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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower Innovation

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. The PMs are seeing late deliveries and bugs that suggest the devs just aren’t capable enough. This can be true even if those failures had nothing to do with the current team.

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower Innovation

The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective. At TechEmpower, we’ve conducted more than 50 technical reviews for companies of all sizes, industries, and technical stacks. A technical review can answer that crucial question.

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To Accelerate Growth, Analyze Your Company Like an Investor

Harvard Business Review

Private equity (PE) firms have a proven approach to identify areas for revenue growth, value creation, and cost reduction: due diligence. There’s no reason to limit due diligence to the context of an acquisition. But companies rarely use this same approach in the execution of their own growth strategy.

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Innovation dies at the handover

Idea to Value

The classic example here is an idea developed by a team of “innovation specialists” based on Design Thinking, tested with potential customers to validate demand, and then given to a development team to code and ship. After all, the Design Thinking team can’t code, but they can come up with the concept.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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What Kind of Company is a Good Fit for Crowdsourcing?

IdeaScale

The concepts that started in the ideation program are now being reviewed by the product development team for potential implementation. There are a few Dick’s employees with the word “Innovation” in their title and even more employees that participated in this product innovation campaign.

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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower Innovation

The Tactical Technical Advisor stays on top of the development team to ensure that they’re team is building the right thing in a high-quality, efficient manner. This is especially important with outsourced development teams. Are developers following best practices in their code and life cycle?

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

Sign up now and learn how to: Reexamine what processes your QA & Dev teams already have. Review customer feedback surveys. Join Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant as he discusses how we can educate and equip our QA/QC process to forge champions of customer experience. Revitalize QA as champions.

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How to Optimize the Developer Experience for Monumental Impact

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As an innovative concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry, and emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process.