Planview

MARCH 27, 2025

At the 2024 Project to Product Summit, Sue Schweitzer, Senior Flow Advisor at The Vanguard Group, shared how Vanguard scaled flow across 750+ IT teams, transforming their way of working. The teams struggled with excessive context switching and too much WIP, prompting them to optimize flow as a solution.

CTO 52

CTO Software Review Technical Review Software Developers 52

Idea Champions

APRIL 13, 2024

Do the participants have to be an intact team, or part of an intact team, or can any four people in our organization participate? Participants do not need to be an intact team. They can be an ad hoc group from your organization who have been invited to explore a new challenge, goal, or opportunity. Let's talk.

Technical Review 26

Technical Review Development Team Review Ideation Brainstorming 26

The Human Factor

JULY 27, 2022

Whatever industrial sector your startup works in, there’s a good likelihood that technology has to be integrated firmly in your fundamental business strategy. All companies are now fundamentally tech companies, and employing software engineers is now a crucial task that greatly affects a startup’s long-term performance.

Software Review 36

Software Review Software Developers Software Development Guidelines 36

mjvinnovation

MAY 29, 2019

The framework is built on well-defined pillars and roles: customers become part of the development team and can validate or redefine deliveries. Answers for the business; Development Team (DT) – a multifunctional group or team responsible for analyzing, developing, implementing and testing the product/service.

Agile 40

Agile Learning Technical Review Development Team Review 40

Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 5, 2016

The global wearable technology marketplace is growing at a staggering rate, estimated to increase from $7.1 Apple research concluded that the average time spent interacting with a smartwatch is two to five seconds—checking email, reviewing a schedule, reading an alert, etc. billion in 2015 to $12.6 billion by 2018. Conclusions.

Design 59

Design Tips Technical Review Software Review 59

Acuvate

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Development. A pipeline is a logical group of activities which are performed together to accomplish a task. This means that any commit that happens to the solution by dev team will trigger the build immediately. Technical Benefits. This can dramatically reduce the time it takes to review a merge request.

Software Review 40

Software Review Development Team Review Technical Review Software 40

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

hackerearth

AUGUST 2, 2017

Internal innovation can happen through R&D teams, innovation management teams, business development teams, and employees. Innovation mentors can help organizations identify their strengths and weaknesses via collaboration fairs, workshops, interviews, focus groups, and surveys. Help in the execution phase.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Ideation Innovation 40

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

Every year, the Manpower Group, a human resources consultancy, conducts a worldwide “Talent Shortage Survey.” Last year, 35% of 38,000 employers reported difficulty filling jobs due to lack of available talent; in the U.S., The issue is confusing because the skills required to work with new technologies are hard to measure.

Technical Review 11

Technical Review Software Review Design Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

Whether working in teams, groups or as individuals, people respond to incentives. The top executive gave no plaques or discernible praise for any of his company’s top teams or groups. Teams, not just individuals, should get their fair share of bonus pools. You and Your Team. Leading Teams.

Development Team Review 15

Development Team Review Collaboration Culture Software Developers 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

How should teams of experts working on knowledge-intensive projects be structured? Or will flexible, self-organized groups perform better? We studied how expertise was organized in 71 software development teams in a large U.S. high-tech company during the design and implementation phases of projects.

Underperforming Technical Team 13

Underperforming Technical Team How To Software Developers Software Development 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

However, these cross-functional groups often bump up against misaligned incentives, hierarchical decision-making, and cultural rigidities, causing progress to stall or action to not be taken at all. The group was surprised several times by the demands of external stakeholders. This story is not unique.

Agile 15

Agile Underperforming Technical Team How To Collaboration 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

It can often seem like digital technology is making every aspect of business move at warp speed. It’s cheaper because of automation and because small development teams need less coordination and oversight. Google’s test machine is built and run by a “test engineering” group, whose size is about 15% of their total developers.

Product Development 9

Product Development Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

This design pathology repeats itself virtually every day around the world by otherwise diligent and sincere innovators. No enterprise design initiative wastes more time, more effort, more money — while squandering goodwill — than the quest for requirements. The reason for this dysfunction is painfully simple.

Design 15

Design Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Developers 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Bally Technologies , a leading provider of gaming systems for casinos, has earned more than 60 awards for innovation in just the last four years. How did Bally Technologies do it? But while the foundational elements are the same, Bally Technologies uses them in a distinct way. Through an innovation excellence framework.

Technology 9

Technology Underperforming Technical Team Innovation System 9

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

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Xerox's failure to conquer the personal computing market — this despite developing revolutionary technology — demonstrates the importance of aligning all segments of your organization in the pursuit of innovation. Its successes include technology titans like Adobe and Level 3. In 1984, Apple Inc.

Company 15

Company Innovation Product Development Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

. $1 billion price tag paid by Facebook for Instagram, whose primary asset is not technology, but the best photo sharing UX in the business (and some of the best UX talent as well). Lean UX : In many cases, the best way to embed UX thinking in your product development teams is not to focus on design as a specific competency.

Strategy 13

Strategy Strategy Product Development LEAN 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

By Surya Panditi, SVP and GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. It’s no use having technology that’s responsive to the business if the business can’t respond to technology and the demands coming from its customers. But in the digital economy, it’s no longer enough to simply practice agile development.

Agile 9

Agile Survey Technology Company 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

In terms of people, processes and technologies, Toyota and Google's YouTube have little in common. USA Today ran an excellent — if over-flattering — profile of YouTube's splashy but serious effort to provide a high-tech incubator for content and channel creators. Toyota was prepared to help its best suppliers scale.

LEAN 10

LEAN Innovation eBook Video 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Clients often hire Open Innovation companies like ours when their research and development teams can''t get past — or maybe over is a better word — the way they have always looked, and where they have always looked for solutions. So we helped express the need and craft a technical brief in a way that cast a wider net.

Development Team Review 10

Development Team Review Innovation Open Innovation Industry 10

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.

Software Review 15

Software Review Design Thinking Software Design 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

Online security often focuses on technical details — software, hardware, vulnerabilities, and the like. But effective security is driven as much by people as it is by technology. The ways those people interact with technology and each other can completely change the effectiveness of your security strategy.

Data 12

Data Tools Design Collaboration 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2011

For such a project, the team is assigned to accomplish something beyond what they currently do or have done before. Here again each person develops and implements his own plans, but in this case shares what he is doing with the group.

Collaboration 15

Collaboration Brainstorming Resources Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

It’s one thing to note a person working solo in an otherwise empty seminar room, or a group of people huddling around someone’s desk because a conference room wasn’t available. To better understand how these work, try the exercise below on your own or with your team. This is easier said than done, however.

Design 14

Design Collaboration Exercises Technical Review 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Here are 3 things that can make a difference: Perform regular post-implementation reviews. This is about engaging project sponsors, system users, architects, and development teams in a clear understanding of the actual value received and how that relates to the business case originally used to justify the project.

Technical Review 9

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review Project 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Yes, there might be a niche group who are underserved, but as long as what ultimately matters is who else is on the same platform, no entrant who targets just that niche will be able to do any competitive damage. Both companies, while under a corporate umbrella, operate as independent brands with largely independent development teams.

Disruption 15

Disruption Competition Software Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

When a potential opportunity is identified, allow individuals or groups to experiment with ways to take advantage of it. Individuals discussed what they brought to the team and what they needed from their fellow team members. They did pulse checks to assess their alignment and where there was work to do.

Change 15

Change Underperforming Technical Team Agile Development Team Review 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

It occurs in stages: Structuring an external product “love group” Transforming the love group into early platform adopters. Makerbot structured and expanded this group through a series of projects, conferences, and events that built momentum for the product (phase 1). Insight Center. The Platform Economy.

Company 14

Company Groups Software Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

As everyone now knows, Healthcare.gov – the $394 million website that was supposed to enable millions of Americans to shop for health insurance – is experiencing some initial technical failures. But now there is a tremendous opportunity to involve a much more diverse group of stakeholders.

Underperforming Technical Team 10

Underperforming Technical Team Crowdsourcing Groups Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

Technology advancements and the Industrial Internet of Things are making this outcome orientation more feasible every day. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Product development teams will need to focus on delivering products as a service to enable real-time service level monitoring.

Company 14

Company Internet of things Data Product Development 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

E-commerce players were still figuring things out, and brick-and-mortar stores weren’t really experimenting with technology. Yet based on my own experiences, I believed we could use technology to make shopping more efficient. Each group can imagine things are possible that the other might not have dreamed of.

CTO 14

CTO Marketing Web Development Web Developers 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

A large high-technology company had established an innovation center in one of their U.S. offices where employees were entrepreneurial, engaged, excited to come to work, and as a result were quickly developing new ideas for customer-facing products. Global Teams Should Have Office Visits, Not Offsites. It made sense.

Culture 14

Culture Collaboration Software Developers Software Development 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology platform on which hundreds of thousands of independent developers could create apps and offer them to Apple''s customers. Amazon, Whole Foods, Toyota, Haier Group, Li & Fung and Zara are other prominent exemplars, along with thousands of lesser-known firms.

Management 12

Management Underperforming Technical Team Agile Software Developers 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

van Wassenhove, both of Insead in France, found that the complexity of high-tech innovation efforts can blur teams’ perceptions. The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. What went wrong?

Underperforming Technical Team 9

Underperforming Technical Team Management Project Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

For an example, I spoke with Andy Singleton , CEO of Assembla , a firm that helps software development teams build software faster. Multi-function teams build software enhancements that are rolled up into “releases” which are deployed every six weeks. As Singleton told me, “The technology world is a cult of innovation.

Software 11

Software Industry Management Team Building 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Xerox's failure to conquer the personal computing market — this despite developing revolutionary technology — demonstrates the importance of innovation among all sectors of your company. However, despite the fact that Apple brought it to the general public, the company didn't pioneer the technology.

Company 8

Company Innovation Product Development Technology 8