Tag: Software Development

Lean vs. Agile vs. Design Thinking: What You Really Need to Know to Build High-Performing Digital Product Teams | Book Series

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Overview:

As the technology is evolving, companies are defining their success element by adopting, integrating and leveraging a quality software product to customers. This short, tactical book synthesizes the relation between Lean Startup, Design Thinking, and Agile Software Development by giving importance to values that underpin all these three methods, rather than the rituals and practices. The author of this book is Jeff Gothelf, who has also authored an award-winning book ‘Lean UX and Sense & Respond’. The tactics and strategies in this book, draws on Jeff’s years of experience as a Team Lead and Coach in companies ranging from small to large enterprises.

Lean vs. Agile vs. Design Thinking is refreshingly brief practical guide leaders and practitioners who are struggling to implement new methodologies like Lean, Design Thinking and Agile. If you’re a product manager, software engineer, or a designer, the practical tools and tips are immediately applicable to your team’s goals.

Author:

Jeff Gothelf

Published In:

2017

Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience | Book Series

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Overview:

This book is written by Tom Greever, UX Director at Bitovi, has hugely contributed in writing books that helps companies and organizations to design better websites and applications. In this book, the author conveys that talking to people about your product can seem to be very easy and basic, but doing it efficiently can be difficult. In such cases, communication plays a crucial role and the way you communicate with stakeholders, clients, and non-designers about your design can be challenging. But a most articulate person is likely to win, as he has mastered the art of communication through which the customers get convinced.

This practical guide focuses on principles, tactics, and actionable methods for presenting your designs. Whether you design UX, websites, or products, you’ll learn how to win over anyone who has influence over the project—with the goal of creating the best experience for the end user.

  • Walk through the process of preparing for and presenting your designs
  • Understand stakeholder perspectives, and learn how to empathize with them
  • Cultivate both implicit and explicit listening skills
  • Learn tactics and formulas for expressing the most effective response to feedback
  • Discover why the way you follow through is just as crucial as the meeting itself
  • Educate your stakeholders by sharing the chapter from this book on how to work with designers

Authors:

Tom Greever

Published In:

2015