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Calculating the Six Hidden Costs of Waste in Software Development 

Planview

Nothing frustrates software developers more than working hard on something that never ends up providing value. Whether because of changing priorities, miscommunication among teams, or other blockers, the hidden cost of waste can significantly impact productivity and bottom lines.

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

Planview

With all the open-source code and available context across the internet, AI models can generate software code and help software developers debug their work. This rapid advancement in genAI has disrupted many fields across both enterprise and consumer environments.

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People Are Irrational, But Teams Don't Have to Be

Harvard Business Review

As part of this effort, the company decided to use tools to drive high levels of performance on a new project that required both hardware and software components. The project ran successfully for hardware development, and the project management tools worked exactly as expected. But the results were much different on the software side.

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When Do Regulators Become More Important than Customers?

Harvard Business Review

The innovation roadmap was hauled out and reviewed less in the spotlight of global opportunities than the cold reflection of domestic politics. State satisfaction mattered more than market disruption. Twenty-first century market competition in disruptive business environments quickly becomes regulatory lawfare. No one disagreed.

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Meetings That Work for Both Managers and Makers

Harvard Business Review

” Makers, also known as individual contributors, are the software developers, engineers, architects, writers, and researchers who produce knowledge. ” Managers must ensure that customer feedback is incorporated into the production timeline and that their teams are addressing key issues in a timely fashion.

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How the Software Industry Redefines Product Management

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, software is emerging as the proving ground for the future of management practices, the way auto manufacturing used to be the proving ground for new management practices (think of the Toyota Production System ). Multi-function teams build software enhancements that are rolled up into “releases” which are deployed every six weeks.