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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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Product Management is Culture Management

Mind the Product

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. Every day, I lead a product standup for a team of four engineers: Syrian, Chinese, Ukrainian, and Singaporean Chinese.

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Forget Methodologies, Focus on Customers

Modus Create

On the other hand, capitalizing on a company’s current position to appease shareholders or investors, without innovating, improving, or optimizing, might be profitable in the short term, but in the long run you will likely lose market share. The outcome of a project is well defined, so there are few surprises in what the team delivers.

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The Collision of Product Management and Product Ownership

The Product Coalition

The principles which sit behind the manifesto were largely created by engineers and vastly aimed at fixing organisational dysfunction and making their lives better. In fact they decided to broaden the scope of the role by bringing it closer to the team and customers?—?this this was the creation of the Product Owner role.

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Why we need Product Management, with Rich Mironov

BrainMates

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. Why do we need a Product Management team? I built this a decade ago for engineers because engineers need input/output diagrams to understand things. Do they have money?

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Design Challenges: Designers Demand Reform as Unfair Tasks Miss the Mark (part II)

UX Planet

. — I have 1000 candidates I cannot go through all their portfolios I cannot verify the validity of this comment, perhaps it is so in the United States or perhaps is true for large businesses or very desired one, for example I kinda remember that NNGroup gets around that amount or more when they open a position. Am I victim of a bias?

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The Many Flavors Of Agile: What’s The Right One For Your Team? | Bethany Pagels-Minor, Apple | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

Agile methodology sounds confusing and difficult, but Bethany Pagels-Minor breaks it down to bite-size slices of delicious cakes that will will help every team work better, communicate better, and provide better returns. It’s called ‘the many flavors of agile and what’s the right one for your team?’ Unsubscribe anytime.

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