Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

It turns out that Jeff Gothelf, author of Lean UX (the book I’m reviewing here) has also faced the same challenges. Jeff was different from the session presenters in that he offered a potential solution to the staggered sprint pains. The answer situates itself within the Lean approach to product development.

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Agile LEAN Development Team Review Software Review 80

Imaginatik

JULY 12, 2016

Let’s take the present day drone as an example. In many cases, it’s the only way to achieve a scale that justifies the often-substantial investments in the development of technical prototypes and operations. However, in complex innovation efforts, large operational problems may surface only after a certain scale is reached.

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Planview

MARCH 18, 2022

At Planview, we believe women in tech are the future and Geetika Gagneja is a part of Planview’s past, present, and future. For this month’s blog spotlight , we are going to travel to Bangalore and follow Geetika to spend a day in the life of a Software Development Engineer Test manager. What type of meetings do you prepare for?

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards ( NCARB ), a national non-profit organization, develops standards for licensure and credentialing of architects.

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Marketing LEAN Case Study Innovation 65

InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX? How can design thinking help with product development? Day 5: Present the solution and plan for implementation. This involves presenting the solution to stakeholders, and developing a plan for implementing and refining the solution moving forward.

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Design Thinking Design Underperforming Technical Team Ideation 74

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. Both designers and user researchers shared techniques for keeping product owners and developers informed and aware of their progress. Be present in the life of the scrum team.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Waterfall Development.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 21, 2020

The best of these will guide AT&T's development for years to come." - Robert Rubin, Product Development, AT&T. Several of the ideas we came up with in the Idea Champions session are being developed into concrete projects that are looking like very profitable opportunities." - Rudy Villa, VP, GE/RCA Licensing.

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Brainstorming Idea Generation Entrepreneurship Ideation 52

Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Each cycle or project progresses from a blank page, to a platform question, to ideation, to convergence, to pitch presentations. The top person chooses one or more of the pitched ideas to put into the product development pipeline for introduction.

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Innovation Product Development LEAN Project 40

Leanstack

AUGUST 17, 2017

In my first book, Running Lean , I outlined a Problem Interview script for uncovering problems worth solving. In this post, I will present an updated script that improves upon the first. On that Lean Canvas, you take your best guess at articulating a customer and problem hypothesis. Problem Interview Script 1.0

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

However, while being quite enthusiastic about option #1, the new product and business model development path, the leaders understand that the deck they were presented with is a highly processed document that necessarily hides a lot of detail and differences of opinion and perspective.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

A disruption does not present an existential threat to the corporation, it can be addressed with a relatively modest investment required to establish and expand an outpost, rather than the large investments required for corporate moonshots, e.g., IBM’s Watson. In other words the disruption is expected to happen within 5+ years.

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Innovation How To Disruption Entrepreneurship 67

Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

A disruption does not present an existential threat to the corporation, it can be addressed with a relatively modest investment required to establish and expand an outpost, rather than the large investments required for corporate moonshots, e.g., IBM’s Watson. In other words the disruption is expected to happen within 5+ years.

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Innovation How To Disruption Entrepreneurship 67

Planview

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Generating Strategic Insights Quickly To make this concrete, assume that I am a seasoned executive at an enterprise organization but only have a cursory knowledge of the concepts of flow, lean, and Agile that my teams use for planning. When I do that, it instantly recommends pushing out the Loyalty Program roadmap item.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 12, 2015

One of the riskiest assumptions for any new product or feature is that customers actually want it. For those who care about making data-driven business decisions, the challenge that presents itself is: How do we adhere to rigorous scientific standards in a world that demands adaptability and agility to survive?

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

So my challenge is to present a trustworthy pipeline of new products and new market segments with realistic financial estimations, and concrete timelines”. Joe has to present economic results and a trustworthy future. Of course I also have to report results of the current business, revenue numbers, market share, etc.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

So my challenge is to present a trustworthy pipeline of new products and new market segments with realistic financial estimations, and concrete timelines”. Joe has to present economic results and a trustworthy future. Of course I also have to report results of the current business, revenue numbers, market share, etc.

Innovation 52

Innovation Trends Software Collaboration 52

Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

So my challenge is to present a trustworthy pipeline of new products and new market segments with realistic financial estimations, and concrete timelines”. Joe has to present economic results and a trustworthy future. Of course I also have to report results of the current business, revenue numbers, market share, etc.

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Innovation Trends Software Collaboration 52

InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

What you might not remember is Bill Gates presenting a computer tablet years earlier. The difference was that Bill Gates presented his idea and expected buy-in from everyone. While Apple focussed on how the idea was executed, because Steve Jobs understood his customers, and knew that people buy the experience as much as the product.

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Marketing Technical Review LEAN Design 40

Integrative Innovation

OCTOBER 18, 2016

There are distinct differences by industry: Financial service corporates are leaning towards Corp-Up (63%), One-off events (56%) and CVC (38%), media players towards CVC (80%) and Corp-Up (60%), and telecoms towards Corp-Up (57%) and incubators/ accelerators (56%). Corporates are following a fundamental flaw in their own logic.

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Engagement Innovation Collaboration LEAN 40

Huub Rutten

MAY 4, 2021

It started with Agile software development where it is used as an equivalent of the word Story, but meanwhile the term developed into a label for many different things. Let us have a deeper dive in it and ask ourselves if it is really a good starting point for development investments? What is an Epic in literature? It seems so.

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Software Review Agile Software Development Software Developers 52

Huub Rutten

MAY 4, 2021

It started with Agile software development where it is used as an equivalent of the word Story, but meanwhile the term developed into a label for many different things. Let us have a deeper dive in it and ask ourselves if it is really a good starting point for development investments? What is an Epic in literature? It seems so.

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Software Review Agile Software Development Software Developers 52

Huub Rutten

MAY 4, 2021

It started with Agile software development where it is used as an equivalent of the word Story, but meanwhile the term developed into a label for many different things. Let us have a deeper dive in it and ask ourselves if it is really a good starting point for development investments? What is an Epic in literature? It seems so.

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Software Review Agile Software Development Software Developers 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

It’d be hard to choose two words that feel less descriptive of life inside a large organization than “lean” and “startup.” ” Lean startup, popularized by writers and entrepreneurs like Eric Ries and Steve Blank, can deliver big benefits inside big companies. Ramazan Balay. First, the benefits.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Most corporate business functions – new product development (NPD), quality, sales, R&D, marketing, etc. CB Insights; CB Insights Presents: Corporate Innovation Theatre In 8 Acts ; CB Insights Research Briefs; December 16, 2015. A system designed, over the long run, to produce more blockbusters than bombs.

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System Innovation Groups Leadership 53

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

Steve Blank, who pioneered the concept of the “lean startup,” has often written that “ no business plan survives first contact with the customer.” ” That’s why he urges startups to “get out of the building” and talk to potential customers before beginning product development in earnest.

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LEAN Technical Review Company Agile 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

” Arkilic had been reading Steve Blank’s blog , as well as his book, The Four Steps to the Epiphany , which would later spawn the lean startup movement. From Product Development to Customer Development. ” And I think that underlines something we often miss about the lean startup movement.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

A disruption does not present an existential threat to the corporation, it can be addressed with a relatively modest investment required to establish and expand an outpost, rather than the large investments required for corporate moonshots, e.g., IBM’s Watson. In other words the disruption is expected to happen within 5+ years.

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Innovation How To Disruption Entrepreneurship 40

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He was not your standard internet entrepreneur — the student presenting was pitching a project to increase sub-Saharan farm income, by helping farmers shift from traditional crops to rubber trees. He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. rubber trees take years to mature.".

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LEAN Company Underperforming Technical Team Project 12

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

A disruption does not present an existential threat to the corporation, it can be addressed with a relatively modest investment required to establish and expand an outpost, rather than the large investments required for corporate moonshots, e.g., IBM’s Watson. In other words the disruption is expected to happen within 5+ years.

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Innovation How To Disruption Entrepreneurship 38

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking. Of course, Sutherland and Schwaber weren’t alone in their search for innovative methods.

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Agile Software Review LEAN Software Development 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up , has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. Akamai: The Present. The chart below shows the company's strong financial performance from 2009 to the present.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2012

The Lean Startup has crystallized many of the ideas fundamental to successful innovation and provided companies with additional ways to understand and make room for rapid iteration, agile development, and in-market testing of new ideas. As Ries writes, some entrepreneurs hear "minimum viable" product as "smallest imaginable" product.

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Matthew Griffin

MARCH 23, 2015

Only one thing is certain at this stage – you’re going to end up iterating your product time and time again, tweaking, perfecting, tearing it down and starting again. The products are very easy to adopt. They use lean, agile development techniques. They build good Minimum Viable Products.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

What if we helped students identify their skills and present them to employers in a credible way? MyEdu helps students identify their skills and present them to employers in a credible way. We promise to students that, if they use our products, we’ll help them identify their skills and show these skills to employers.

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Design Underperforming Technical Team Product Development Data 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The result: a highly-reactive product development culture in which extra features are continuously bolted on, making the company vulnerable to more pro-active competitors who have a laser-like focus on UX, which can be a potent disruptor in many industries. Design Leadership development Product development'

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Leadership Design Product Development LEAN 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

Here are five new attributes that I think marketing agencies will need to develop to survive: 1. Models of leanness. Eric Ries brought the concept of the Lean Startup into our zeitgeist. Marketing agencies of the future will need to focus on many of the strategies that the lean movement engenders. Utility over content.

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