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. Heres how they did itand the key lessons for scaling flow successfully.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

Or think of Nathan Myhrvold, the former Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft, who said (and then confirmed to me in person for this article), "The top software developers are more productive than average software developers not by a factor of 10x or 100x or even 1,000x, but by 10,000x."

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Planning Poker is predominantly used by software developers, but it can facilitate virtually any business decision. This mode of conflict resolution is akin to the “blameless postmortem” approach much of the technology world takes to understand why products and endeavors don’t reach their full potential.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. In other words, IT must become a business-driven, front-office function.

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hackerearth

JULY 14, 2021

The lessons you gain, both in software development, entrepreneurship, and in working as a team will pay dividends down the road. You will want to put on your creative developer hats and consider what could X industry benefit from ABC partners’ technology or what use-case could I implement ABC partners’ technology for?

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Planview

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In the latest Mik + One podcast, Dr. Mik Kersten, Chief Technology Officer at Planview, sat down with Dr. Suzette Johnson and Robin Yeman to discuss their groundbreaking work on Industrial DevOps and its potential to revolutionize the development of cyber-physical systems.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In the spirit of becoming more adaptive , organizations have rushed to implement Agile software development. Agile software development. Frameworks for adaptive software development like Agile, have been around for a long time, and have manifested in many forms.

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