Planview

MAY 31, 2024

Value Stream Management (VSM) is crucial in software development as it provides a comprehensive view of the entire workflow, from ideation to delivery. This visibility is necessary to manage the productivity of development teams and ensure that software is delivered on time, on schedule and on budget.

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TechEmpower Innovation

JULY 24, 2023

Content Management How often will the application’s content need to change? Accounting Beyond reviewing transactions, what accounting support do you need? A Product Manager? Team and Process Are you using, or planning to use any software development methodologies? Do you rely on affiliates?

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Planview

MARCH 15, 2024

It’s no surprise the abundance of moving parts contributes to an ever-ambiguous world for software delivery. With a multitude of products and services that companies serve to customers, the recognition of Value Stream Management (VSM) in modern software delivery has never been stronger.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

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. In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

Although I was attending as a sponsor/exhibitor for Indigo Studio, I did manage to break away to go to the “There’s more than one way to skin a cat: Integrating UX into an Agile environment” session. It tied in quite nicely with the book I’m reviewing here. Book Reviews lean' I recently attended UXPA 2013 in D.C.

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Planview

MARCH 27, 2025

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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Bubblegroup

JULY 1, 2018

Available roles: The systems administrator will be responsible for managing the existing application and infrastructure, planning and implementing improvements, as well as developing new solutions to support our future software development. Applicants who pass our initial assessment will be invited to interview.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 6, 2018

Some excerpts: Work with the development team to follow a user-centered design approach as you work collaboratively to brainstorm and design innovative solutions to complex problems. Work closely with team members to conduct user research, identify pain points, develop user profiles, and create task lists.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 26, 2019

This is a choice that defines how the production of a software application will be managed, the resources that will be needed, among other things. In a project where the waterfall Model is used, each such point represents a different stage of software development, and each stage usually ends before the next stage can begin.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We then reviewed them to see that the answer summaries made sense. Developing new products and services: Design thinking can be used to generate ideas for new products and services, and prototype and test them to ensure that they meet the user’s needs and are feasible to implement. Here are your design thinking FAQs and answers.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 8, 2019

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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Acuvate

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

It is a set of practices that automates the process between software development and IT teams. The process involves building, testing and releasing the software faster and more reliably. This means that any commit that happens to the solution by dev team will trigger the build immediately.

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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. If top management does not buy this, Quality is doomed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Why don't more project managers sound an alarm when they're going to blow past their deadlines? That's the dirty little secret of project management. As the lead developer on one big software project put it: "Everybody knows the schedule is a joke, and we pay no attention to it. Too many variables.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

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 they didn't for the software-development team.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2016

This is particularly true in organizations where employees are both, what Paul Graham calls, “makers” and “managers.” ” Makers, also known as individual contributors, are the software developers, engineers, architects, writers, and researchers who produce knowledge. Please do not disturb.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Why don't more project managers sound an alarm when they're going to blow past their deadlines? That's the dirty little secret of project management. As the lead developer on one big software project put it: "Everybody knows the schedule is a joke, and we pay no attention to it. Too many variables.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

That is, individuals and teams may receive impressively large and ostensibly "performance-based" bonuses if they hit their numbers. However, they typically need not worry about forfeiture if, upon review, those numbers require restatement, revision or repair. Yes, the sales team was (ultimately) fired.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

But have you thought about the implications of this trend for management practices? The rapid pace of change in software (e.g., 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

In fact, virtual teams can actually outperform traditional co-located groups. Dispersed teams can outperform co-located ones only if — and this is a big "if" — they are managed properly. But co-located teams can sometimes get away with sloppy management, whereas virtual teams have little margin for error.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

So how do people — and even dogs — routinely manage it? Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. This is the kind of thinking that business managers can also profit from. But manage it, and you become the industry leader.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

They've proven remarkably successful for software developers and customer-centric industrial designers alike. They transformed design team morale and purpose in remarkably short time spans. Use cases are integral elements of the increasingly popular Agile and XP software development methodologies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > The downside of this approach is that when projects increase in complexity and team size, the central individual can become a communication and coordination bottleneck for the team. Another approach is to let teams self-manage. But is this really the best way to work?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

Whether working in teams, groups or as individuals, people respond to incentives. And the incentives top management ignores can prove more revealing than the ones they celebrate. In other words, top management should seek out talented teams, not just gifted individuals. Assess/Analyze.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

The innovation roadmap was hauled out and reviewed less in the spotlight of global opportunities than the cold reflection of domestic politics. ” That’s not cynicism; that’s savvy risk management. Strategic success required pleasing Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin. The room went quiet. No one disagreed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. The bulk of this agile canon will teach your individual teams to deliver higher-quality code, faster. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

It’s cheaper because of automation and because small development teams need less coordination and oversight. And the risk can be managed through a new kind of tool called “feature gates.”. Continuous integration and automated testing is important for all modern, large scale software development.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Here, Sinofsky seems to have a good record as a manager and may well have demonstrated leadership. The Times reports that he ran his organization as "a disciplined army that met deadlines, and he was respected by people on his team." The fourth dimension is leading up to one's boss. Executives come and go.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

You and Your Team Series. Managing Across Cultures. In China, however, talking with customers was seen as in imposition on both the developers and the customers, who were considered uninterested and unreliable in articulating product requirements. In some cases, they left for companies where managers were more hands-on.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

In Today’s Digital Economy, Agile Practices Can’t Be Limited to Just the IT and Development Realms. By Surya Panditi, SVP and GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. Agile practices have a vital part to play in the rapid delivery and continuous maintenance of software-driven products and services.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

They have to decide where to adopt agile principles and mindsets, where to use agile problem-solving methodologies to dynamically address strategic and organizational challenges, and where to more formally deploy the full agile model, including self-managed teams. This type of management boosts the velocity of decision making.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

One major Asian electronics company built a design lab to develop new hardware product ideas. This is a strong model for industries like consumer packaged goods, where one person, such as a brand manager, is responsible for product development from beginning to end. Here’s an example.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Software development is a frenzied decathlon of activity, constantly pressed on all sides by resource constraints, budgets and deadlines. The answer lies in focusing the entire team around a problem statement. Most software development teams today are feature-focused. Their primary task is to build features.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

A worldwide scheme by thousands of business managers to manipulate public opinion seems far-fetched. They are even harder to manage. Yet although skills are not a major contributor to today’s unemployment, the longer-term issue of worker skills is important both for managers and for policy.

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