Product Development Processes
How product development processes have evolved
This sketch shows some of the milestones of how product development processes have evolved. While it is a simplified view of the evolution, it highlights the most important factors.
These are the main approaches:
- Waterfall Model
- Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum)
- Lean UX
- Design Sprint & Dual Track processes
Additional ingredients, foundations that drive the evolution: Design Thinking, Lean Startup
Digital Products & Services
The most significant difference between physical products (e.g. cars, airplanes) and today’s software products is that the latter are in constant change, those are complex, unpredictable systems. Consequently, the processes that were invented for the products like cars needed to be changed to better satisfy the business- and customer needs.
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Recommended Reading & Useful Links
- Knapp, J., Zeratsjky, J., Kowitz, B. (2016). Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
- Gothelf, J., Seiden, J. (2016). Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams
- Reis, E. (2011.) The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
- The Design Sprint
- The Evolution of UX Process Methodology
- Dual Track Agile by Marty Cagan
- Agile Doesn’t Have a Brain
- Design Thinking
- IDEO’s website
- Design thinking origin story plus some of the people who made it all happen
- The Basics of Design Sprints and Other Jargon
- Had enough of agile sprints? Time for design sprints
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