Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I had worked with SCRUM before, done training with Ken Schwaber (author 1 and co-founder of the Agile Alliance) and knew a few things from experience about how to achieve some success integrating a design team within SCRUM. Where did Agile come from? Agile can be thought of as a risk-management strategy.

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Qmarkets

JULY 12, 2024

Agile innovation is transforming how companies develop new products and services, fostering a culture of flexibility, speed, and customer-centricity. As the business world becomes increasingly competitive, understanding and implementing agile innovation can be the key to staying ahead. What is Agile Innovation?

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Creative thinking exercises enable you to move away from these solutions and find new ones that meet the specific needs of your project. Brainwriting, or agile solution building , is a collaboration exercise that engages the entire team with each other’s ideas and allows everyone to insert their unique perspective into the mix.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

It involves breaking down complex systems, processes, or strategies into smaller, independent components that can be assembled, reconfigured, and combined in various ways to meet specific business needs. By adopting a composable approach, organizations can achieve greater agility, adaptability, and scalability in their innovation efforts.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

We need to create a digital transformation strategy, a clear roadmap and build the business case as it is going to be, well, umm…… transformational. It is not like downloading one app, playing around with it, assessing its value and dispensing with it if it does not meet our need.

Technical Review 100

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

We need to be more agile, iterative , to be encouraged to be extracting, experimenting and exploring. As you move towards solutions that meet their known needs or help you to “reveal” the unknowns that come out of understanding new value propositions from the ‘data and insights’ flowing in.

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Planview

JUNE 17, 2024

A strong SPM platform has a clear future roadmap and is proactive in adapting to current market demands and delivering on innovation. The last thing anyone wants to invest in is an inflexible technology roadmap that isn’t evolving at the speed of business.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

A positive organizational culture can lead to improved employee engagement, higher levels of innovation, increased agility, and better adaptability to change. Furthermore, in the rapidly changing business landscape, the agility and resilience provided by a strong culture are invaluable.

Culture 100

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Moreover, in today’s fast-paced business environment, agility and resilience are essential for long-term success. To learn how to leverage organizational culture for greater business agility and resilience, see leverage organizational culture for greater business agility and resilience.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Your strategic thinking allows you to create a roadmap to reach these new horizons. Creating an Innovation Roadmap To drive growth and foster a sustainable competitive advantage, it’s imperative to formulate a clear innovation roadmap. Vision and Strategic Thinking Innovative leaders are visionary.

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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. Acronym of Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe is an agile development framework that provides a simple and lightweight experience for the team as it is divided into three segments: Time, Program, and Portfolio.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, a prototype is worth 1,000 meetings.” — saying at Ideo. One team I’ve worked with helps bridge this gap on strategic projects by maintaining an “experience roadmap.”

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Strategic Agility: AI’s predictive analytics can help you anticipate market changes and quickly adapt your strategy, ensuring your business remains agile and resilient. Integration Plan : Develop a roadmap for integrating AI into existing systems.

Artificial Inteligence 100

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Planview customers have access to this data thanks to our industry-leading portfolio, enterprise agile, and value stream management offerings. I bring up Planview, which has Roadmaps, Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), and Flow Metrics tailored to exactly what I am interested in. Now we see the magic happen.

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etventure

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When you join a roadmap meeting and you hear people talking about the “MVP”, you better make sure they are actually talking basketball before you throw in your favorite Michael Jordan story. The Challenges of Waterfall vs. Agile: Many companies have a careful method of product development – that is deeply embedded in their culture.

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Roadmap Product Development Agile Leadership 72

CMOE

JULY 23, 2021

With a clear strategy in place, leaders are better able to meet short-term expectations and manage pressures and decisions in a way that aligns with and sustains the company’s overarching mission and vision. Strategy Promotes Strategic Agility. A well-defined strategy is important— but strategic agility is even more important.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

One supporter collaboration that has come out of our community is the Agile Uprising which looks to build a community around the agile mindset and includes four Happy Melly members as founders. One run by Agile Coach and Supporter Josh Briggs. One area where we see truly visible collaboration is among our Funders.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

The customer today feels a growing empowerment, in choice in personalization, in knowing the products or service they are buying are meeting their needs and these are becoming increasingly intelligent to meet these needs. Moving closer to our innovation need we can see digital transformation everywhere, it is actually all around us.

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Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 133

Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By recognizing the transformative impact of AI, you can ensure your business remains agile and innovative. Implementation Develop AI Roadmap Create a timeline for AI adoption across departments. Remember, the journey towards AI adoption is continuous; stay informed and agile to maintain your competitive edge.

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Planview

MARCH 28, 2024

Unlike traditional manufacturing processes characterized by tangible endpoints, software development for vehicles is inherently iterative and demands agility to keep pace with evolving technological requirements. This confluence of factors impedes their agility and responsiveness.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 6, 2022

We are or need to be, in search of a sustainable future where we can constantly build upon innovation capabilities, capacities and competencies that can be refreshed, strengthened and sometimes reduced to meet the circumstances. Plotting out the roadmap for innovations evolution. The scale of innovation impact desired.

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Technical Review Innovation Collaboration Roadmap 114

Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Clear objectives act as a roadmap, guiding the team’s efforts and helping to measure success. Here are key actions to encourage openness and transparency: Hold regular team meetings to share updates and progress. Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART).

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This agility can be the difference between leading the pack or falling behind. By doing so, you create a roadmap that guides your team towards innovation objectives. You should: Facilitate regular interdisciplinary meetings to share insights and challenges.

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Planview

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In doing research for Project to Product I found myself having very similar discussions with analysts about expanding the benefits of Agile and DevOps to the operating model of a digital business. In the decade following, I was amazed to witness how ALM went on to shape the tool landscape around software development. Fast forward to 2016.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

The customer today feels a growing empowerment, in choice in personalization, in knowing the products or service they are buying are meeting their needs and these are becoming increasingly intelligent to meet these needs. Moving closer to our innovation need we can see digital transformation everywhere, it is actually all around us.

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Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 120

PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

52% of projects veer off course —either going over budget, missing deadlines, or not meeting the set expectations. By embracing ISO 56001, PMOs are not only transcending agility but also professionalizing innovation. And, 19% crash land —either abandoned halfway or completed but left unused. That’s concerning. And it gets worse!

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Management Project Resources 97

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 12, 2021

Leverage the innate agility. A Fractional CINO addresses these missing skill sets: The MisFortune 10,000 Tend to Lack These Innovation Skills: Process and Innovation Project Management Skills — including: team building, culture leadership, innovation project roadmapping, and more. Here’s why.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We’ve learned from the collapse of Kodak, Blockbuster, RadioShack and other once-prominent organizations that a corporate culture designed to uphold and manage existing success can actually become the arch nemesis of an enterprise that needs to be agile in order to evolve to meet the needs of quickly changing global markets.

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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 and Human-Centered Design The Agile Manifesto of 2001 was a game-changer in product development.

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PlanBox Innovation

JUNE 27, 2023

Innovators must be agile and adaptive, ready to pivot and make adjustments as needed to stay on course towards their innovation goals. Action Plan: Plan, implement, and control your innovation initiatives, processes, structures, and support; manage each innovation initiative and configure innovation processes to suit each initiative.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Personalization : AI can tailor strategies to meet the unique needs of individual customers or market segments. By harnessing these AI capabilities, you can ensure that your products not only meet current market demands but also anticipate future trends. This translates into more agile and adaptive strategic planning.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Organizations constantly search for Agility and Flexibility: A marketplace approach allows for agile evolution. This user-centric approach aligns well with the concept of ecosystem adoption driven by meeting user needs. Increasing scope for a total addressable market.

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Leanstack

OCTOBER 1, 2015

If you come from a software or design background, you have most likely been exposed to the scrum/agile methodology. While LEAN sprints are heavily influenced by agile and scrum (and more recently by Google Venture’s Design Sprints), there are some key differences. The cycle then repeats with the next sprint.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We’ve learned from the collapse of Kodak, Blockbuster, RadioShack and other once-prominent organizations that a corporate culture designed to uphold and manage existing success can actually become the arch nemesis of an enterprise that needs to be agile in order to evolve to meet the needs of quickly changing global markets.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture Disruption 72

Planview

MAY 3, 2023

Key Transformation Challenges Picture this: You’re in a meeting to address challenges across the PMO and certain issues keep being raised. You’ve implemented agile ways of working at a team level, but as an enterprise, you’re still slow to market and are having trouble reacting to changes.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

These goals should be aligned with the larger vision of your organization and serve as a roadmap for your innovation journey. This could be through an “Innovator of the Month” spotlight, feature articles on your company’s internal platforms, or even shout-outs in team meetings.

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Culture of Innovation Culture Innovation Training 100

Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Creating an innovation roadmap that outlines short-term and long-term initiatives. Here’s what an innovation keynote speaker might share about bringing these strategies to life in your business: Aligning innovation with strategic business goals to ensure it contributes to overall growth.

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