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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

Through research and my own consulting experience, I’ve found four practices that explain these companies’ mastery of the art of acquisition: They only buy companies that fit their core strategy. But midsize companies such as EORM shop carefully, making sure the deal is in line with their core strategy. The San Jose, Calif.-based

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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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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. Building trust through a transparent decision process was the first strategy we pursued.

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