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Why designers fail to integrate into Agile teams

UX Planet

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. I designed every detail in Photoshop before handing the mockups to the developers. I was excited to be part of a cross-functional team and I could not wait to start working in sprints. But it wasn’t all that bad.

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The tools we use: Challenging dogma in the design process

Intercom, Inc.

In a recent talk at UX London , I discussed some lessons learned while growing the design team at Intercom, reflecting on the technology industry’s obsession with tools, and pointed out how our sense of tools as objects or apps blinds us to the reality that the processes we adopt and develop are also, in effect, tools.

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Deconstructing Being Agile

The Product Coalition

Agile vs. Being Agile Agile became popular shortly after ‘The Agile Software Development Manifesto ’ was published in 2001. Blindly adopting Agile is not a guarantee that a team will be agile , as these additional Agile rules are not essential to being agile. This is why one-size-fits-all Agile solutions are a bad idea.

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The Definition of Product Management Is Shrinking. It’s Not Good!

Product Management University

In other words, the agile development process is redefining what we call product management. Go Upstream One of the biggest culprits of poor agile execution is the lack of clear value targets that start with product planning and ripple their way into UX design and development. Here are a few pointers.

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What strong teamwork looks like: 7 proven models

Atlassian

Creating a strong, cohesive team takes intention and planning. Researchers have been studying team dynamics for decades. There’s a significant body of knowledge about which organizational structures provide the best results given the circumstances, goals, and personalities involved in a team. 5-second summary.

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The Collision of Product Management and Product Ownership

The Product Coalition

The agile manifesto turned eighteen this year, the Scrum framework is even older?—?have Scrum came about even earlier than the agile manifesto almost a whole decade to be exact (although you can traces origins earlier back to 1986 with the article The New New Product Development Game ). are they one role, two roles?

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Idea Validation?—?Much More Than Just A/B Experiments

The Product Coalition

3) Most companies use weak heuristics, opinions and archaic decision processes to place bets on a handful of unproven ideas. The alternative is of course evidence-driven product development. In product management circles the term “Product Discovery” has become most synonymous with evidence-driven product development.