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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

There are variety of Agile development approaches in use, but Scrum is currently the most popular: over 70% of software professionals using Agile methodologies employ some variant of the Scrum methodology. And other problems stemmed from UX practitioners feeling disconnected from the daily life of the development teams they supported.

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How Midsized Companies Can Avoid Fatal Acquisitions

Harvard Business Review

These executives understand the firm’s culture and have working relationships with the key functional and line executives who are crucial to integrating the target company’s team smoothly. By 2009, his team’s M&A skills were strong enough to buy a competitor that was nearly as big as Pelican.

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Insourcing at GE: The Real Story

Harvard Business Review

It needed to invest in new development labs and to co-locate teams. In the summer of 2009 management decided to bring production of a water heater back to the U.S. everyone met to review the prior day, and what they would do that day. everyone met again to review what they''d done. from an Asian contractor.

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Capturing the Innovation Mindset at Bally Technologies

Harvard Business Review

It increased R&D spending from 7-8% of revenue before 2009 to 11-12% of revenue starting in 2010, and maximized the return on that increased investment. It has a more rigorous organization structure that divides responsibilities between the innovation team and development team, and strengthens management around the opportunity pipeline.