Team Design: A Practitioner's Guide to Collaborative Innovation - Hardcover

Jones, Peter H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0738860875 ISBN 13: 9780738860879

Publisher: Xlibris Us, 2002

Synopsis

An essential guidebook and toolkit for software development teams and team leaders, Team Design organizes best practices, tried and true methods, and killer tips for team product development. This revised edition has not changed radically since 1998 - In some ways, little has changed in five years we still find real necessity for effective team facilitation in complex cross-disciplinary development projects. This version of Team Design focuses more on the role of project managers and team leaders, bringing the best of facilitation approaches to the leader s role.

About this title

About the Author

Peter H. Jones, Ph.D. is principal of Redesign Research, a consulting practice for interactive product design, customer research and innovation strategy. His projects include user experience research for web-based product concepts, creative approaches to product and usability evaluation, field evaluation of product strategy, and user interface redesign for business and information services websites. A designer and consultant in information product development, he has designed custom and commercial products, websites, and information services for large firms and start-ups.

Dr. Jones authored Team Design: A Practitioner’s Guide to Collaborative Product Development originally published in 1998 and revised for 2002. He also publishes articles and lectures in HCI and software design, extending research interests in design and innovation management.

From the Inside Flap

Team Design is a comprehensive guidebook to team product development practice. Team Design gives consultants, system designers, product managers, facilitators, and project managers a total consulting toolkit in one book. Revising Handbook of Team Design (McGraw-Hill, 1998), this book streamlines some practices and accounts for recent changes in technology and process. Team Design offers a comprehensive collaborative foundation for designing customer-centered products and leading team-focused projects. It offers formats and methods for team workshops, based on your organization, business, project type, desired end result, and lifecycle phase.

A separate chapter is devoted to each of five formats, for simple adaptation of workshop activities to product lifecycles and project phase. Workshop methods (brainstorming, diagrams, scenarios) are recommended for phase deliverables.

Team Design offers a foundation for both proven and current best practices, letting you choose and make the right fit. It will become a formidable tool for everyday project and product management.

Edition details

• Publisher: Xlibris Us
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0738860875
• ISBN 13: 9780738860879
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 547