Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

I reached out to seventy colleagues and received detailed responses from twenty UX professionals (including interaction designers, user researchers, and visual designers) who were actively supporting Scrum development teams. Regular check-ins with product owners are also helpful in knowing priorities.”

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Agile Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review 111

Planview

MARCH 27, 2025

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. Flow isnt just about visibility.

CTO 52

CTO Software Review Technical Review Software Development 52

CMOE

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Effective team leaders take on diverse and dynamic roles, each vital for guiding their team to success. Understanding these roles and responsibilities, and how they facilitate adaptability, is essential for aspiring leaders and organizations seeking to develop strong leadership in their ranks.

Leadership 52

Leadership Development Team Review Culture Project 52

Innovation 360 Group

OCTOBER 29, 2017

In fact, strategy, leadership and capabilities are the foundation but culture is the enabler. To be sure, culture without leadership and capabilities leads only, in the best case, to inventions that have trouble taking off, and if they do, it occurs randomly as a one-off success. Harvard University and many other similar organizations.

Culture 63

Culture Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 63

Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 15, 2020

But there is much more to effective leadership than this. Effective leaders can have crucial impacts on not only their team members, but their company as a whole. If you look around and see that your team members have become disengaged or stagnant in their work, it may be high time to reassess and reorient your leadership strategies.

Engagement 48

Engagement Culture Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review 48

Inceodia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

True Leadership entails building empathy for those you are entrusted to help. There are two reasons for this: 1) a simple design that elegantly solves a problem for your customer will be the preferred solution, every time; 2) clear evidence of customer validation of your idea will be hard for your leadership team to ignore.

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Culture How To Technical Review Innovation 59

Be-novative

MARCH 30, 2021

The problem: The protagonist of our session is an expert in Leadership team effectiveness offering Dialogic Team coaching solutions to teams of all-size organisations. which might not be the best indicator that the same person should lead teams. This way they feel they become heroes of their own teams.

Marketing 52

Marketing How To Leadership Design 52

Innovation 360

OCTOBER 29, 2017

In fact, strategy, leadership and capabilities are the foundation but culture is the enabler. To be sure, culture without leadership and capabilities leads only, in the best case, to inventions that have trouble taking off, and if they do, it occurs randomly as a one-off success. Harvard University and many other similar organizations.

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Innovation Underperforming Technical Team Culture Development Team Review 40

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 Design Training Project 75

mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

According to the Harvard Business Review, only 30% of companies train their employees to interact with digital tools. We are not trained to work virtually, without any contact with other employees. Although, as we said earlier, this is already a reality in many companies. In other words, practically no one focuses on behavioral use.

Culture 45

Culture Change Agile Technical Review 45

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Reversing this means that companies start at the end — with results.

Leadership 15

Leadership Development Team Review Case Study Training 15

InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 8, 2019

As explained in Why UX design is so important in agile software development , one straightforward approach is to allow UX designers to work one sprint ahead of the development team. The “UX advance team” can quickly gather user feedback to evaluate proposed product features. Agile Design Tip 2—Leading with UX Design.

Agile 40

Agile Tips Software Review Design 40

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2018

Although his one-on-one meetings with these reports, which involved progress reviews, motivation, and coaching, were highly productive, his monthly team meetings weren’t. Catherine, a senior marketing director leading a cross-functional product development team at the same company, provides a contrasting case study.

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Development Team Review Report Groups Meeting 14

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!

Underperforming Technical Team 41

Underperforming Technical Team Design Training Project 41

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Based on our experience building innovation teams and consulting for Fortune 500 companies on setting up innovation processes, a key component that has proven to be paramount but consistently neglected is psychological assessment. Why does this even matter?

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Groups Creativity Data Development Team Review 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2022

Findings from a study of 62 drug-development teams.

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Study Leadership Management Innovation 22

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

.” Now the team is tasked with both identifying and carrying out the right activities to make the required sales. This gives the team enough time to achieve something dramatic — but not so much that members will struggle to keep it top of mind. In addition, the urgency creates the conditions for rapid skill development.

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Project Design Learning Underperforming Technical Team 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

There is a common myth about product development: the more features we put into a product, the more customers will like it. Product-development teams seem to believe that adding features creates value for customers and subtracting them destroys it.

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Product Development Innovation Processes Leadership Marketing 20

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2012

Teams can define themselves as the collection of their members. Balancing these tensions requires resonant leadership. Teams need leaders, both formal and informal. They need leaders within the team to create purpose and excitement, and provide social glue, what Harvard professor Richard Hackman calls "bracketing."

Leadership 18

Leadership Company Management Culture 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2011

For a top management group, it might be the requirement to reduce overall expenses or headcount by 20%; for a sales or business development team, the goal might be to increase revenues by 10% in the next quarter; and for a product development team the focus could be on accelerating a market launch by two months.

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Collaboration Brainstorming Resources Leadership 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Executive leadership has your back. When I talked about the failure metric and freeing the team to become more entrepreneurial, some in the larger PBS organization translated this as the digital group wanting a license to be undisciplined. Our development team went Agile. Iterate fast. Be entrepreneurial. The site failed.

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Video Development Team Review Culture LEAN 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

On admission, the team gathers the patient history, performs a physical assessment, determines an anticipated discharge date, and works backward from this date to build a coordinated plan of care. The physician leads the clinical assessment and planning process but as a team member/partner. Involve the patient.

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Collaboration Development Team Review LEAN Guidelines 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The questions were developed by Press Ganey, the healthcare survey company, and were related to employee engagement. We also had open questions in our surveys to give people an opportunity to express their concerns related to leadership, operations, compensation, and staffing. Team members had grown close and wanted to stick together.

Change 14

Change How To Leadership Survey 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

By the summer of 2008 GE leadership wanted to sell the appliances business or spin it off. everyone met to review the prior day, and what they would do that day. everyone met again to review what they''d done. The development team was extremely cohesive. Then at the end of 2007 the housing market crashed.

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Development Team Review LEAN Training Culture 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

What I take issue with, however, is our collective tendency to automatically call people in senior positions "leaders" and then be disappointed when they fail to display leadership. At the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative , we use the simplest definition of leader that I have come across: people follow you.

Leadership 12

Leadership Software Development Software Developers Report 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

One of the best ways to boost their capacity to transform themselves and their products may involve hiring more women and culturally diverse team members, research suggests. The results revealed that businesses run by culturally diverse leadership teams were more likely to develop new products than those with homogenous leadership.

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Study Groups Culture Leadership 19

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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Agile Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. 2) Engage people who are going to use the software or service (called “sponsor users”) from start to finish through the development process. These teams are delivering updates continually.

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Software Review Design Thinking Software Design 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

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. For example, Maureen is a mid-level learning and development leader at a global tech company that’s growing rapidly through acquisition.

Change 15

Change Underperforming Technical Team Agile Development Team Review 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Stuart Roden, Co Fund Manager of Lansdowne Partners'' flagship fund, one of the world''s largest hedge funds, tells me he sees one of his primary roles as being the person who challenges his staff to consider how they could be wrong, and then assess how this might impact on their decision-making. They never released the product.

Development Team Review 12

Development Team Review Groups Study Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Stuart Roden, Co Fund Manager of Lansdowne Partners’ flagship fund, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, tells me he sees one of his primary roles as being the person who challenges his staff to consider how they could be wrong, and then assess how this might impact on their decision-making. They never released the product.

Development Team Review 12

Development Team Review Groups Study Marketing 12

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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Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review Disruption Agile 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

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.

Strategy 14

Strategy Strategy Product Development LEAN 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

APRIL 18, 2011

Sometimes it's new leadership that spurs action, other times efforts percolating within companies capture executives' attention. Our operations departments were focused on our products and services, our finance teams on collecting payments, and our sales and business development teams on meeting short-term revenue goals.

Culture 15

Culture Training Report Resources 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

Make friends in the business development team so that you know about the big local client projects coming up and can volunteer for them early (no business travel!). Make “Friday review” a habit, and you’ll be able to shave hours off your weekly work, gaining meaningful peace of mind. Work differently.

Technical Review 15

Technical Review Resources Development Team Review Meeting 15

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. Quite possibly, if the company had allowed its business development team the same innovation infrastructure and autonomy it gave its technology team.

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