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A Day in the Life of a Planview Software Development Engineer Test Manager

Planview

For this month’s blog spotlight , we are going to travel to Bangalore and follow Geetika to spend a day in the life of a Software Development Engineer Test manager. Here is what Geetika had to say: Explain your role as a Software Development Engineer Test Manager and a few of your responsibilities.

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When Building a Culture For Innovation, Form Follows Function

Cris Beswick

Decades later, the form-follows-function paradigm became deeply embedded across industrial design, software development, and systems engineering disciplines. For example, a traditional industrial manufacturer leveraging emerging digital technologies might establish a new software engineering arm.

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The Rise of Product Management

Moves the Needle

” The program manager was part of the Engineering department. It was their job to ensure all aspects of the product development process were aligned and working together. The primary function was to serve as the bridge between Engineering and Marketing. The PMs will be a conduit for expanding agile beyond Engineering.

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50+ Business Cases on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Open Innovation EU

During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions around organization design. Source: www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/when-toyota-met-e-commerce-lean-at-amazon.

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An Answer to the Pains of Integrating Agile and UX

Boxes and Arrows

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. It turns out that Jeff Gothelf, author of Lean UX (the book I’m reviewing here) has also faced the same challenges. Enter the book.

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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work – the Minimal Viable Product

Steve Blank

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Here’s how. Build-Measure-Learn.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Design Thinking

InnovationTraining.org

What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? How can design thinking help with product development? There are several ways to learn design thinking, including: Taking a course: Many universities and colleges offer courses on design thinking, either as part of a design or engineering program or as a standalone course.