CorporateIntel

APRIL 1, 2012

Innovation is always factored by the ticking click, who gets the jump and the competitive advantage, when a cost center becomes a profit center. I have often heard the mantra from development teams: “Better, Faster, Cheaper—we can give you any two and a half.” ” Believe me, I understand trade-offs.

Software Review 40

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

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. In fact, the software-development effort began to run late from the beginning and never caught up. But they didn't for the software-development team.

Software Review 16

Software Review Software Development Software Developers Development Team Review 16

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. Twenty-first century market competition in disruptive business environments quickly becomes regulatory lawfare. Strategic success required pleasing Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin.

Development Team Review 13

Development Team Review Software Review Disruption Roadmap 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

We have shifted from a competitive landscape in which companies are more exclusively focused on external forces affecting their industries and sectors, to one that has become significantly more customer-centric. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers.

Software Review 15

Software Review Design Thinking Software Design 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

It’s cheaper because of automation and because small development teams need less coordination and oversight. Continuous integration and automated testing is important for all modern, large scale software development. In some cases, they can go from an idea to a software release in 48 hours. Not necessarily.

Product Development 9

Product Development Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

Around three-quarters of executives in the survey, sponsored by CA Technologies, said that it can play a crucial role in delivering the right products and services, accelerating decision-making and speed to market, while also improving the customer experience and staying ahead of the competition.

Agile 9

Agile Survey Technology Company 9

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. Work in short cycles.

Management 12

Management Underperforming Technical Team Agile Software Development 12

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. And they can be a source of competitive advantage. didn’t fare as well in India.

Culture 14

Culture Collaboration Software Development Software Developers 14

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. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005. Systematic Inc.,

Agile 8

Agile Underperforming Technical Team How To Leadership 8

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. We see it in the high pay that software developers in Silicon Valley receive for their specialized skills.

Technical Review 11

Technical Review Software Review Design Policies 11