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. And other problems stemmed from UX practitioners feeling disconnected from the daily life of the development teams they supported.

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The Human Factor

JULY 27, 2022

Whatever industrial sector your startup works in, there’s a good likelihood that technology has to be integrated firmly in your fundamental business strategy. This raises the difficulty of finding the top software engineers for a business given that many are bootstrapped and some are sponsored. Establishing requirements.

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Planview

MARCH 15, 2024

GenAI has become a broad label, described as a type of artificial intelligence (AI) technology that can produce numerous types of content, such as text, video, image, and even music. With text-based generation comes more multi-dimensional advanced technology that, as one can imagine, produces a multitude of content formats.

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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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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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mjvinnovation

JULY 10, 2020

Smaller batches of work are easier to understand, commit, test, and review, as well as know when they are completed. When automation is combined with a solid agile mindset, it is possible to obtain resource development very close to the flow of each step, providing value to customers quickly and continuously.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 26, 2019

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. Requirements are usually reviewed and approved by the customer before the project can be started. There are good and bad things about this approach.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 5, 2016

The global wearable technology marketplace is growing at a staggering rate, estimated to increase from $7.1 Apple research concluded that the average time spent interacting with a smartwatch is two to five seconds—checking email, reviewing a schedule, reading an alert, etc. This creates a vibrant and promising developer environment.

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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. ” Believe me, I understand trade-offs.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We then reviewed them to see that the answer summaries made sense. This involves reviewing the feedback from the user testing, and making adjustments to the solution based on the insights gathered. This involves presenting the solution to stakeholders, and developing a plan for implementing and refining the solution moving forward.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

This typically holds true for the highest-ranking and most dynamic slices of industry, whether financial services, professional sports, health care or high tech. That is, individuals and teams may receive impressively large and ostensibly "performance-based" bonuses if they hit their numbers. Yes, the sales team was (ultimately) fired.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

This design pathology repeats itself virtually every day around the world by otherwise diligent and sincere innovators. 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.

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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 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

It can often seem like digital technology is making every aspect of business move at warp speed. For example, in a previous post I described how Amazon’s ability to continuously release software changes (8000 per day, one every 11 seconds) will crush competitors who are making a batch change every six weeks. Not necessarily.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

We see this sensibility articulated by Google’s software development teams and pair programming efforts. Does enterprise culture and process recognize and reward teams and teamwork with the same energy, enthusiasm, and investment as for individuals? Assess/Analyze.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Then one of the engineering executives, a fracking enthusiast and unconventional extraction technologies champion, spoke up. The innovation roadmap was hauled out and reviewed less in the spotlight of global opportunities than the cold reflection of domestic politics. What customer would matter most in five years? The room went quiet.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

The departure of senior Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky earlier this week has had business and tech circles buzzing. He may well be looked back on as a technology visionary. Here, Sinofsky seems to have defined his situation rather narrowly: to deliver a technical product that would delight customers, on time and on budget.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

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. When software is ubiquitous, agile needs to be likewise. But deployment of agile is still in pockets in many organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

A large high-technology company had established an innovation center in one of their U.S. offices where employees were entrepreneurial, engaged, excited to come to work, and as a result were quickly developing new ideas for customer-facing products. Global Teams Should Have Office Visits, Not Offsites. It made sense.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Indeed, software is emerging as the proving ground for the future of management practices, the way auto manufacturing used to be the proving ground for new management practices (think of the Toyota Production System ). Multi-function teams build software enhancements that are rolled up into “releases” which are deployed every six weeks.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology platform on which hundreds of thousands of independent developers could create apps and offer them to Apple''s customers. Moreover, when we look around at the companies who are doing well, it can be hard to see the rhyme or reason of the decisions that led to that success.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Nearly every business leader I meet fears being overcome by tech-savvy upstarts. The new team then risks moving on without absorbing the learning of their predecessors. In addition, this model improves the future work of innovation teams by helping them build an awareness of what downstream teams need most. The Architect.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

Last year, 35% of 38,000 employers reported difficulty filling jobs due to lack of available talent; in the U.S., The issue is confusing because the skills required to work with new technologies are hard to measure. Nevertheless, employers still have real difficulties hiring workers with the skills to deal with new technologies.

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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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