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    Why you should bring the UX Designer closer to the Product Development action

    Given the crucial role that UX design plays in delivering software that delights end users, it’s important that the UX designer is brought in as early as possible during a product’s development. In doing so, a better software product can be built – as well as delivered faster – to accelerate the value delivery to...

    Learning New Things

    It’s mid-2015. Our product and platform had evolved from a pure Java application to a mixed-technology web-based solution, and I found myself realizing that I had to up my game. I’d built many web applications before. But my drive to hone my skills was coming from the company’s need to move ahead with a faster,...

    SAFe®, Scrum, Kanban Share a Bottleneck and It’s Not What You Think

    Even in today’s economic downturn, where U.S. job postings are down overall compared to 2019, tech hiring is showing signs of being more resilient than average. In fact, seven of the ten most in-demand tech jobs are for developers—and none are for QA.  That’s a bit alarming, because the Flow Metrics of several Fortune 100...

    SAFe® 5.0: How to Avoid This Big Mistake

    Enterprise agility can be hard to achieve for companies that weren’t built from the ground up as software companies. Old habits die hard, even under the glossy new surface of SAFe operating procedures and cadences.  Similar to the beloved genre of transformation TV shows, there is a key to what sticks. Queer Eye gives fabulous...

    Tasktop 3.6 released: IBM DOORS, Jama, integrating things

    Nothing catches the technologist’s eye like an elegantly designed gadget, with software and hardware flowing together in design harmony. The trouble is that traditionally, the way we build software and the way we build physical things have had very separate lifecycles. The V-Model of systems engineering provides the predictability needed to assemble little things into...

    Project To Product, Software, And Safety: Getting In The Same Plane

    This blog was originally posted on the IT Revolution blog on December 18, 2018. Project to Product tells a story of what we can learn about building software by walking down the BMW Group Leipzig plant production line. The other wonder of mass production that makes repeated appearances throughout the book is the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which has...

    Blueprint Guest: Improving Accuracy On Large-Scale Agile Projects

    Defining complete, accurate software requirements has long challenged organizations, and those challenges have grown exponentially, particularly in large organizations delivering sizeable projects in complex environments. The business environment has become increasingly urgent as new customer demands compel organizations to innovate quickly to capitalize on fleeting opportunities. Business needs IT to deliver faster than ever. At...