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Whether they seek to conduct scientific research or product development, practitioners of applied human factors and cognitive systems engineering must carefully consider how their resources shall be allocated to both yield innovation while ensuring tangibility to the outcomes of their work. For small businesses, academic teams, and consultants, these two objectives are oftentimes antithetic: Expanding resources towards one is done at the expense of the other. To solve this gap, we propose the Spiraled Agile Design Sprinting Approach (SPADES), an activity and schedule-based framework within which all stakeholders collaboratively optimize what they do and how, while ensuring that neither innovation nor tangibility is sacrificed for the other. We applied SPADES to research efforts in critical domains, ranging from aircraft maintenance and intelligence analysis to missile defense analytics and emergency management. We report here on the lessons learned over the course of these efforts.
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The design and implementation of SPADES would not have been possible without the contributions and feedback of many Aptima staff, including Kara Orvis, Adam Fouse, Diane Miller, Chad Weiss, and Mary Freiman. Similarly, the author wishes to thank our Government customers in the Department of Defense who have supported the implementation of SPADES through several SBIR and STTR contracts. The views and conclusions presented in this paper are those of the author and do not represent an official opinion, expressed or implied, of the Department of Defense.
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Bruni, S. (2020). Balancing Innovation and Tangibility Using the Spiraled Agile Design Sprinting Approach. In: Markopoulos, E., Goonetilleke, R., Ho, A., Luximon, Y. (eds) Advances in Creativity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Communication of Design. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1218. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51626-0_2
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