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Navigating Technical Debt in the Automotive Industry

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According to McKinsey , this “tax” on development comprises about 40 percent of IT balance sheets, stemming from the intense pressure to enter the market and gather feedback swiftly. Finally, the integrity of software performance significantly shapes brand perception and overall business success.

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Win at Digital Transformation By Connecting Portfolio Management and Value Stream Management 

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However, many digital transformation initiatives struggle to deliver the expected financial value, with more than half lagging behind original estimates, according to a Gartner survey of CIOs. It’s critical to be asking the right questions: How does strategy become a plan? Are the right objectives being focused on?

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

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.” | 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. Not to mention the improvement in productivity and the reduction of rework costs, especially in the development process. This is crucial.

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The role of design thinking in fixed price contracts

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We often rely on these people to translate how the business works into a format that can be understood by a development team. Nobody will ever be able to accurately translate how people work, as exceptionally well as the people who actually do the work. Lack of visualisation of end state functionality prior to building.

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Do You Know Your Users?

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False consensus bias contributes to making bad decisions when we design software. Alan Cooper noted this type of bias while wondering why otherwise smart, talented people often created such crappy software. Have you ever heard anyone on your team say, “what if the customer wanted [some feature]?” How to create personas.

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The role of design thinking in fixed price contracts

Dawid

We often rely on these people to translate how the business works into a format that can be understood by a development team. Nobody will ever be able to accurately translate how people work, as exceptionally well as the people who actually do the work. Lack of visualisation of end state functionality prior to building.

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User Experience Research at Scale

Boxes and Arrows

By establishing a constant stream of non-biased opinions and open lines of communication which are immune to politics and ever-shifting strategies, research keeps design and development efforts grounded in what should already be the application’s first priority–the user. Conferences are a great way to survey new and existing users.

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