Combining Agile with Design Thinking for Product Development

Why would a work process that has traditionally been used by designers be relevant in the corporate or engineering world?
It’s simple and logical: designers systematically extract, teach, learn, and apply human-centric techniques to solve problems in a creative and innovative way. So, Design Thinking is inherently optimistic, constructive, and experimental. In theory, it is a great vehicle to be more innovative, to better differentiate your brand, and to shorten the time-to-market any product or service. Design thinking on its own is not the bringer of change but when it’s combined to Agile Software Development Lifecycle can do wonders for a product organization, it is sure to bring a winning formula. The purpose of this paper is to provide practical solutions for development teams to incorporate Design Thinking principles into different phases of the Agile Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).