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. There was initial resistance to measuring the full software development lifecycle beyond engineering cycle time.

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Anaqua

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

With client-led software development, we partner closely with our clients to develop a long-term strategic roadmap where we identify opportunities and gaps (such as functional capabilities), and then determine what elements Anaqua should build, buy, or partner that will best support our platform, AQX®, and most importantly the needs of our clients.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 8, 2019

Design Innovative software” is not a concrete goal; it’s a vague directive. 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. It was created for software developers.

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Planview

JUNE 13, 2023

Identification is carried out through comprehensive testing, much like quality assurance in traditional software development. We work diligently to ensure that our training data is compiled responsibly. At Planview, we ensure accuracy and impartiality with bias identification and bias correction.

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Technology Created

AUGUST 24, 2014

But one of the best things about the coach was his leadership, something sorely missing in today’s consensus-driven culture. And his leadership began every year the same way in the first moment the team was together. He reviewed the fundamentals of blocking and tackling, the basic plays, how to study the playbook.

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Planview

APRIL 6, 2023

The data measures the flow of business value through all the activities involved in a software value stream. We see disparity for companies in the same industry, with some delivering business value via their software delivery at three times their prior speed once they start focusing on flow of business value.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 19, 2018

That starts by working outward from a thorough assessment of your organization’s aspiration and abilities, including an investigation of your company culture, leadership styles, and potential capabilities. Even the most powerful innovations can flounder if they don’t have the full support of company leadership.

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Innovation 360

JUNE 20, 2018

That starts by working outward from a thorough assessment of your organization’s aspiration and abilities, including an investigation of your company culture, leadership styles, and potential capabilities. Even the most powerful innovations can flounder if they don’t have the full support of company leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

“This was a couple of rogue software engineers who put this in for whatever reason.” His “rogue software engineers” echo executive whines a few years back about “rogue traders” at UBS and JPMorgan that cost those companies billions. Always look to the leadership. ” Ach, du lieber!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Would the traditional host organization reject the new software center as an alien entity?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Perhaps the HealthCare.gov gang that couldn’t code straight had never heard this software mantra. The better question and concern is, where was the leadership and oversight helping to assure Obamacare’s implementation success? Contingencies are constantly reviewed and appropriately revised. Are they right?

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2012

One colleague who'd helped grow a start-up to a nine-figure sale responded with the name of a particularly gifted software development project leader who blew him away with his standards of excellence and expectations management.). The most common response was that they'd never been asked before. The data suggest not. That seems odd.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

In a blockchain transaction, you don’t have to trust your counterpart to perform their obligations or properly record transactional data, since these processes are standardized and automated, but you do have to trust that the code and the network will function as you expect. The code was the contract and the law for The DAO.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. Tom Watson, Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The market-strategy meeting is next week, and I still haven't seen your plan, which was due yesterday. It's part of the software-development project.".

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

Paying close attention to customer complaints is a leadership "best practice." The larger question, however, remains: Why would leaderships in any organization say or do things that disrespect their customers? The software vendor cut its worst customer loose. But they shouldn't be allowed to become cesspools of complaints.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The integrated management is based on software developed by our own IT department. Eduardo Paes is the mayor of Rio de Janeiro.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Why are there so few women in leadership roles? As a proxy for the likelihood of being promoted, we also tested for influence, on the theory that people who are seen as influential are more likely to be promoted to leadership roles. But first, some background. One frequently cited reason has to do with confidence.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Fernández-Aráoz agrees: “What you should not do is ask direct questions, like ‘Tell me about your leadership style,’” he says. One of the greatest mistakes you can make is failing to do your due diligence. In 2010, Joe Franzen was searching for a position as a software developer.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users. Those individuals came from nine countries and numerous industries.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

In some technology companies, for example, software development is critical to business success. So the best-performing companies in this industry make sure that software development roles are filled with star talent. In other industries brand management matters more, so the A players tend to be clustered there.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

He's a software developer with a German accent. This is not just about world leadership and violence; it's about mundane leadership and everyday relationships, as well. "Stop it," I screamed, completely swept up in the moment. Stop screaming. Stop the hatred. Stop the violence.". But Günther isn't a Nazi. For his accent.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

Leslie Perlow did a fascinating study of engineers doing software development and observed them frequently using their time in ways that could only make it more difficult to meet their aggressive deadline. Saying you can't do it all is not a failure of leadership, it is effective leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Often, accomplishments at a 20-person-company cannot prepare you for a leadership role at a 200-person-company. For example, enterprise sales and software development both look very different between early-stage and at scale, while customer service or inside sales use the same processes with 1 or 1,000 employees.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

“There are a wide variety of reasons to choose a job sharing arrangement — it might be to take care of a dependent, to work another job, or to advance one’s education,” says Stew Friedman, a professor of management at the Wharton School and author of Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life. Case study #2: Put respect first.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

According to Litow, the objective was threefold: to support IBMers in their service engagements, to invest the intellectual capital of IBMers in tackling social issues around the world, and to develop the expertise and leadership of IBMers through volunteer opportunities that leverage their skills and abilities.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

According to Litow, the objective was threefold: to support IBMers in their service engagements, to invest the intellectual capital of IBMers in tackling social issues around the world, and to develop the expertise and leadership of IBMers through volunteer opportunities that leverage their skills and abilities.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. LaunchPad , a San Francisco startup that provides enterprise innovation software, recently participated in a vision sprint that I designed for them.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

This is an enormous missed opportunity: we found that the best companies are more than 25% more productive than the rest due to the way they deploy, team and lead scarce, difference-making talent. Here’s what our research shows: The best talent is significantly more productive than the rest.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

ING is in the middle of a transition from traditional step-by-step (" waterfall ") software development approaches to using cross-functional teams to make quick, small changes to systems (called " agile scrum " methods). It has worked very effectively at a team level, and they've scaled up to 40 "scrum" teams.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

Like Samsung, we have found it critical to establish leadership in home markets first, we place a similar importance on mixing local and global talent, and we faced the same cultural integration challenges. And companies in Accra include venture fund Oasis Capital and agricultural private equity house Injaro Investments.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making. Leadership roles and responsibilities.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Or take Salesforce.com and its willingness to have self-organizing development teams continuously tweaking code, even though, with a global system serving more than two million subscribers, the risks of introducing errors into its 30 million lines of code would seem to present compelling reasons not to.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

We know a lot about how teams collaborate face-to-face, with regard to leadership, communication, conflict resolution, and other areas. More broadly a recent survey shows that companies today use 16 software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps on average, up 33% from 2017, and 73% of organizations say nearly all their apps will be SaaS by 2020.

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