks. Therefore, the risks are better worked and reduced, as progress and delays are monitored.

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5 Tips for Adding Value to Agile Design

InnovationTraining.org

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. They don’t tell the team how to design, but they serve as virtual guardrails to prevent the project from careening off the road.

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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. 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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Calculating the Six Hidden Costs of Waste in Software Development 

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Teams should be encouraged to reassess their tasks in relation to company priorities and shift focus when necessary. Adopting a flexible approach to project and product management allows for quick pivoting away from lower priority tasks towards high-value work. This helps avoid the accumulation of unmanageable work due to multitasking.

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Maximizing Efficiency & Productivity: 3 Ways GenAI Optimizes Value Stream Management for Tech Leaders 

Planview

But while the increasing number of companies adopting VSM has changed how teams build from project to product, a new innovative approach hits the spotlight: generative AI (genAI). For example, imagine you’re a manager of an engineering team migrating to a VSM platform like Planview Viz.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Design Thinking

InnovationTraining.org

We then reviewed them to see that the answer summaries made sense. What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies? 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.