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How to incorporate UI design as part of Scrum work, collaboration between Product Owner and UI Designer




If you want to ensure that your product / software application is successful, there are a number of things you need to care of. If you look at the success of many of Apple’s products such as the iPod, the iPad, iTunes, and the iPhone, it is about ensuring that your workflow appeals to customers, [...]



Problem in Scrum: Looking at technical debt, which will cause more problems as you move ahead ..




What is technical debt ? Well, I will not try and give a definition for technical debt. Instead, consider that you have 2 approaches to build some great new features. You can do something in a quick way without trying to build a great design, or you can build it the proper way through the [...]



Problem in Scrum: Inability to prioritize the architectural and design tasks – Part 2




In the previous post (Not putting design priority), I had talked about how a Scrum team can face challenges in terms of prioritizing the architecture and design tasks. In this post, I will continue my previous discussions and talk about how teams do actually place a lot of emphasis on the design part, and how [...]



Problem in Scrum: Inability to prioritize the architectural and design tasks – Part 1




Over a period of time, some of the discussions that I have had with fellow managers, and more specifically with managers who play the role of Scrum Masters come to a conclusion revealing a weakness in Scrum implementation. Projects where there is initial time spent on planning the architecture and design for the end project [...]