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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. Design Innovative software” is not a concrete goal; it’s a vague directive. Agile Design Tip 2—Leading with UX Design. Don’t isolate design.

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How to Drive Results for Top 3 Business Outcomes Using Flow Metrics in SAFe®

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Fortune 500 companies have long recognized the importance of adopting the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) to stay competitive in today’s fast-paced business landscape. In the context of SAFe, flow refers to the smooth and uninterrupted progress of work through the entire value stream, from ideation to delivery.

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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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Choosing the Right Path: Building vs Buying Value Stream Integration Software

Planview

In today’s fast-paced software development landscape, the race to streamline workflows, reduce waste, optimize processes, and boost collaboration is more urgent than ever. Value stream integration involves the seamless flow of information and work across the entire software development lifecycle.

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Maximizing Efficiency & Productivity: 3 Ways GenAI Optimizes Value Stream Management for Tech Leaders 

Planview

With all the open-source code and available context across the internet, AI models can generate software code and help software developers debug their work. With a modern software development team comes modern practices on documentation, either for internal and/or external purposes.

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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. He used the term “developer” as if it were an epithet, and unsurprisingly, a lot of the audience cheered him on.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Design Thinking

InnovationTraining.org

What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies? How can design thinking help with product development? Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that involves empathy for the user, creative ideation, and experimentation to create innovative solutions. What is a design sprint? What is design thinking?