Planview

MARCH 27, 2025

Step 1: Start With a Small-Scale Pilot The journey began in 2022 when Vanguard initiated a pilot within their Chief Technology Office and IT department, focusing on improving the software developer experience. The teams struggled with excessive context switching and too much WIP, prompting them to optimize flow as a solution.

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Planview

MARCH 15, 2024

These constitute “value streams,” representing a team’s flow of connected work from customer request to product delivery. Any group suffering from the growing pains of scaling software delivery can attest to this value. For example, imagine a team of engineers needs to do a manual review of their performance at the end of every sprint.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 6, 2018

Some excerpts: Work with the development team to follow a user-centered design approach as you work collaboratively to brainstorm and design innovative solutions to complex problems. Work closely with team members to conduct user research, identify pain points, develop user profiles, and create task lists.

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mjvinnovation

JULY 10, 2020

Smaller batches of work are easier to understand, commit, test, and review, as well as know when they are completed. Traditionally, DevOps is understood as a way to break down the barriers between development and operations teams. DevOps shortens the development cycle. Benefits of DevOps for your business.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 26, 2019

In a project where the waterfall Model is used, each such point represents a different stage of software development, and each stage usually ends before the next stage can begin. Requirements are usually reviewed and approved by the customer before the project can be started. There are good and bad things about this approach.

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Acuvate

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

It is a set of practices that automates the process between software development and IT teams. The process involves building, testing and releasing the software faster and more reliably. DevOps aligns effectively with agile principles in order to deliver changes frequently. Continuous Delivery. Why CI and CD ?

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We then reviewed them to see that the answer summaries made sense. This involves reviewing the feedback from the user testing, and making adjustments to the solution based on the insights gathered. This involves presenting the solution to stakeholders, and developing a plan for implementing and refining the solution moving forward.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

As part of this effort, the company decided to use tools to drive high levels of performance on a new project that required both hardware and software components. The project ran successfully for hardware development, and the project management tools worked exactly as expected. But the results were much different on the software side.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Big, successful companies that manage huge projects like highways and dams and office parks have to deal with many more variables than a software development team. Granted, they have fancy project management software to help them stay on top of the schedule. Keep your team informed. It's funny, though.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

It originated in the military as a way to learn quickly in rapidly changing situations and to address mistakes or changes on the field. People participate with a desire to truly understand root causes of their successes and failures so they know what to repeat and what to change. Review four key questions.

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Underperforming Technical Team Tools eBook Development Team Review 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

The CEO personally handed out plaque after plaque — and a few checks — to individuals who set sales records, received patents, and led successful change initiatives. The top executive gave no plaques or discernible praise for any of his company’s top teams or groups. Assess/Analyze. But something was missing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. The bulk of this agile canon will teach your individual teams to deliver higher-quality code, faster. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

In this article we look at three very different organizations – IBM, Rich Products, and Intuit – and the three different paths they have taken in reconfiguring their operations for more customer intimacy, by changing methods, reengineering processes, and transforming culture. The rise of cloud computing changed all this.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

For example, in a previous post I described how Amazon’s ability to continuously release software changes (8000 per day, one every 11 seconds) will crush competitors who are making a batch change every six weeks. It’s cheaper because of automation and because small development teams need less coordination and oversight.

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Product Development Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

The innovation roadmap was hauled out and reviewed less in the spotlight of global opportunities than the cold reflection of domestic politics. Finding innovative ways to change regulations may prove faster, better, and cheaper than innovatively improving products and services. The room went quiet. No one disagreed. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Big, successful companies that manage huge projects like highways and dams and office parks have to deal with many more variables than a software development team. Granted, they have fancy project management software to help them stay on top of the schedule. Keep your team informed. It's funny, though.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

The rapid pace of change in software (e.g., new product releases every day, not every year), has caused an increasing pressure on product development in other areas, and on management in general, to change more continuously as well. In the time it takes Staples to make one new release, Amazon has made 300,000 changes.

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Software Industry Management Disruption 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

And heuristics, or rules of thumb, are also what allow people in all kinds of situations — including fast-changing business environments — to forge ahead rather than being paralyzed by complexity. Now that globalization and the Internet have changed everything, the heuristics are overdue for an update. Work in short cycles.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

Peter Cappelli reviews the evidence to conclude that there are not major shortages of workers with basic reading and math skills or of workers with engineering and technical training; if anything, too many workers may be overeducated. Designers had to keep up with new technologies and new standards that are still changing rapidly.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

In China, however, talking with customers was seen as in imposition on both the developers and the customers, who were considered uninterested and unreliable in articulating product requirements. With these groups, we noticed that management practices that worked well in Germany and the U.S. didn’t fare as well in India.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Based on our experience working with these teams, we recommend senior teams do the following if they want to become more agile: Treat your enterprise priorities as a managed backlog. See your leadership team as an agile Scrum that prioritizes the backlog based on importance, then tackles them in sequence until completed.

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