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Agile Sprint: how it brings efficiency to your business

mjvinnovation

Agile is, first and foremost, a philosophy that emerged from the Agile Manifesto when a small group of people gathered in 2001 to discuss their feelings about the traditional approach to managing software development projects. Competitive advantage. What are Agile Practices.

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Agile Mindset: How to Use Sprints to Streamline Projects

mjvinnovation

Agile Philosophy came from the Agile Manifesto, when a small group of people got together in 2001 to discuss their feelings about the traditional approach to project management for software development. It is a repetitive and incremental structure of agile software development. development begins early.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

Many bystanders are more likely to view these two giants emergence onto the global stage as business evolution rather revolution and while Samsung declared their competitive intentions in 2008 Foxconn has only recently reached the starting line of its long journey. Beware of the lure of outsourcing.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. Software was becoming an integral part of nearly every business function, and many creative software developers were working hard on better methods of programming to increase adaptability.

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Corporate Inequality Is the Defining Fact of Business Today

Harvard Business Review

Nonetheless, it is not a stretch to say that if you want to understand competition today, you have to think about inequality. Most people are used to thinking about inequality as the pay gap between a CEO and an administrative assistant, or a software developer and a manufacturing worker. There’s Too Much Competition.

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Competing in the Future.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

Those who work for the competition aren’t. Antitrust and competition policy are seeing renewed interest , including recent hearings on the subject by the Federal Trade Commission. Research by one of us (James) links this trend to software. The people lucky enough to work at these companies are doing relatively well.