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. ” Believe me, I understand trade-offs.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software 40

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

It’s cheaper because of automation and because small development teams need less coordination and oversight. Here is a quick look at how Google and HubSpot have managed to achieve remarkable speed in product releases while simultaneously reducing risk. HubSpot’s Small Development Teams and “Feature Gates”.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2020

Prelude : When kicking off a project, we assemble the best possible project team , our “ special commando ” like we call it. We run an identification workshop with the project team, to assess the objectives, constraints and KPI?s Now, we have all the keys to start the product development. GO : Bring the action!

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Underperforming Technical Team Training Design Project 44

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

Like many companies, Exotech struggled with serious time delays in its product-development projects. The hardware team had employed similar processes in the past and found them helpful. So the company assumed the software team would, too. But they didn't for the software-development team. The results?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2011

You can sit down with your manager for an informal conversation or at your midpoint review and ask to work with certain people or projects on your Wish List. Volunteer for new initiatives, ask for a specific project or assignment or just highlight your desire to work with Ben, Steve or the product development team in the coming weeks.

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Development Team Review Roadmap Project Learning 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Yet most organizations don’t manage internal collaboration productively, and assume that technology or formal org charts can yield agility.

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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. Product development teams have to work with field maintenance and commercial teams.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Throughout the '70s, Xerox leadership empowered a group of scientists and engineers to develop products for the coming information era. McColough also recognized that building information technology products wasn't a task for Xerox's existing research staff. He refused to sit idly by and let Xerox miss its rise.

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Company Innovation Product Development Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. ” As design expertise became more critical to the success of IBM products and services, increasingly designers worked more frequently in collaboration with software engineers on product development.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

new product releases every day, not every year), has caused an increasing pressure on product development in other areas, and on management in general, to change more continuously as well. For an example, I spoke with Andy Singleton , CEO of Assembla , a firm that helps software development teams build software faster.

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Software Industry Management Team Building 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

We’ve created an end-to-end electronic domain that connects all elements of product development – conceptualization, design and analysis, simulation and optimization, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operations and sustainment. Another part comes from sharing information. Communicate.

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Collaboration Design System Creativity 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

For example, suppose that you and the interview team think that Jodi may be overstating his accomplishments. ” or “Tell me a little about the product development team Jodi worked on.” Sometimes a reference will drift from the script and give you important information if you just wait a little.

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How To Tips Product Development Management 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?

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Underperforming Technical Team Management Project Innovation 9

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. These criteria assume a limited supply of financial capital and that prudent allocation of financial capital determines a firm’s success.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Throughout the '70s, Xerox leadership empowered a group of scientists and engineers to develop products for the coming information era. McColough also recognized that building information technology products wasn't a task for Xerox's existing research staff. He refused to sit idly by and let Xerox miss its rise.

Company 8

Company Innovation Product Development Technology 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. Systematic Inc.,

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Boxes and Arrows

MAY 4, 2009

Anyone can accidentally delete useful information. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2016

” will be difficult for many companies to achieve — not for lack of technological expertise but because they’ll fail to recognize the value of design in connected product development. Problem statements should assess value to the customer, covering fundamental questions including, “Why does this matter?

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Internet of things Design Technology Product Development 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

If not, can’t we just handle it informally and skip the accounting rigmarole?”. What about processes that are more central to a company’s operations, such as product development, customer service, or materials purchasing? But then Reed [Hastings, the CEO] asked, “Are companies required to give time off? Focus on the big picture.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

But they focused their energy on the technical issues — methods of connectivity, standards of information sharing — without having asked a fundamental question: What new things could each of our connected devices do that people would actually want them to do? If real products do not emerge according to plan, kill the project.

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