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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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Frequently Asked Questions about Design Thinking

InnovationTraining.org

We used AI to identify the most frequently asked questions about design thinking. We then reviewed them to see that the answer summaries made sense. Here are your design thinking FAQs and answers. You can also see our “human” responses to the big question: what is design thinking ? What is design thinking?

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower Innovation

Accounting Beyond reviewing transactions, what accounting support do you need? Graphic design? UI/UX design? Team and Process Are you using, or planning to use any software development methodologies? How big is the anticipated development team? Reporting What needs to be reported? Fulfillment?

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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.

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An Answer to the Pains of Integrating Agile and UX

Boxes and Arrows

It tied in quite nicely with the book I’m reviewing here. As sometime director of Design at Infragistics, I personally have had first hand experience trying to integrate UX into an existing, established Agile engineering process with large-ish teams. Sadly, none of them really had solutions to that problem. Enter the book.

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Are We Taking the “U” Out of UX?

Boxes and Arrows

What is a UX designer? Some excerpts: Work with the development team to follow a user-centered design approach as you work collaboratively to brainstorm and design innovative solutions to complex problems. But it seemed that they really wanted a visual designer who could prototype. Sounds great!

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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. And other problems stemmed from UX practitioners feeling disconnected from the daily life of the development teams they supported.

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