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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower Innovation

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. The PMs are seeing late deliveries and bugs that suggest the devs just aren’t capable enough. This can be true even if those failures had nothing to do with the current team.

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Calculating the Six Hidden Costs of Waste in Software Development 

Planview

Nothing frustrates software developers more than working hard on something that never ends up providing value. Whether because of changing priorities, miscommunication among teams, or other blockers, the hidden cost of waste can significantly impact productivity and bottom lines.

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DevOps: why the methodology is so important for IT?

mjvinnovation

In the DevOps environment, teams can share code transparently, integration takes place continuously and automation helps to detect problems while still in the development phase. This does not happen in a traditional environment, where code is simply “released” to the operations department at the end of the process.

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UI Pattern Documentation Review

Boxes and Arrows

Introduction User interface (UI) patterns have the potential to make software development more efficient. This characteristic and the efficiency gains make patterns an excellent opportunity for software companies to come together and promote UI patterns to the wider development community.

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Remote Transformation: Working remotely requires cultural change

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New times call for a new mindset, a new culture, and new ways of dealing with processes and routines. This is the perfect opportunity to build a new culture together. No matter what stage your corporation is at, you need to understand that the new normal will require plunging headlong into cultural change that embraces remote work.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Design Thinking

InnovationTraining.org

We then reviewed them to see that the answer summaries made sense. Creates a culture of experimentation: Design thinking encourages the team to prototype and test their ideas. This can help teams to break down the problem into manageable parts and generate creative solutions.

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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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