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Professional project implementation skillset

It takes a consistent collaboration and a detailed and clear plan to build a project that addresses a certain problem in an adequate manner and convenient time. Below I am going to share with you how to use the design thinking approach and communication skills for a better project implementation plan.

The first step is a thorough understanding of the problem you're trying to solve. This involves getting in touch with your customer and empathetically putting yourself in their shoes, conducting numerous researches, and deep analysis on the details of the challenge they are facing. This facilitates generating great creative solutions ideas which the next step. The product management team, UI/UX designers, and developers get together with all information gathered in the first step and use them to tackle the challenge with multiple ideas.

Subsequently, prototyping and testing come in place to find accurate solutions from the previously generated ideas. Customers provide their feedback and the product is readjusted accordingly.

Moreover, communication is a major key since we have different personas in product development from managers, designers, and developers. Therefore the best communication practices should be taken into consideration with a high priority. Preparing ahead of time for the meetings is crucial. Ensuring stable connectivity, setting up an undistractable environment, minding body gestures and postures and voice comfortability helps to have smooth and organized virtual calls.

In conclusion, while developing the real estate app, we used the design thinking approach to explicitly understand what we were going to develop and how we were going to do it in a short period of time. Also, we applied professional remote communication tips to have well-organized zoom calls that would save us time to write code and build cool features. This proves that the aforementioned approach and best practices are profitable.

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