Planview

JANUARY 15, 2025

What if the principles that transformed software development over the last decade could be the key to successfully implementing AI in your organization? From organizational structure to developer roles, Debois shares insights on why DevOps experience gives teams a unique advantage in navigating the challenges of enterprise AI adoption.

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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. Methodologies like Lean, Six Sigma , and Kaizen provide proven frameworks for process improvement.

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Examples Strategy Strategy LEAN 59

Planview

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It’s common to encounter blind spots when you’re navigating an Agile transformation. They can show up as Agile practices that are meant to improve business agility but are applied so extremely that they end up making organizations less agile. Hyper Focusing on Agile Teams. But it’s not always easy to identify them.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team eBook Project 72

mjvinnovation

MARCH 13, 2019

She is the woman of the moment and can teach you a lot about agile project management! She is the woman of the moment and can teach you a lot about agile project management! In this article, in besides knowing better the Japanese sensation of the present, you will see what lessons she can bring us about agile project management.

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Agile Project Management Tips 64

Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

A software developer practicing "agile" thinks of it as a short, iterative cycle of work, often weeks or months, rather than seconds. An entrepreneur practicing "lean startup" methods thinks of it as minimally viable product development effort of a week or less.

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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. Lean is about stripping away unnecessary assets to focus on doing the most with the least. Most are already lean, but not intentionally.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 18, 2022

I had a conversation recently with a few industry professionals who were expressing concerns about the idea of scaling agile. Their objection was that not everybody can be agile nor needs to be. There’s been this tendency to kind of munge agile together with lean manufacturing and lean startup or lean innovation.

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Boxes and Arrows

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Teams moving to agile often struggle to integrate agile with best practices in user-centered design (UCD) and user experience (UX) in general. Fortunately, using a UX Integration Matrix helps integrate UX and agile by including UX information and requirements right in the product backlog. The feedback loop is broken.

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Open Innovation EU

MARCH 30, 2016

During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions around organization design. Source: www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/when-toyota-met-e-commerce-lean-at-amazon.

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Entrepreneurship LEAN Case Study Agile 70

mjvinnovation

APRIL 5, 2019

SAFe is an agile framework for development that has been gaining a lot of prominence among developers and managers of software projects. SAFe was developed in 2011 to help software development teams put better products on the market faster. Check it out! What is SAFe?

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 3, 2019

The Agile manifesto. In 2001, the “ Manifesto for Agile Software Development”, was published, which gave popularity to the term ‘Agile’ and marked the beginning of the application of light software development methods. Understanding Agile methods. The benefits of the Agile Methodology.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards ( NCARB ), a national non-profit organization, develops standards for licensure and credentialing of architects.

Marketing 65

Marketing LEAN Case Study Innovation 65

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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Management Agile LEAN Guidelines 59

Huub Rutten

MAY 4, 2021

In my daily practices of developing innovation management methods and software I cannot avoid the term anymore: nearly every development methodology or project management methodology uses EPICS as a kind of starting point for a development project. Then Agile appeared on the scene.

Software Review 52

Software Review Agile Software Development Software Developers 52

Huub Rutten

MAY 4, 2021

In my daily practices of developing innovation management methods and software I cannot avoid the term anymore: nearly every development methodology or project management methodology uses EPICS as a kind of starting point for a development project. Then Agile appeared on the scene.

Software Review 52

Software Review Agile Software Development Software Developers 52

Huub Rutten

MAY 4, 2021

In my daily practices of developing innovation management methods and software I cannot avoid the term anymore: nearly every development methodology or project management methodology uses EPICS as a kind of starting point for a development project. Then Agile appeared on the scene.

Software Review 52

Software Review Agile Software Development Software Developers 52

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Here’s how. Build-Measure-Learn.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The software development methodologies and organizational design principles harnessed by digital natives are well documented. In this study covering thousands of value streams under management, we baselined the capacity of enterprise organizations’ value streams by measuring the flow of value through software development tools (e.g.,

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Artificial Inteligence Data Roadmap Agile 72

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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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies? What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? How can design thinking help with product development? What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies? What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX?

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

It’s interesting to reflect that in 1997, the Agile Manifesto had not yet been published. I had never heard of Agile. Agile and Human-Centered Design The Agile Manifesto of 2001 was a game-changer in product development. Agile recognizes that a software product is never “done.” We were Waterfall.

Management 52

Management Agile Software LEAN 52

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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Culture Innovation Software Engineering Culture of Innovation 64

mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The Economy is Digital; companies are born small, lean, lighter, and more innovative. Bonus 2: Agile Software Development. Digital Development: Agile + DT + Software Development. The DT + Agile union is the pillar of our software development process. Startup-up.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Inteligence Software Review Agile 40

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. They keep customers happier.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 2, 2024

Cyclical and Iterative Models Cyclical and iterative models, such as the Agile or Lean methodologies, focus on continuous improvement through repeated cycles. This approach is particularly valuable in fast-paced industries like software development, where rapid changes and updates are necessary to stay competitive.

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Innovation Processes Innovation Innovation Management Disruption 52

Technology Created

DECEMBER 23, 2015

As a father, I can tell my daughter many facts about riding a bike: put your foot on the forward pedal to start, look straight ahead, lean into the turn, steer to keep your balance. Lean into the turn? But just knowing these facts does not a bike rider make! But knowing and doing are two different things. I’ll certainly crash!”

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Innovation LEAN Course Brainstorming 40

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

We are all lean now — or soon will be. As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making.

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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.

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Agile LEAN Innovation Software Development 16

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. Competing in the Future. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Software development is a frenzied decathlon of activity, constantly pressed on all sides by resource constraints, budgets and deadlines. When transitioning from waterfall to agile development, the design team brings these preconceptions with it. Successful agile teams focus on problem statements.

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Agile Software Development Software Developers Design 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Nearly every software development project starts with one question: How much is this going to cost? A note here on Minimum Viable Products (MVP): If you are using a Lean Startup approach to building your software and are building an MVP, have two options. How many stories can we get into this next sprint?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

Many companies still compete this way and there continue to be successors to Taylorism, including business process reengineering and lean production. Some companies brought together Six Sigma and lean production into “Lean Six Sigma” as a way of competing with both lower costs and higher quality.

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Company LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Competition 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The key to this approach is the agile team. Agile — whose varieties include scrum, lean development, and kanban — is a systematic methodology of innovation that has long been popular in software development. So he turned to colleagues there for inspiration, and they described the agile approach.

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Technical Review Agile Software Review Project 12

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. Disclosure: He’s taught and coached many teams at HBR on how to use these same practices.)

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

Answer: Cross-functional collaboration using "Agile Scrum.". As I described in a previous post, ING''s IT organization has been transitioning from the traditional development approach of (1) define functional requirements, then (2) design, then (3) build (the " waterfall " approach) to making quick, small changes to systems (" Agile Scrum ").

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Marketing Agile Software Development Software Developers 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Where our clients struggle and where we see challenges is not in the area of new product development. Standard agile approaches like Scrum and SAFe work pretty well for that. In the past couple of years, IBM Global Technology Services undertook its own agile transformation. We kept our team very lean but highly expert.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Many software developers at GE were concerned about reliability and security, which led some of them to resist moving some of the capabilities to the “cloud.” Streamlining a process with Lean Six Sigma fits this mental model: you focus your product development on making things perfect before releasing them to the market.

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