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Innovation is a team sport

Cris Beswick

Naresh Jain (2009) claims: “Team members need to learn how to help one another, help other team members realise their true potential, and create an environment that allows everyone to go beyond their limitations”. [4] Instead, they create a culture for innovation. Building Smart Teams: A Roadmap to High Performance.

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization. In particular, one respondent perceived his organization as having a “developer-centric culture” that often dismissed UX input, resulting in usability and utility deficits in the product.

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