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Designing a light weight UX process for small teams

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Designing User Experience (UX) is a crucial step in the new product development process.  The process shall help the product develop a personality and deliver the value proposition. UX design process needs substantial investment from development team and business users. Small teams may not have the time and resources to go through the full process of User Research, Modeling, Requirements Definition, Design Framework, Detailed Dev Sprints and Ensure Success (Metrics).  The following points shall help us keep the process on target.  1. Always have a mother ship - Latching on to a well established UXD horizontal in internal/external organisation will take burden off the team. By doing so you automatically subscribe to it's principles, policy, patterns, design guides, standards and tooling.  2. Pick the top 3-4 principles - Don't try to boil the ocean. Understand the top 3-4 important principles and their order of priority.  3. Reduce tooling overhead - You don't need to use