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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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Unleash Your Visual Superpower!

Boxes and Arrows

In-house designers often have to advocate for design priorities versus new features or technical change. Meaning anyone who provides the vision for a product, whether it be in code, wireframes, comps, prototypes, or cocktail napkins. Agile teams can lose the long term direction by focusing on small sprints.

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Answering 3 Key Automotive Industry 4.0 Questions

Planview

Vehicle factory shutdowns due to a microchip shortage, an automotive CEO losing his job for software concerns, and millions of connected cars on the road. And with that mobile and connected focus comes a need to apply agile software development principles to a company’s product development strategy.

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Make the Commercial First

Boxes and Arrows

Rather than simply add a UI to an existing product idea, the tools and techniques designers use can be adapted to think through the product itself. Taking on the role of customer researcher also empowers a designer to shape the product strategy when it is the most undefined. Also, it’s fun as heck! Tone and content.

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