This document outlines an iterative product development process that includes preparation, development, and delivery phases. It emphasizes gathering stakeholder goals in preparation, reconciling objectives in inception, and conducting workshops to conceptualize a simple organizing structure and core design. During development, iterations are used to create differentiated user experiences within technical and workflow constraints. The inception phase concludes by establishing the product architecture. Sample practices for inception include daily stand-ups and workshops, weekly planning and reviews, and retrospectives for continuous improvement.
Sketching, Wireframing, Prototyping - How to Be Agile and Avoid Half-Baked Us...Philipp Schroeder
A video recording of the talk is available online: http://youtu.be/C6HjF8XlxH0?t=2m32s
Compelling and powerful web applications such as Google Maps and Facebook have become mainstream and are setting a benchmark in terms of usability and design. Meanwhile, agile development is taking the software development world by storm. UX designers used to the traditional "waterfall" way of working - with lots of design documentation and big handovers - often struggle with the new development approach.
Without any claim to silver bullets, I will outline some practices and guiding principles for improving user interfaces by iterating on frontend design & code by way of sketching, wireframing and prototyping.
I intend to share some lessons learned from working in a agile development environment and talk about ways of collaborating effectively with stakeholders & team members.
Compelling and powerful web applications such as Google Maps and Facebook have become mainstream and are setting a benchmark in terms of usability and design. Meanwhile, agile development is taking the software development world by storm. UX designers used to the traditional "waterfall" way of working - with lots of design documentation and big handovers - often struggle with the new development approach.
Without any claim to silver bullets, I will outline some practices and guiding principles for improving user interfaces by iterating on frontend design & code by way of sketching, wireframing and prototyping.
I intend to share some lessons learned from working in a agile development environment and talk about ways of collaborating effectively with stakeholders & team members.
Integrating SCRUM with classical Project ManagementJens Hoffmann
SCRUM and PRINCE2 integrated, is a powerfull solution to scale the agile method for large projects. The conventional and mature project management approaches like PRINCE2 or PMI PMBOK are gaining more resillience from this as the become more flexible and adabtible to changing demands and needs.
Sketching, Wireframing, Prototyping - How to Be Agile and Avoid Half-Baked Us...Philipp Schroeder
A video recording of the talk is available online: http://youtu.be/C6HjF8XlxH0?t=2m32s
Compelling and powerful web applications such as Google Maps and Facebook have become mainstream and are setting a benchmark in terms of usability and design. Meanwhile, agile development is taking the software development world by storm. UX designers used to the traditional "waterfall" way of working - with lots of design documentation and big handovers - often struggle with the new development approach.
Without any claim to silver bullets, I will outline some practices and guiding principles for improving user interfaces by iterating on frontend design & code by way of sketching, wireframing and prototyping.
I intend to share some lessons learned from working in a agile development environment and talk about ways of collaborating effectively with stakeholders & team members.
Compelling and powerful web applications such as Google Maps and Facebook have become mainstream and are setting a benchmark in terms of usability and design. Meanwhile, agile development is taking the software development world by storm. UX designers used to the traditional "waterfall" way of working - with lots of design documentation and big handovers - often struggle with the new development approach.
Without any claim to silver bullets, I will outline some practices and guiding principles for improving user interfaces by iterating on frontend design & code by way of sketching, wireframing and prototyping.
I intend to share some lessons learned from working in a agile development environment and talk about ways of collaborating effectively with stakeholders & team members.
Integrating SCRUM with classical Project ManagementJens Hoffmann
SCRUM and PRINCE2 integrated, is a powerfull solution to scale the agile method for large projects. The conventional and mature project management approaches like PRINCE2 or PMI PMBOK are gaining more resillience from this as the become more flexible and adabtible to changing demands and needs.
Presentación del libro The Agile Samurai de Jonathan Rasmusson. Part II Agile Project Inception.
http://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/the-agile-inception-deck/
OSOCO Breakfast Speech.
Date: 31-05-2011
Inception workshop - Kickstarting an Agile project in styleJenny Wong
How does a typical project kick-off look like in an Agile environment? Join us where we simulate a sample of workshops that would take place in a project inception!
This was a session given at XP2010 conference, with Danilo Sato.
Inception es un workshop, un espacio-taller ágil y participativo que guía los primeros pasos de una iniciativa. En uno o dos días de trabajo intenso, se consigue conceptualizar el producto, fijar objetivos comunes y alinear las visiones de todos los actores involucrados en el proceso.
En uno de los talleres que hicimos en Buenos Aires, creamos una presentación que incluye cada una de las dinámicas, espero que les sirva como ejemplo de los diferentes pasos de esta reunión.:
Amy Willis - World Usability Day Chicago 2013Orthogonal
Trends in Healthcare Usability Reviewed:
- Will see increase in personal care apps
- Balance usability with requests of health care providers
- Even though app with users all the time, still difficult to enter data frequently
- Even on iOS, “basic” functionality not well understood by non-tech users
- Balancing regulatory compliance - HIPAA, FDA, EU - with usability
HXR 2016: Human Focused Innovation in a Clinical Setting -Lesley Solomon, Bri...HxRefactored
This section of the agenda will feature leaders in innovation, patient experience, and design within a clinical setting. Each panelist will present the current state of experiential innovation at their organization, what successes they have seen, what situations they have learned from, and what their challenges and obstacles are, and where they would like to see things head in the future. Then Amy Cueva will guide the group in a discussion around strategy, measurement, culture change, and other important topics relevant to delivering phenomenal experiences.
Development and implementation of a system to support prediction of suicide risk in the Department of Veterans Affairs - DR. Robert Bossarte and Paul Bradley
Slides from my talk at Agile India 2012 (http://agile2012.in). This talk introduces concepts of lean startup and presents a case study of product development at Ennova (www.ennova.com.au)
Presentación del libro The Agile Samurai de Jonathan Rasmusson. Part II Agile Project Inception.
http://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/the-agile-inception-deck/
OSOCO Breakfast Speech.
Date: 31-05-2011
Inception workshop - Kickstarting an Agile project in styleJenny Wong
How does a typical project kick-off look like in an Agile environment? Join us where we simulate a sample of workshops that would take place in a project inception!
This was a session given at XP2010 conference, with Danilo Sato.
Inception es un workshop, un espacio-taller ágil y participativo que guía los primeros pasos de una iniciativa. En uno o dos días de trabajo intenso, se consigue conceptualizar el producto, fijar objetivos comunes y alinear las visiones de todos los actores involucrados en el proceso.
En uno de los talleres que hicimos en Buenos Aires, creamos una presentación que incluye cada una de las dinámicas, espero que les sirva como ejemplo de los diferentes pasos de esta reunión.:
Amy Willis - World Usability Day Chicago 2013Orthogonal
Trends in Healthcare Usability Reviewed:
- Will see increase in personal care apps
- Balance usability with requests of health care providers
- Even though app with users all the time, still difficult to enter data frequently
- Even on iOS, “basic” functionality not well understood by non-tech users
- Balancing regulatory compliance - HIPAA, FDA, EU - with usability
HXR 2016: Human Focused Innovation in a Clinical Setting -Lesley Solomon, Bri...HxRefactored
This section of the agenda will feature leaders in innovation, patient experience, and design within a clinical setting. Each panelist will present the current state of experiential innovation at their organization, what successes they have seen, what situations they have learned from, and what their challenges and obstacles are, and where they would like to see things head in the future. Then Amy Cueva will guide the group in a discussion around strategy, measurement, culture change, and other important topics relevant to delivering phenomenal experiences.
Development and implementation of a system to support prediction of suicide risk in the Department of Veterans Affairs - DR. Robert Bossarte and Paul Bradley
Slides from my talk at Agile India 2012 (http://agile2012.in). This talk introduces concepts of lean startup and presents a case study of product development at Ennova (www.ennova.com.au)
See how to integrate the best-practice project management standard PRINCE2 with agile development methods like SCRUM or DSDM Atern. Speed up your projects and stay in control.
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Learn how to identify and find earlyvangelists and how to engage with them, what metrics they care about and how they can help you get the metrics that you need for the rest of the market.
The medical device industry is facing unprecedented challenges due to emerging technologies and increased regulatory scrutiny.
Current “waterfall” product development methods are ill-suited to dealing with the pace of change and uncertainty that product development organizations are facing. This eBook addresses:
* The shortcomings of waterfall development specifically in regulatory environments.
* How agile development meets the safety, reliability and regulatory needs of the medical device and diagnostics industry.
* How agile development can help ensure delivery of successful software.
The Other Side of Wireless - Connecting Medical Devices with Mobile, Cloud Co...Orthogonal
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Lean Innovation within UnitedHealth GroupOrthogonal
UnitedHealth Group's Kunjorn Chambundabongse and Pathfinder's Todd Wyder share lessons learned from their collaboration on applying the lean startup approach to a large innovation portfolio.
Topics include:
* How a lean innovation approach provides a more efficient way to determine which ideas merit further development and to rapidly bring the right ones to product/market fit.
* How business model analysis, rapid cycles of hypothesis testing using minimal experiments and feedback from real customers can help you decide when to pivot, when to persevere, and when to allocate your innovation budget to other ideas.
* How to manage an innovation portfolio to maximize returns
The biggest challenges they faced and how they attacked them
* Changing Culture and Mindset
* What's Next.
Hacking n’ Healthcare is a comic strip created by Pathfinder Software that provides a funny look inside some of the biggest challenges in healthcare technology. In this comic strip we feature the likely future scenario of helicopter parents over-sensoring their children with all parties overwhelmed and not happy.
Hacking N' Healthcare -- Patient Alerts? Orthogonal
Hacking n’ Healthcare is a comic strip created by Pathfinder Software that provides a funny look inside some of the biggest challenges in healthcare technology. This comic features ePrescribing alerts and what should be a quick doctor visit.
Hacking N' Healthcare: Mobile App DesignOrthogonal
Hacking N’ Healthcare is a comic strip that takes a humorous look at the challenges often associated with implementing health information technology. In this case Mobile App User Experience Design.
Is it self-tracking? We are only beginning to understand the power of self-tracking be it due to the quantified self movement or because of the increasing number of connected medical devices. A real opportunity is in understanding how mobile devices will play a key role in the future of our personal health. Medical Devices, sensors, big data, cloud computing are and will continue to enable continuous monitoring of people and patients.
Maintaining one's health greatly relies on the gathering and analyzing of health indicators like weight, diet, exercise routine or symptoms. Many U.S. adults or 'Trackers' already track many of these indicators. What follows is a look at the who, how, and why of being a 'Tracker'.
Are You Ready For Sensors In Healthcare?Orthogonal
Wether wearable, investable, or on device, sensors in healthcare are poised to enable interventions and predictive capabilities delivering billions in savings and a truer sense of personal care. The next logical step in this evolution is for sensors to help manage chronic disease, which affect more than 140 million individuals in the United States, and account for more than 75% of our healthcare expenditures.
Lean Startup for Healthcare: Workshop at Healthbox Orthogonal
A workshop on how the Lean Startup approach to innovation applies in a healthcare setting, delivered by Pathfinder Software CEO Bernhard Kappe to the inaugural class at the Healthbox startup accelerator
Lean + UX + Agile: Putting It All TogetherOrthogonal
Lean Startup, Pragmatic Marketing, User Experience Design and Agile Development are all approaches to improve your odds of creating successful products.
Are they mutually exclusive, or can you assemble them together to make a lean, mean product success machine?
Pathfinder Software's Amy Willis (UX) Bernhard Kappe (Products Strategy) and Reid MacTavish (Agile Development) share their lessons learned in making lean+ux+agile work.
Agile Development for FDA Regulated Medical SoftwareOrthogonal
The FDA regulates software for medical devices, and may in future regulate mobile medical software as well. Can you speed up time to market with Agile development in an FDA regulated medical environment?
Pathfinder Software shares their experience developing software using lean ux and agile software development best practices for medical devices and mobile medical software.
Great User Experience is critical to product success. Can you get great user experience at startup speed? Pathfinder Software's Bob Moll and Bernhard Kappe share how design methods can be applied to the hypthesize-test-learn processes of a lean startup, and the benefits of doing so before product development begins.
This talk was presented at the Chicago Lean Startup Circle.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
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Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
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Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
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We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
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Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
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Agile Inception Illustrated
1. Preparation Development Delivery
Production
Inception Iteration 1 Iteration 2 Iteration ... Iteration ... Iteration n Launch
Readiness
“It’s gotta
“It’s gotta work!” “It’s gotta sell!”
be finished!”
GATHER STAKEHOLDER GOALS
2. Preparation Development Delivery
Production
Inception Iteration 1 Iteration 2 Iteration ... Iteration ... Iteration n Launch
Readiness
Marketing
Technology
Business
RECONCILE OBJECTIVES
3. Preparation Development Delivery
Production
Inception Iteration 1 Iteration 2 Iteration ... Iteration ... Iteration n Launch
Readiness
Understand the data and
technical constraints
User Interviews Multi-user workflows
WORKSHOPS
Workflow analysis
(as is, to be) Brand and
marketing impact
Conceptualize simple organizing
structure
CONDUCT WORKSHOPS TO BRING THE
VISION TO LIFE
4. Preparation Development Delivery
Production
Inception Iteration 1 Iteration 2 Iteration ... Iteration ... Iteration n Launch
Readiness
Differentiators
Marketing Usability
User Needs and Desires Technical Architecture
User Experience Workflow
Branding UI Architecture
CREATE THE CORE DESIGN AND
ARCHITECTURE (END INCEPTION)
5. Preparation Development Delivery
Production
Inception Iteration 1 Iteration 2 Iteration ... Iteration ... Iteration n Launch
Readiness
DAILY WEEKLY INCEPTION
Stand Up IPM Goals
(checkpoint, adjust) (plan for week, improve process
Workshop and daily activities)
(group, small teams) Showcase Weekly Iteration
Consolidate (review results with all preview
(document, new ?’s, ideas) next week)
Workshop Retrospective
(review, explore deeper, test (continuous process
improvement) Delivery Plan!
assumptions)
Consolidate
SAMPLE INCEPTION PRACTICES
Editor's Notes
Inception begins with listening to each stakeholder’s project goals. There is usually a wide disparity in the overall vision and scope at this stage.\n
Each stakeholder provides their perspective on expected business benefits, success criteria, marketing strategy, and technology assumptions. This information is captured visually for everyone to see. \n
An iterative series of structured workshops enables us to drill down into more detail and gain new insights into the solution space.\n
Inception concludes with a shared vision for the project and prepares the team for an agile delivery phase.\n
Inception uses a set of enabling practices and follows a regular pattern which prepares the team for agile development iterations.\n