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Integrating ‘Agile’ Approaches into ‘Waterfall’ Cultures

InnovationTraining.org

Agile” and “Waterfall” offer us very different approaches to project management. These processes can each guide us, depending upon our goals, knowledge, and values surrounding stakeholder engagement. is the guiding question, and we develop solutions based upon our understanding of the answer. Core Elements of Waterfall.

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The Art of Agile

etventure

Agile development has been around since the 90s, and became popular shortly after the turn of the millennium, when the Manifesto for Agile Software Development was formulated and signed by Kent Beck and 16 fellow software developers. If it is not applied properly, agile development can easily turn into chaos!

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User experience: ROI and methods to measure your investment in UX

mjvinnovation

Even in the face of this reality, it still takes a good deal of convincing to make all the stakeholders of a company understand the impacts of UX projects. ” | In the study, companies like Apple and Coca-Cola outperformed the rating agency Standard & Poor’s by 228%, which indicates the industry’s average performance.

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Hackathons simplified

hackerearth

A hackathon , also known as a codefest, is typically a day-long coding competition where a bunch of software developers, computer programmers, designers, and others join hands to improve upon or build a new software program. Hackathons maybe theme-based. In fact, it may be one of the most challenging tasks. Work under pressure.

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The role of design thinking in fixed price contracts

Dawid

The life of many ‘simple’ fixed price projects. These ‘simple’ projects are often ugly, painful, political and expensive. We often rely on these people to translate how the business works into a format that can be understood by a development team. Green, green, green, red red red red red red red. And guess what?

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Intentionality and the Differentiating Competitive Advantage 

Planview

Last month, Planview released the inaugural 2023 Project to Product State of the Industry Report , and it is well worth the read. I’m also referencing upstream activities, software development technical impediments, and post-build activities. I saw customers experience outstanding success.

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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.

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