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Don’t Miss These 7 Sessions From the Project to Product Summit

Planview

Verizon leaders shared how the Consumer Group of Verizon has dedicated itself to a multi-year journey to embrace agile methodologies and a product and platform-driven model at scale, along with strategy advice, challenges to overcome, and tangible steps you can take.

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How Vanguard, Verizon, and Spotify Apply a Product Operating Model at Scale

Planview

Each company achieved significant business improvements: Vanguard increased its technology change rate five-fold while reducing major incidents by 75%. Verizon scaled agile methodologies and a product-driven model across their entire Consumer Group. Spotify maintained consistent product success for over a decade.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower Innovation

The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation. Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Targets Are you developing a native app and/or a web app?

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Scaling Flow at Vanguard: A Journey from Pilot to Enterprise Transformation

Planview

At the 2024 Project to Product Summit, Sue Schweitzer, Senior Flow Advisor at The Vanguard Group, shared how Vanguard scaled flow across 750+ IT teams, transforming their way of working. There was initial resistance to measuring the full software development lifecycle beyond engineering cycle time.

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How Self-Managed Teams Can Resolve Conflict

Harvard Business Review

To create this culture of open communication, try turning conflict resolution into an organized group activity. Planning Poker is predominantly used by software developers, but it can facilitate virtually any business decision. Autonomous teams should win and lose as a group. Prioritize accountability over blame.

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How I Hired an Entirely Remote Workforce

Harvard Business Review

Many people are stunned to learn that I didn’t meet my chief technology officer in person until 2014 — three years after he started working for me. As the CEO and founder of a remote-based software development company, I’ve learned that remote work creates better employees.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. In the past, IBM mostly provided enterprise software to customers who installed it on their own computers.