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Integrating ‘Agile’ Approaches into ‘Waterfall’ Cultures

InnovationTraining.org

is the guiding question, and we develop solutions based upon our understanding of the answer. If we can understand this set of desired outcomes, we can plan backwards from that endpoint to determine a series of steps in product or service design. Step 2 – Design : Build a system that responds to these requirements.

Agile 74
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Why is developing digital products one of the solutions to overcome the crisis?

mjvinnovation

What makes us believe that developing digital products is not only a solution to overcome the crisis, but also to generate business value after it too. Who would have thought it would be possible to get a credit card without any contact with human service, not even sending the documentation? Don’t forget: Design creates a link.

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Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment

Boxes and Arrows

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. This is an extreme example of where SCRUM went bad.

Agile 108
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As our lives become more automated, these are the skills you’ll need

Faisal Hoque

For instance, an engineer who can develop brilliant new product designs but who can’t effectively communicate the value of those designs to others (or collaborate with design teams to bring those ideas to life) is doing himself and his organization a major disservice. FOCUSING ON “SOFT SKILLS” PAYS OFF–LITERALLY.

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As our lives become more automated, these are the skills you’ll need

Faisal Hoque

For instance, an engineer who can develop brilliant new product designs but who can’t effectively communicate the value of those designs to others (or collaborate with design teams to bring those ideas to life) is doing himself and his organization a major disservice. FOCUSING ON “SOFT SKILLS” PAYS OFF–LITERALLY.

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The Engineering Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

This is an excerpt from from Kim Goodwin’s excellent Designing for the Digital Age. Try to speak with engineering management as well as the design engineer(s), if such a role exists; it’s seldom a good idea to involve the entire engineering team at this point. Programmers and engineers may initially be wary of designers.

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IA Summit 09 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

– Karl Fast Do we have the conceptual tools necessary for designing with next-generation technologies? Karl Fast , professor in the Information Architecture & Knowledge Management program at Kent State University, argues that our conceptual tools for interaction design are more limited, and limiting, than we currently believe.