Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

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. How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Fix errors faster.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. In the past, IBM mostly provided enterprise software to customers who installed it on their own computers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

While both measures are less than perfect, and we recognize that many companies use Eastern Europe and South American engineering sites, the GEI works well to demonstrate the diversity of industries—it isn’t just software and IT—with a significant portion of their R&D overseas. The top thirty companies are shown below.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. Data science and AI lie at the most overheated end of the software engineering spectrum, and there is a massive shortage of graduates and postgraduates emerging with the necessary skills. Code for Life now has over 135,000 users spread across nearly 100 countries.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Marketing’s growing data demands of speed, availability, and agility in rapidly changing customer behaviors don’t align with IT’s modus operandi of developing and maintaining hard coded, legacy systems. The CMO and CIO (and potentially the CTO) must bring complete transparency to the process. Bring complete transparency.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

IT is particularly prone to this when trying to force fit everything into a previously acquired hardware or software platform, regardless of its applicability to the problem being addressed. Small, agile cycles of development and risk assessment help to measure goals, evaluate success and easily change execution strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Contemporary organizations may do this process in a more agile and collaborative way, but the expectation is that PMs know best about what customers need and engineering is there to serve. Pro: Engineering can focus on coding without a lot of distraction; this tends to work well for Waterfall development shops with long lifecycles.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

New, more agile , software development tools and testing methods are utilized. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. IT management Information & technology Operations' Requirements and specifications are more flexible and developed within cross functional teams with constantly evolving business needs.

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Planview

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In the latest Mik + One podcast, Dr. Mik Kersten, Chief Technology Officer at Planview, sat down with Dr. Suzette Johnson and Robin Yeman to discuss their groundbreaking work on Industrial DevOps and its potential to revolutionize the development of cyber-physical systems. Who are Dr. Suzette Johnson and Robin Yeman?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In the spirit of becoming more adaptive , organizations have rushed to implement Agile software development. But many have done so in a way that actually makes them less agile. These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity.

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