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What Techniques Can Design Researchers Learn from Insurance Claims Investigation?
Lyzbelle Strahan shares insurance claims investigation techniques useful for designing the interaction with users during product research.
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Continuous Integration in the Mobile World
Godfrey Nolan discusses using CI for iOS and Android apps, headless emulators, tools for unit and functional testing, and mobile app deployment.
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Zero Defects : Baking Quality into the Agile Process
Ahmed Syed explains how to use testing and defect management in an Agile project to ensure product quality, addressing design quality, legacy systems, and how build management affects quality.
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Kick-starting Kanban
Rick Simmons presents a launch process meant to introduce a team to Kanban in two days, focusing on the core concepts and techniques, and by setting the team on an improvement path.
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Sufficient Design: Quality In Sync With Business Context
Joshua Kerievsky invites developers to start thinking as entrepreneurs, writing code that is “good enough” for the purpose it is supposed to serve rather than write elaborate code that is beautiful.
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Go With The Flow: Why Lean Ideas Like Kanban Work So Well In Software
James Sutton presents why Kanban works well in software development and how it can improve the culture of a group using it. Sutton also touches complementary Lean ideas and tools.
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Building for the Cloud @ Netflix
Carl Quinn presents the build and deployment architecture used by Neflix in order to provide content out of Amazon AWS.
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Winning Hearts and Minds: How to Embed UX from Scratch in a Large Organization
Michele Ide-Smith presents the lessons learned in the process of introducing UX principles and techniques into a large organization through a series of small steps.
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Software Naturalism - Embracing the Real Behind the Ideal
Michael Feathers analyzes real code bases concluding that code is not nearly as beautiful as designers aspire to, discussing the everyday decisions that alter the code bit by bit.
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How We Got Here, And What To Do About It
Barry Hawkins considers as necessary to have a development process but in the same time maintaining a critical view of it in an attempt to improve it and make it fit within the current context.
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Developer/Designer Cross Training (or how to get developers to do your work for you)
Adrian Howard advises designers to cooperate with developers from the early stages of a project in an attempt to create a product that more closely reflects the designer’s vision.
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Want Better Estimates? Stop Estimating!
Joel Semeniuk discusses ways of making better project estimates excluding guessing as much as possible.