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How VSM Software Addresses Everyday Portfolio and Engineering Challenges 

Planview

Value Stream Management (VSM) is crucial in software development as it provides a comprehensive view of the entire workflow, from ideation to delivery. This visibility is necessary to manage the productivity of development teams and ensure that software is delivered on time, on schedule and on budget.

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

Planview

Encouraged teams to signal blockages and impediments in their workflow. Developed training programs to reinforce agile and flow principles. Launched flow reviews, where teams presented their flow analytics and improvement experiments to leadership. Introduced explicit classification for work types to improve tracking.

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Maximizing Efficiency & Productivity: 3 Ways GenAI Optimizes Value Stream Management for Tech Leaders 

Planview

With the expectation that VSM can enable teams to identify their weakest points, genAI can elevate software development cycles by automating repetitive tasks and providing actionable suggestions on how a team can produce optimized customer value. Watch the demo and join Planview’s Early Access program to learn more.

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The Case for Starting a Design Revolution

Harvard Business Review

No enterprise design initiative wastes more time, more effort, more money — while squandering goodwill — than the quest for requirements.

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Scaling Your UX Strategy

Harvard Business Review

But even as big business looks to bring UX and design talent in-house, few companies are willing to embed designers on every product development team (and, frankly, there is not enough talent to go around even if they wanted to). It also provides the executive leadership with a steady stream of "demos" to show off at CES.

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Innovating the Toyota, and YouTube, Way

Harvard Business Review

For one marketing services firm, it meant being exposed to their biggest client's development teams and sitting through technical tests and focus groups to better appreciate and understand how its products were actually designed and built.

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Deciding to Fix or Kill a Problem Product

Harvard Business Review

They’ve seen a visualization, listened to a PowerPoint presentation, watched a highly controlled demo. And the engineers and developers working on the product are too close to it or have a much higher tolerance for complexity than the customer will. Fix or kill? Fix or kill? Fix: This is a process fix, a mindset fix.