Summer Fabian

Summer Fabian

About Summer Fabian

Summer is the ultimate Curious Geek, an Agile Certified Practitioner and Project Manager at Fusion and manages AppDigiDev projects for both traditional and agile clients. Her experience in open innovation projects, regulated spaces and new product development give her a wide lens on the right thing to do for a project and a client. She believes that people do the work and people are at the core of any project, no matter the build. She has a passion for people based models of work, transparency and the effect of emerging technologies on business, products and consumers. She is also passing fond of Gamer culture and believes every person has their own unique 'geek'.

Empowered Developers: Strength to Your User Persona!

by Summer Fabian

Agile principles put the power of quality and the definition of ‘enough’ in the hands of developers. Yes, the Product Owner and Stakeholders get final say, but the best way to optimize your developers’ strength is to give them the …

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#GRP – Best of the Digital Team Finds

by Summer Fabian

#GRP is Fusion’s internal email sharing list that we use to bring each other’s attention to something new and notable or that lies within our individual areas of interest. This week’s entry is courtesy of the Digital Solutions group and features …

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Asking a Consultant for Agile – Check Yourself for Success

by Summer Fabian

When asking a consultant if they can run a project with Agile there are assumptions on both sides that will make or break satisfaction. In my experience, these factors have the most impact when entering into an agile consultant partnership …

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User Stories? I Have No Users!

by Summer Fabian

Innovation teams are often small, multifunctional crews tasked with constant prototyping.  Being open, communicative types, they find Agile useful for most projects.  Those teams often encounter a common prototyping pain point: Who writes user stories when we don’t have any …

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UX, Gadgets, and Tools, Oh My

by Summer Fabian

Our digital team keeps up with the latest and greatest, and occasionally something turns our heads as being exceptionally notable.  Here are a few recent favorites from the wide digital world. How Google’s Page Redesign Could Affect Your Business Doug Scamahorn brought us this …

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