Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

It is particularly useful for product development, market expansion, pricing strategies, and overall business positioning. For instance, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company can use Competitive Analysis to determine why customers prefer a competitors platform and adjust its own offerings accordingly.

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eZassi

MARCH 18, 2025

The Ezassi Advantage: Enhancing Supply Chain Agility for Procurement Executives Why CPOs and Supply Chain Executives Should Pay Attention For Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs), procurement leaders, and supply chain executives, staying ahead of disruptions while driving efficiency, cost savings, and sustainability is more challenging than ever.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

Unfortunately, the enthusiasm I had for my new job waned after six months when an executive was appointed Head of Product Development—who insisted he knew SCRUM 1 better than anybody. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. Where did Agile come from?

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 10, 2025

Developed by Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan , Discovery-Driven Planning is ideal for: New product development. Test Assumptions Through Small-Scale Experiments Rather than launching a full-scale product immediately, test hypotheses in a controlled environment. Iterative product adjustments. Market entry strategies.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. I first encountered Agile Development in 2005, when a team I supported was chosen to help pilot Scrum development methodology at Yahoo!

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Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

Finally, well look at how idea management software helps organizations structure and scale their crowdsourcing initiatives for maximum impact. By breaking down barriers to participation, crowdsourcing helps organizations tap into a wealth of collective intelligence while driving faster and more agile innovation. What Is Crowdsourcing?

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 31, 2025

Strategies for Reverse Innovation To successfully implement reverse innovation, companies need a strategic approach that prioritizes understanding local needs, embracing frugality, leveraging local expertise, and maintaining agility. Agility ensures the final solution resonates with the target audience.

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Planview

MARCH 18, 2022

For this month’s blog spotlight , we are going to travel to Bangalore and follow Geetika to spend a day in the life of a Software Development Engineer Test manager. Here is what Geetika had to say: Explain your role as a Software Development Engineer Test Manager and a few of your responsibilities.

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Planview

JANUARY 22, 2024

The trends outlined in this blog offer a glimpse into the future of product development and some exciting opportunities for product-driven companies to achieve real ROI regarding cost savings, efficiency, productivity, digital transformation benefits, and employee satisfaction.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Startups often bring fresh ideas, new technologies, and agile development approaches, but identifying the right ones to collaborate with or invest in can be complex. Leverage Technology Scouting Software like Q-scout Technology scouting software like Q-scout can be instrumental in managing the complexities of startup scouting.

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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. These tools help organizations build systems that are more agile, efficient, and responsive to change.

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etventure

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In this article, etventure’s Head of Product Gregor Ilg will take a closer look at the buzzword “Agile” – and de-mystify Agile in a business context. We love Agile at etventure – but we also understand it can create stress and confusion. What is Agile? Before Agile. The Agile Ethos.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 8, 2024

As a highly credentialed coach to many global Agile and SCRUM leaders in major international and local organisations, I enrolled in an agile coach certification program and enthusiastically attended all daily sessions. How do they go about humanising agility?

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

Although I was attending as a sponsor/exhibitor for Indigo Studio, I did manage to break away to go to the “There’s more than one way to skin a cat: Integrating UX into an Agile environment” session. He used the term “developer” as if it were an epithet, and unsurprisingly, a lot of the audience cheered him on. Book Reviews lean'

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

From linear to agile: Idea generation is now a continuous process, not a one-time event. Organizations are using agile methodologies to rapidly test and iterate on ideas, keeping up with the pace of change and market demands. This openness is driving innovation by bringing in fresh perspectives and new ways of thinking.

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. Addressing Agile-Stage-Gate PPM Implementation Challenges Resource Allocation, Capacity, Planning Best Practices.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Successfully navigating this landscape requires a precise balance between maintaining a clear focus on overarching visions and executing meticulously throughout the product development lifecycle. Example of How to Integrate Agile Work Management Solutions Consider a product team at a mid-sized tech company.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Scenario: A technology company is creating a consumer electronics solution that involves hardware, software and web components. Each platform has its own development team, its own Program Manager and its own Project Manager. Three separate teams, located in different parts of the company’s facility, create three platforms.

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Planview

JULY 29, 2024

Conversely, if you’re relying on inflexible project portfolio management software that restricts the way teams work, you could fall short of reaching those goals. Don’t Let Complexities Hold You Back Most organizations need the capabilities that traditional project portfolio management software provides, but that’s not always enough.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 3, 2023

The most significant activities for investing in innovation management software are presently for events, challenges and campaigns, idea assessments, especially at the early stage, and product development filters. Is that really the sum of innovation?

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Planview

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A product strategy needs to include innovation and investing in new technologies. Adopting the approach involves several elements, such as breaking down departmental barriers, establishing cross-functional teams, and creating feedback loops that connect customer insights to product development and service delivery.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By integrating practices like the lean startup methodology and agile product development into your product development life cycle , you can position your business to pivot quickly and effectively when disruptive opportunities arise.

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Huub Rutten

APRIL 6, 2021

Andrew is a senior Director System Engineering in a big manufacturing company: “You should understand Huub, Agile gives a lot of freedom to the development teams. In pure software companies that is fine, but not in our company, where hardware is the major part. First, we don’t know where the development teams will end up.

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Huub Rutten

APRIL 6, 2021

Andrew is a senior Director System Engineering in a big manufacturing company: “You should understand Huub, Agile gives a lot of freedom to the development teams. In pure software companies that is fine, but not in our company, where hardware is the major part. First, we don’t know where the development teams will end up.

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Huub Rutten

APRIL 6, 2021

Andrew is a senior Director System Engineering in a big manufacturing company: “You should understand Huub, Agile gives a lot of freedom to the development teams. In pure software companies that is fine, but not in our company, where hardware is the major part. First, we don’t know where the development teams will end up.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 30, 2018

The question isn't even: should we become more agile or more nimble? The answer to that one is "yes" as well, and (shameless plug) I wrote a book about how to become more nimble, agile and innovative. Look at just one of my favorite data nuggets: how long it took specific products or technologies to reach 50M users.

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eZassi

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Transformative Power of 3D Modeling Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) : Accelerating Product Innovation The CPG Industry is embracing 3D modeling to enhance product development, streamline packaging design, and drive sustainability efforts.

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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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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. Reviews, social media, mobile devices and so on mean that the quantity of information customers have on products, services, support issues, and ethical behavior makes them agile than the companies who serve them.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

However, recently there have been a number of startups providing a software solution to enable companies to set up innovation challenges, have thousands of people submit their ideas, and then evaluate and manage these ideas in a more structured way. Office workers hire word-processing software to create documents.

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Boxes and Arrows

JUNE 29, 2009

The documentation needs are often based on the size of the project, launch date, team dynamics, audience, technology, and the product development process. Description of the Problem There are many product development processes and one that has garnered much attention is agile.

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InnovationManagement

MARCH 11, 2020

For the manufacturer undertaking new-product development, Digital Transformation means smart new products with embedded software.

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Planview

JUNE 17, 2024

Operating at the Speed of Innovation When looking at an SPM solution, look beyond your existing software capabilities and think about what your organization wants to achieve in the future. That’s why we’re excited to share this list of essential considerations for your organization when selecting an SPM platform.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

It allows us to deliver the resilience and agility that these interesting times demand…architecting your business for real-time adaptability and resilience in the face of uncertainty”. It allows us to deliver the resilience and agility that these interesting times demand.”

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Dear reader, let me share with you a conversation I had with the Chief Engineer Digitization & Software Development of a large company that produces complex electronic devices with many software elements in and around them. For him electronics and software development is second nature, and he is savvy about physics.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Dear reader, let me share with you a conversation I had with the Chief Engineer Digitization & Software Development of a large company that produces complex electronic devices with many software elements in and around them. For him electronics and software development is second nature, and he is savvy about physics.

Software Review 52

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Dear reader, let me share with you a conversation I had with the Chief Engineer Digitization & Software Development of a large company that produces complex electronic devices with many software elements in and around them. For him electronics and software development is second nature, and he is savvy about physics.

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