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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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Here’s Why Your Customer Success Strategy Needs Data Science

Gainsight

While some may think of Terminator, HAL from Odyssey 2001, or Data on Star Trek, the products of data science have very realistic uses and are deeply embedded in our everyday lives. developer acumen to deliver them. But, this can be challenging if your company lacks strong internal alignment across teams. Business Acumen.

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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.

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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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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. Instead we want to assess and test dozens of ideas quickly and cheaply, and only invest in those that move us in the right direction. But not for all.

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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. That is perhaps more of an American, German and some Northern European countries reality.

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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.