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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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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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An Answer to the Pains of Integrating Agile and UX

Boxes and Arrows

Although I was attending as a sponsor/exhibitor for Indigo Studio, I did manage to break away to go to the “There’s more than one way to skin a cat: Integrating UX into an Agile environment” session. It tied in quite nicely with the book I’m reviewing here. Enter the book.

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

With quality assurance/control already embedded in our development process, what if we expand that role to champion usability and customer delight? Join Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant as he discusses how we can educate and equip our QA/QC process to forge champions of customer experience.

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Calculating the Six Hidden Costs of Waste in Software Development 

Planview

How to reduce this type of waste To reduce misaligned work, organizations must clearly define, communicate, and ensure understanding of their strategic goals at all levels. How to reduce this type of waste To reduce excessive work in progress (WIP), setting WIP limits may not be enough.

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How to Build Your Culture of Human-Centered Innovation

Inceodia

If you’re not familiar with the Kodak failure, Steven Sasson , an engineer at Kodak developed the first digital camera in 1975. While they could see how to evolve their technology, they could not see how to evolve their business model. How to Make Human Centered Innovation Work for You. Innovation is a team sport.

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