Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

With careful patience they will tell me that while other firms may take months or years to move from the recognition of an opportunity to a good idea, and then from a good idea to a finished product, and then from a finished product to a successful market launch, their firm is different. Usually, blank stares result, for good reason.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

It tied in quite nicely with the book I’m reviewing here. As sometime director of Design at Infragistics, I personally have had first hand experience trying to integrate UX into an existing, established Agile engineering process with large-ish teams. The answer situates itself within the Lean approach to product development.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization. Many of the problems they reported indicated that both UX professionals and technical staff lacked a shared understanding of each others’ team roles and responsibilities.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We then reviewed them to see that the answer summaries made sense. How can design thinking help with product development? This involves reviewing the feedback from the user testing, and making adjustments to the solution based on the insights gathered. How can design thinking help with product development?

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Design Thinking Design Underperforming Technical Team Ideation 74

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

These trends, as one industry insider put it, “burn really bright and really short,” necessitating abbreviating product development cycles from several years to months, or even weeks. Her experience was that parent organization answers carry time, complications, and overhead that a rapid development team can’t tolerate.

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eBook Innovation Strategic Thinking Development Team Review 68

Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 7, 2022

To start, invite more individuals to review an intern’s work. It’s invaluable to show the interns where his or her work fits within the larger effort of the company, [such as] how the case study created by a marketing intern aligns to a need within sales, or the competitive analysis is used by the product development team,” Moss said. “It

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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 Design Training Project 75

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.

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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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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

Be-novative

MARCH 30, 2021

With that said, tailor-made feedback and future-proof assessments are vital when it comes to first-time managers. They are thirsty for relevant, human feedback to learn from. They appreciate if feedback comes in real-time without waiting weeks for the results of a personality test. We contribute to a better, more creative Earth.

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Marketing How To Leadership Design 52

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. All that's left for users to select is the volume.

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Product Development Innovation Processes Leadership Marketing 20

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 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2015

So marketers must develop the same mind-set and skills that allow agile tech and product-development teams to manage complex projects with many unknowns and moving parts. Review the effectiveness of your current efforts, including projected profitability. Here are some recommendations for doing that.

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Agile Marketing Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

For these reasons, my advice is to avoid relying on a collaborative relationship except in the rare cases when a company objective is important enough to warrant some collaborative action but not so important as to warrant a dedicated team. And don't think of it as a permanent solution.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

Consistent with these famous case studies, scientific research shows that creativity and innovation can be enhanced by reducing team harmony. Likewise, a review of theoretical and quantitative studies showed that teams are often more creative when they have fewer rather than more resources (for example, time, money, and people).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

In business today, "user experience" (or UX) has come to represent all of the qualities of a product or service that make it relevant or meaningful to an end-user — everything from its look and feel design to how it responds when users interact with it, to the way it fits into people's daily lives.

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Strategy Strategy Product Development LEAN 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

Most project review meetings, which involved top managers asking challenging questions of project team members, constructively shaped projects for the better. After one such meeting, for example, a team member wrote in his diary, "The project passed start gate today. Find small wins even in setbacks.

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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

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

MAY 24, 2016

We term these product launches “minivations” and they are the result of product developers who don’t realize just how much value their offerings would provide to customers. After bringing its new product to market, the component maker commissioned an assessment of its product development process.

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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. ” 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

MAY 15, 2018

Our research focuses on agility not as a broad ideal, but rather on where it matters most — at the point of execution, where teams are working on new products, strategic initiatives, or with top clients. We also conducted hundreds of interviews with both workers and leaders in these companies.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team How To Collaboration 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Its straightforward, step-by-step methodology makes it relatively easy to explain and to implement: Identify the minimal viable product. Develop a version rapidly and test it with customers, ideally in a real-world competitive situation. Repeat the process until the core product is competitive or pivot to explore a new approach.

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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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Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review Disruption Agile 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

.” HBR: Too Much Team Harmony Can Kill Creativity by Darko Lovric and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic — “Consistent with these famous case studies, scientific research shows that creativity and innovation can be enhanced by reducing team harmony.

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Case Study Creativity Collaboration Study 14

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

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Innovation is the confluence of product development and a business model that can deliver those products to customers at a profit. 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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Both companies, while under a corporate umbrella, operate as independent brands with largely independent development teams. Doing so would have completely upended their product development organization. In a few short years it created enviable mobile products but also found out how to generate ad revenue on small screens.

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Disruption Competition Software Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

If the goal was to leapfrog the competition in every product line while revitalizing U.S. The $1 billion plan envisioned 11 new product platforms in six different manufacturing sites. GE needed to reduce new product development cycles from 3-4 years to 1-1.5 everyone met again to review what they''d done.

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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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Company Internet of things Data Product Development 14

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 Disruption 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Xavier’s new role, at least for the next year, was to lead a product development team in Monterrey. He arranged a meeting of his team and set out responsibilities. Excited about the new role and anxious to get quick results to impress his own manager, Xavier wanted to hit the ground running.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

Security is often approached as an engineering-led effort in which cross-functional teams from research, design, or product are less important. Cross-functional teams are particularly valuable for thinking through the various experiences people may have with a product. A focus on outcomes rather than inputs.

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