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Case study of agile and UCD working together

Boxes and Arrows

This case study shows how the ComputerWeekly user experience team integrated with an agile development group. People make or break any project. The brief In 2008, we were tasked with resurrecting a tired, old, and ineffective site. At this point the development team maintained the site with an agile process.

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Take Smarter Risks through Discovery Driven Planning

KindlingApp

This is why the principles found in lean methodology have been so widely accepted and applied; the ability to be agile and adjust are the characteristics of top-tier organizations. In other words, any given project will be managed according to the same set rules and states as any other, like budget, internal approval, and market research.

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Fintechs: what are they and how to face them?

mjvinnovation

After the global financial crisis of 2008, the innovations around the financial industry have made the concept evolved to create alternatives and reform trade, payments, investments, asset management, insurance, clearing and securities settlement and even money itself with cryptocurrency like Bitcoin.

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Reinventing the Entrepreneurship Game

ImagineNation

From the second ten years 1998-2008. Being largely project based, developing diverse, cohesive & collaborative, & hard-core agile teaming skills were the critical success factors for effective project execution & delivery. So here is the next instalment of my ongoing personal entrepreneurship story.

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Why you need extreme constraints to fuel innovation

hackerearth

When Virgin America had limited marketing budgets, it got creative and partnered with Victoria's Secret and HBO (2007-2008) to redefine customer experience for their flyers. In an Agile system, you could adjust cost, scope, and schedule to impact development positively. Think of beautiful Haiku. Conclusion.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

They had lots of these projects. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious management attention and/or resources. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Heck, Siri was actually first.

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The enemy is already within. The flood gates are open. Can GE recover?

Paul Hobcraft

Since the crisis of 2008, GE has been struggling to fully regain its position but all its actions were regarded very highly as “making good progress” as it maintained a relentless momentum of shedding and acquiring operations, as well as pursuing a buying back of its shares, and paying out the beloved GE dividend.