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

UX Planet

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that in every country, even in Europe, a UX Designer or a Developer is always paid more than, for example, a Recruiter, a Marketing Manager or a Customer Support Team Leader, because this is not always the case. Are my motivations backed by data? Am I victim of a bias?

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Agile at Scale – Outcome Driven (or Broken)

Tyner Blain

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. Think of a couple dozen teams (a couple hundred people) working to deliver across a couple hundred systems, for a multi-billion dollar organization. Getting Faster at Building the Wrong Thing.

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Forget Methodologies, Focus on Customers

Modus Create

So let’s dive into some old and new methodologies that companies use to implement, develop and balance the three pillars. Each methodology has strengths and weaknesses, and since implementations can vary widely, it’s useful to understand how and when to apply elements of each.

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Planning and Execution in a Time of Change

The Product Coalition

For most companies it’s bad news?—?the Google, still just a scale-up in 2001, managed to come out stronger from the dot com bust and made a successful IPO in 2004. The people and teams in the organization have limited decision-making power and any deviation from the plan has to get the approval of managers/planners.