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Enterprise visual design: Tool comparison

While creating a complex visual design, have you ever thought that there must be an easier way? When interaction and visual designers face the challenge of creating a complex design over several months, the choice and the correct usage of tools is crucial.

by Karsten Nolte

16 min. reading time
Agile & Usability, Usability

Enterprise Visual Design: Beware of these easy traps

If you work like me as a visual (interaction) designer on big concepts with multiple colleagues over months to a year, you face completely different challenges than when developing a small concept.

by Karsten Nolte

4 min. reading time
Usability, Agile Software Development, Agile & Usability

SPIDR – five simple techniques for a perfectly split user story

Some time ago I discovered an interesting and helpful method for splitting user stories into more lightweight stories more easily and effectively. Agile coach and co-founder of the Scrum Alliance, Mike Cohn, noted that "almost every story can be split with one of ...

by Katharina Lattenkamp

6 min. reading time
Agile Software Development, Agile & Usability

Never Write Unit Tests

Just kidding. Write unit tests. Always. For everything. Period.

by Jan Mosig

7 min. reading time
Agile Software Development, Agile & Usability, Scrum

Does the Scrum Master have to be a subject matter expert?

More and more companies are agile, or want to be. Many of them choose Scrum as an agile framework and are therefore looking for qualified personnel. In particular, the Scrum Master qualification is increasingly being sought.

by Gerd Huhn

3 min. reading time
Usability, itemis ANALYZE, Agile & Usability

How to convince customers of design decisions by the use of traceability

During the software development process various partial results are generated, but it is not always easy to maintain an overview of them. This is however essential for monitoring progress, analysis of the impact of changes and the justification of (design) ...

by Sandra Schering

7 min. reading time
Agile Software Development, Agile & Usability

How I use User Story Mapping in Release Planning

In this article, we look at a very specific technique that will make the work of the product owner easier and offers great benefits to the whole team: User Story Mapping. What is that? And how can I adapt the method to my specific project?

by Katharina Lattenkamp

6 min. reading time
Agile Software Development, Agile & Usability, Scrum

When a sprint feels like running: Terminology in Scrum

No doubt: Scrum comes with a lot of great ideas – and even better: They are applicable on a product development process. But on the other hand, there are some strange terms and metaphors which may lead to misunderstandings in the Scrum process – at least they were ...

by Boris Holzer

4 min. reading time
Agile Software Development, Agile & Usability, Embedded

Considering Agile for your tool chain development

Developing and integrating complex toolchains in automotive companies is a challenging task. A number of those challenges is directly addressed by the principles behind the "Agile Manifesto". So it is worth while to see what "Agile" has to offer for these, ...

by Andreas Graf

3 min. reading time

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