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Integrating ‘Agile’ Approaches into ‘Waterfall’ Cultures

InnovationTraining.org

These processes can each guide us, depending upon our goals, knowledge, and values surrounding stakeholder engagement. is the guiding question, and we develop solutions based upon our understanding of the answer. becomes the salient question, and discovering the likely answers determines the responses that will be developed.

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The Art of Agile

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Agile development has been around since the 90s, and became popular shortly after the turn of the millennium, when the Manifesto for Agile Software Development was formulated and signed by Kent Beck and 16 fellow software developers. If it is not applied properly, agile development can easily turn into chaos!

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User experience: ROI and methods to measure your investment in UX

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.” | In the study, companies like Apple and Coca-Cola outperformed the rating agency Standard & Poor’s by 228%, which indicates the industry’s average performance. Not to mention the improvement in productivity and the reduction of rework costs, especially in the development process. This is crucial.

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Intentionality and the Differentiating Competitive Advantage 

Planview

I’m also referencing upstream activities, software development technical impediments, and post-build activities. Fresh off the pain of my poor Boilermakers loss in the NCAA tournament, I reflect on what a startling competitive disadvantage you’re at if your competitor can score buckets at three times your team’s speed.

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Hackathons simplified

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A hackathon , also known as a codefest, is typically a day-long coding competition where a bunch of software developers, computer programmers, designers, and others join hands to improve upon or build a new software program. The goal of the hackathon was to educate developers about Alexa. Hackathons maybe theme-based.

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Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment

Boxes and Arrows

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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The role of design thinking in fixed price contracts

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We often rely on these people to translate how the business works into a format that can be understood by a development team. A skilled facilitator will keep a room occupied and engaged all afternoon and have a clear set of understood, debated and accepted process by the end of it. And guess what? This is often done poorly.