CorporateIntel

APRIL 1, 2012

Information compounds on our desktops, the team with analysis paralysis most often loses to the nimble risk takers—but all this means is that in product development , the role of Quality Assurance (QA) has never been more critical. ” Believe me, I understand trade-offs.

Software Review 40

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software 40

Boxes and Arrows

MAY 4, 2009

A lot of knowledge at that level resides with the Professional Services team rather than the Product Development team. R&D Wiki This Team Wiki is the home of internal coding standards, design documents, etc. Knowledge capture and dissemination using three Wikis.

Case Study 80

Case Study Study Technical Review Software Review 80

Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2020

That is why we need to adopt new cultures, new methods and tools. By creating new experiences and utilities, by touching on the product, the services, the global experience, Louis Zero breaks the usual silos and makes many departments of a company collaborate in an interdisciplinary way. So now you’re wondering why?

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Underperforming Technical Team Design Training Project 45

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2018

Although his one-on-one meetings with these reports, which involved progress reviews, motivation, and coaching, were highly productive, his monthly team meetings weren’t. Catherine, a senior marketing director leading a cross-functional product development team at the same company, provides a contrasting case study.

Development Team Review 14

Development Team Review Report Groups Meeting 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Xavier’s new role, at least for the next year, was to lead a product development team in Monterrey. He arranged a meeting of his team and set out responsibilities. But what happens when working across cultures, especially when you are managing a team of people from mixed cultural backgrounds?

Culture 14

Culture Technical Review Tips Course 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

In business today, "user experience" (or UX) has come to represent all of the qualities of a product or service that make it relevant or meaningful to an end-user — everything from its look and feel design to how it responds when users interact with it, to the way it fits into people's daily lives.

Strategy 13

Strategy Strategy Product Development LEAN 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

Consistent with these famous case studies, scientific research shows that creativity and innovation can be enhanced by reducing team harmony. Likewise, a review of theoretical and quantitative studies showed that teams are often more creative when they have fewer rather than more resources (for example, time, money, and people).

Creativity 15

Creativity Development Team Review Study Case Study 15

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. They faced a culture clash, however.

Software Review 15

Software Review Design Thinking Software Design 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

From Alison and Dan’s reading list for this episode: HBR: The Three Pillars of a Teaming Culture by Amy Edmondson — “When you join an unfamiliar team or start a challenging new project, self-protection is a natural ins tinct. So it takes conscious work to shift the culture.”

Case Study 14

Case Study Creativity Collaboration Study 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

Most project review meetings, which involved top managers asking challenging questions of project team members, constructively shaped projects for the better. After one such meeting, for example, a team member wrote in his diary, "The project passed start gate today. Find small wins even in setbacks.

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Video Design Technical Review Development Team Review 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Organizations need to be continually on the lookout for new market developments and competitive threats, identifying essential experts and nimbly forming and disbanding teams to help tackle those issues quickly. We also conducted hundreds of interviews with both workers and leaders in these companies. Bridging Select Silos.

Agile 15

Agile Underperforming Technical Team How To Collaboration 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Its early success also highlights the CEO’s critical role in challenging the organization to assess its digital competence and to determine how urgently it needs to respond to threats and opportunities. But taking full advantage of it requires significant cultural changes.

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review Disruption Agile 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

As an approach, lean innovation lends itself especially well to corporate cultures, often engineering ones and others strongly focused on process-improvement programs such as Six Sigma. Its straightforward, step-by-step methodology makes it relatively easy to explain and to implement: Identify the minimal viable product.

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LEAN Learning Product Development Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

If the goal was to leapfrog the competition in every product line while revitalizing U.S. The $1 billion plan envisioned 11 new product platforms in six different manufacturing sites. GE needed to reduce new product development cycles from 3-4 years to 1-1.5 everyone met again to review what they''d done.

Development Team Review 10

Development Team Review LEAN Training Culture 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Processes, organizational cultures, and resources emerge inside companies, creating pressure that runs opposite to the pursuit of innovation. Innovation is the confluence of product development and a business model that can deliver those products to customers at a profit.

Company 15

Company Innovation Product Development Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

Agile 8

Agile Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

Product development teams will need to focus on delivering products as a service to enable real-time service level monitoring. This way, engineers and product designers no longer have to make educated guesses about how their products perform in the field, because they can collect actual performance data instead.

Company 14

Company Internet of things Data Product Development 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

While the focus of many spaces is to create new digital products and services, evidence from broader coworking surveys suggests other roles could benefit from this practice. ” The role of community managers in fostering this culture can’t be overstated. The latter is crucial. Be clear about your goals at the outset.

Company 14

Company Survey Design Report 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

By researching the cultural and physical contexts in which people use your products, you can define better, more precise goals for those products. Security is often approached as an engineering-led effort in which cross-functional teams from research, design, or product are less important.

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Data Tools Design Collaboration 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

It has a more rigorous organization structure that divides responsibilities between the innovation team and development team, and strengthens management around the opportunity pipeline. These teams have disciplined processes to get the technology to market, generally with a one- to two-year product horizon.

Technology 9

Technology Underperforming Technical Team Innovation System 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Processes, organizational cultures, and resources emerge inside companies, creating pressure that runs opposite to the pursuit of innovation. Innovation is the confluence of product development and a business model that can deliver those products to customers at a profit.

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Company Innovation Product Development Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. Both strategies, however, create cultural incompatibility within the organization.

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Report Development Team Review Project Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

As they spread to all its software development teams, Michael Holm, the company’s CEO and cofounder, began to worry that his leadership team was hindering progress. So in 2010, Holm decided to run his nine-member executive group as an agile team. The CEO and his leadership team share a joint table.

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