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Why agile teams fail without UX research

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Failures to involve end users or to collect comprehensive data representing user needs are described and solutions to avoid such failures are proposed.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 60, Issue 9
      September 2017
      94 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3134526
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