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6 ways your architecture can hurt agility

When I do agile coaching for our clients, I hear a lot of Yesbuts. That's when I say something that agile teams are supposed to do (like short iterations or frequent releases), and the client says "Yes, but..." There are always lots of...

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4 ways to keep your design skills fresh

Web design is a rapidly changing field, and it's not easy to keep up with all the changes. It's critical that you not only keep up to date on the latest technology changes and trends, but you also have to keep your designs fresh and...

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3 sources of UX inspiration

Mariana Lopez is our UX lead and a key part of our most successful projects. Her ability to get inside the customers' head and quickly understand their processes and challenges is an important part of the UX and design assessment work...

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My Chores App

As our tagline for AgilityFeat says, we are entrepreneurs, it's in our dna. And for some of us, some of that DNA is shared. Andrea and Daniel Phillips are the sibling founders of the My Chores App. The are also AgilityFeat team members so...

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UX and Agile: How we do it

UX Magazine had an article last month by Michael Lai entitled "UX and Agile: Tying the knot", which used a great marriage analogy to discuss how UX and agile are and must be intertwined. At AgilityFeat we are very passionate about both UX...

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Red stickies as an expedite lane in Scrum

When teams move to Scrum from a more chaotic development method, there is often a struggle with convincing the new Product Owner (or the business folks that they report to) that the team cannot be retargeted on a whim. A benefit of Scrum...

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Lean Start-up, now what?

Back in November we sat down with Tony Cappeart, COO and Co-Founder at Contactually to talk about how they are applying Lean Startup methodologies to build their business. We talked about how Lean Startup had guided their product design,...

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Setting up a cadence on your agile team

I'd like to share with you a common cadence that we are using on agile teams that I coach, and also on many of AgilityFeat's development teams with our clients. For an agile team to get into a solid rhythm of work, they need to have a set...

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Building a portfolio of Lean Startups

For those watching technology trends, it's no surprise that people are talking about startups and their role in the new economy.  Regardless of whether you believe startups help or hurt the economy, there's little argument that the future...

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