Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Beyond internal gains, process improvement also allows organizations to respond more effectively to customer needs and market changes, giving them an edge over less agile competitors. These tools help organizations build systems that are more agile, efficient, and responsive to change.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 5, 2020

In this article, you will see what exactly agile coach does, what benefits it can bring and how to take it to your company. What an Agile Coach does within an Agile team. Agile Coach helps train corporate teams in agile methodology and oversees team development to ensure effective results.

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Planview

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For years, 100 percent of its software development was outsourced. With the right combination of visionary leadership, an engaged team and a determination to do things properly—plus timing and opportunity—Kroger’s small team scored an influential early win with Project Jigsaw.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In years past, many businesses have succeeded with an agile, reactive approach to business where they respond to climate, competition, and social circumstances in an “after the fact” way. As many businesses have perfected this approach, a new leadership model is now needed to stay ahead of the competition. How do you do this, though?

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The era of the “data economy” is well and truly upon us, meaning that companies must be more agile than ever before. The recent leaps forward in software development, computing and consumer electronics have led industry titans to classify the current time period as one of the most innovative on record. Why tech companies?

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 8, 2019

Agile Design Tip 1—Clear Goals Supported by Design Research. In Some Thoughts on Design Research, Agile, and Traps Charles Lambdin stresses the importance of clearly defined goals. Design Innovative software” is not a concrete goal; it’s a vague directive. Agile Design Tip 2—Leading with UX Design.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Companies seeking to cope with the pace of accelerating change are looking for ways to go faster, and managers in non-technical disciplines have become increasingly infatuated with the Agile Software Development methodology and many are finding ways to adapt parts of it to create agile change or agile marketing or other such things.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 13, 2016

This slight rant of mine was started when I saw a new software application talk about its ability to help its clients in agile lean innovation. This is where terms like "agile" or "lean" can come into play. Coming soon to a bookstore near you. This is of course a combination of process, type, outcome and degree.

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 31, 2021

The strain was especially felt with software development projects, which were becoming a major investment area for organizations. In 2001, the Agile movement suggested a new way of approaching that work more efficiently. The digital revolution has decimated entire industries and forced wholesale transformations.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

It is not their fault, this is just what several hundred years of management education has ingrained in leadership thinking. This is why Agile is becoming so popular for teams which need to rapidly iterate, such as in software-development or design teams. Want to learn more? Let me show you exactly how L.I.V.E.

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Planview

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Carey and I had a fascinating discussion on the problems with silos in software development, and I appreciated her interest in discussing the state of the art in academia on the topic. We held a mutual view on how collaboration and tooling are needed to span the end-to-end software lifecycle. Fast forward to 2016.

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Planview

AUGUST 3, 2022

There are three basic types of business transformation: Agile, digital, and organizational. Agile Transformation Creates Flexibility. Agile transformation reaches beyond Agile software development practices to include transitioning an entire organization to nimble practices and mindsets.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Like a superhero created when the contents of two beakers accidentally combine, a powerful hybrid has emerged in the software development world: the user champion. In this origin story, the beakers would be labeled “agile” and “user experience (UX)” because the user champion borrows some of the best ideas from both disciplines.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 29, 2021

It’s a management format that draws from the same source as Lean and Agile. refers to the third generation of project management models, considered more suited to current business requirements in the context of Digital Transformation – toting more agile, lean, and modern management values. to work so well in agile.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards ( NCARB ), a national non-profit organization, develops standards for licensure and credentialing of architects. Software developers focus only on features that have been tested through experiments – gaining extra time for projects like creating landing pages for marketing campaigns.

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Planview

APRIL 6, 2023

This debunks the perspective that business agility and successful transformation are limited to companies of a certain profile. I am not just referencing improvements via Agile and DevOps, although they are a piece of the puzzle. How Do You Appreciate the Value of Business Agility? I saw customers experience outstanding success.

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Cris Beswick

MAY 1, 2024

Decades later, the form-follows-function paradigm became deeply embedded across industrial design, software development, and systems engineering disciplines. For example, a traditional industrial manufacturer leveraging emerging digital technologies might establish a new software engineering arm.

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Technology Created

AUGUST 24, 2014

But one of the best things about the coach was his leadership, something sorely missing in today’s consensus-driven culture. And his leadership began every year the same way in the first moment the team was together. Everyone, this is the agile process”. Guys and gals, this is a smart phone”. Team, this is the Internet”.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Addressing this disparity is essential as business leaders navigate a landscape where the implications of tech debt are interwoven within the fabric of their broader responsibilities, fostering informed decision-making and cohesive collaboration between leadership and the IT domain.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 24, 2020

Leadership that acts as if it were in a traditional work environment is very demotivating for remote teams. Leadership that demands results but does not provide the proper systems, applications, and equipment necessary to carry out activities tends to see its team unengaged and even boycott strategic planning.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. They allow a company to be more agile and to more effectively adapt to digital disruption.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

How could developing a fail fast culture help organizations unfreeze, survive, flow and flourish with the current levels of fear, ambiguity, uncertainty, volatility and instability in 21 st century organizations? What does fail fast mean in its original context? Because “Failure is always a demoralizing and upsetting experience”.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 19, 2018

That starts by working outward from a thorough assessment of your organization’s aspiration and abilities, including an investigation of your company culture, leadership styles, and potential capabilities. Even the most powerful innovations can flounder if they don’t have the full support of company leadership.

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Innovation 360

JUNE 20, 2018

That starts by working outward from a thorough assessment of your organization’s aspiration and abilities, including an investigation of your company culture, leadership styles, and potential capabilities. Even the most powerful innovations can flounder if they don’t have the full support of company leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

David Bogaerts and Jael Schuyer are process improvement experts (" Lean Master Black Belts " and "Agile coaches") in the IT and operations group at ING , a leading bank based in the Netherlands. Building on their team successes, they created an "Agility capture team" of senior IT leaders to address larger issues. How are they doing it?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results.

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Technology Created

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Most companies have a well-rehearsed list of the attributes of successful innovation: brainstorm, think outside the box, fail fast, be agile, follow a lean startup approach, build a minimum viable product, ready fire aim, pivot, etc.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The better question and concern is, where was the leadership and oversight helping to assure Obamacare’s implementation success? The underlying truth for virtually every large system’s implementation initiative is that success demands leadership and oversight that holds itself accountable for assuring best practice.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

A second accelerant of IT delivery is the iterative software development philosophy known as "agile development." While the definition of agile is still very broad, at the core are values of flexibility, individual interaction, focus on outputs, and collaboration over more rigid planning-driven approaches.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Companies were split into divisions, each with their own leadership. Instead of making the leap to an entirely new form of organization — a radical change not without its pitfalls — perhaps we should think more seriously about the problem of agility itself. Frank and honest leadership is usually enough.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

More and more companies are adopting software and product development frameworks like Agile , Scrum , and Kanban — which promote quick, iterative, lean production — to deliver higher quality products, faster. Leadership & Managing People Book. Further Reading. Getting Work Done (20-Minute Manager Series).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? General Electric turns out to be an excellent case in point.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Or take Salesforce.com and its willingness to have self-organizing development teams continuously tweaking code, even though, with a global system serving more than two million subscribers, the risks of introducing errors into its 30 million lines of code would seem to present compelling reasons not to. Keep your gaze on the customers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. Leadership roles and responsibilities. It’s a framework for entrepreneurs, building on “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Finally, because of the size, importance and structure of the bank, the project would require not just the support of the BTFG function that reported to Shuttleworth, but the leadership team of BTFG (of which he was a member), the executive team of parent Westpac, and the board of directors of Westpac.

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