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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. In 2011 I was a UX Designer in a design studio. I designed every detail in Photoshop before handing the mockups to the developers. But in my new Agile team, I was designing fragments that felt incomplete.

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Co-Located vs. Remote/Distributed Teams: What Works and Why

The Product Coalition

Do co-located teams truly perform better? But having experienced both poorly performing, co-located teams as well as high performing distributed teams, I wanted to take a closer look at some of the research as well as experiences of others. The team members are a critical part of the overall success of distributed teams.

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Why The Product Demo Is a Dangerous Selling Tool

The Product Coalition

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels When I joined eBay back in 2011, the largest group on the Israeli R&D center was actually a content operations group. But since the roots of the team were still in content operations and back-office processes, this remained their default solution even at times where technology could have been a better one.

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Problem Statements Solve for Someone

Tyner Blain

It is important to not describe a situation as self-evidently bad , but rather to reshape your framing to discuss the problem which attends. We don’t want our teams to operate with a lack of clarity, we want them to operate comfortably with a lack of certainty.

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In Times of Scarcity, Clear Vision Beats Rapid Iteration: Lessons for Business Leaders from Singapore’s Response to COVID-19

Business of Software Conference

Lean Startup changed how we built products when it was published in 2011 – it lowered the risk in innovation by shortening development cycles. In Italy when northern Italy was testing aggressively, the directive from Rome was to chill a little because their numbers were looking unnecessarily bad.

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Intercom on Product: One for the roadmap

Intercom, Inc.

Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap. I was having a great time there, back in 2011. But then we brought in four teams – four product managers, four designers, et cetera.

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Intercom on Product: One for the roadmap

Intercom, Inc.

Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap. I was having a great time there, back in 2011. But then we brought in four teams – four product managers, four designers, et cetera.

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