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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

By 2009, his team’s M&A skills were strong enough to buy a competitor that was nearly as big as Pelican. They have strong due diligence skills. The reason is that conducting due diligence will be costly and arduous because small companies often have poor reporting and accounting systems.

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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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Redefining the Patient Experience with Collaborative Care

Harvard Business Review

A second was introduced in a medical-surgical unit at Theda Clark Hospital in Neenah in 2009, and a third in another medical-surgical unit at Appleton Medical Center in 2010. The physician leads the clinical assessment and planning process but as a team member/partner. Another lean tenet is assessment before action.

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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.

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The Critical Skills for Leading Major Change in America’s Health System

Harvard Business Review

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. Two personal stories illustrate these points.

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