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Gap Analysis Framework Strategy Template

Leapfrogging

Key questions to consider: What performance area, process, or goal is being assessed? Identify the Current State Assess the organizations existing performance, processes, or capabilities by gathering data from: Key performance indicators (KPIs) Metrics that reflect current efficiency. What does ideal performance look like?

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower Innovation

We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. Your reasons for needing a technical review will depend on your business goals.

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Scaling Flow at Vanguard: A Journey from Pilot to Enterprise Transformation

Planview

Step 1: Start With a Small-Scale Pilot The journey began in 2022 when Vanguard initiated a pilot within their Chief Technology Office and IT department, focusing on improving the software developer experience. The teams struggled with excessive context switching and too much WIP, prompting them to optimize flow as a solution.

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. And other problems stemmed from UX practitioners feeling disconnected from the daily life of the development teams they supported.

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5 Tips for Adding Value to Agile Design

InnovationTraining.org

Indeed, a thorough research effort can show the team specifically what to design and perhaps even how to approach the new design. 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.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. In the past, IBM mostly provided enterprise software to customers who installed it on their own computers.

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Sinofsky Led at Microsoft, but That Doesn't Make Him a Leader

Harvard Business Review

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.