Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

Unfortunately, the enthusiasm I had for my new job waned after six months when an executive was appointed Head of Product Development—who insisted he knew SCRUM 1 better than anybody. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How can I learn design thinking? How can design thinking help with product development? How can I learn design thinking? These courses typically cover the key concepts and steps of the design thinking process, and may include hands-on exercises and projects to apply what you have learned.

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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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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

BECOMING PROACTIVE ABOUT CUSTOMER NEEDS NCARB’s programming teams, already skilled in using agile work prioritization techniques , took part in Moves the Needle’s Lean Innovation Sprint to learn how to determine what work should be on its list, based on proactive and deep understanding of their customer.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The software development methodologies and organizational design principles harnessed by digital natives are well documented. In this study covering thousands of value streams under management, we baselined the capacity of enterprise organizations’ value streams by measuring the flow of value through software development tools (e.g.,

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 15, 2009

He shares the factors that influence how effective various prototyping methodologies will be and how to choose wisely; what level of effort you will need to invest in prototyping in order to get useful feedback; and how to permanently integrate prototyping into your software development process in a way that is effective for your organization.

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Boxes and Arrows

JUNE 29, 2009

The documentation needs are often based on the size of the project, launch date, team dynamics, audience, technology, and the product development process. Description of the Problem There are many product development processes and one that has garnered much attention is agile.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Like many others, I invested time in isolation during the pandemic to engage in various online learning programs. It was a disastrous learning experience, verifying my perception of the Agile community’s focus on a prescriptive rules-driven process to agility.

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Innov8rs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This synchronized system is called InnovationOps, which marks the next phase of evolution of innovation management in large organizations- like DevOps that was coined in 2009, to operationalize software development. The people doing your innovation jobs should have platforms to share knowledge and learnings.

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Huub Rutten

MAY 4, 2021

In my daily practices of developing innovation management methods and software I cannot avoid the term anymore: nearly every development methodology or project management methodology uses EPICS as a kind of starting point for a development project. But not a narrative anymore.

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Huub Rutten

MAY 4, 2021

In my daily practices of developing innovation management methods and software I cannot avoid the term anymore: nearly every development methodology or project management methodology uses EPICS as a kind of starting point for a development project. But not a narrative anymore.

Software Review 52

Software Review Agile Software Developers Software Development 52

Huub Rutten

MAY 4, 2021

In my daily practices of developing innovation management methods and software I cannot avoid the term anymore: nearly every development methodology or project management methodology uses EPICS as a kind of starting point for a development project. But not a narrative anymore.

Software Review 52

Software Review Agile Software Developers Software Development 52

Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

It was their job to ensure all aspects of the product development process were aligned and working together. Program management was steeped in technical processes, but also considered how product decisions would impact the product’s end users. They have a broad range of skills and are willing to learn more.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

There’s nothing more wasteful than having an Innovation Outpost reporting on disruption heading for the company’s core business (autonomous vehicles, machine learning, Virtual Reality, Cloud, Internet of Things, et al.) Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. What solution are we productizing? Lessons Learned.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

There’s nothing more wasteful than having an Innovation Outpost reporting on disruption heading for the company’s core business (autonomous vehicles, machine learning, Virtual Reality, Cloud, Internet of Things, et al.) Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. What solution are we productizing? Lessons Learned.

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Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation Disruption 56

mjvinnovation

JULY 27, 2020

Companies with tight schedules and budgets must deal with the reality that product development may not be fast or cheap. Sizing investment returns (of time, money, and effort) is critical in product development projects. Use this document as a guide to the product team and keep everyone working towards the same goal.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

There’s nothing more wasteful than having an Innovation Outpost reporting on disruption heading for the company’s core business (autonomous vehicles, machine learning, Virtual Reality, Cloud, Internet of Things, et al.) Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. What solution are we productizing? Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

And take what it learns and regularly update the corporate engineering, strategy, VC groups and business unit heads, on technology and market shifts. Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. Is corporate willing to give both the financial and organizational support for product development in the Innovation Cluster?

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Leanstack

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

A year later, Steve is still building his product. He has no product revenue and relies on part-time freelancing work to fund his product development. Steve is operating like an Artist and is primarily driven by his love for his product (solution). And he works alone.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

Here's a case in point: In 2004, my HBS colleague Gary Pisano and I conducted a project at a leading manufacturer of highly sophisticated production equipment for the electronics industry, which I'll call "Exotech." Like many companies, Exotech struggled with serious time delays in its product-development projects.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. Iterative and incremental development methods were also a major contributor to the successful creation of the X-15 hypersonic jet in the 1950s. They keep customers happier. They enjoy their work more.

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Collective Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2017

An engaged social media is an incredible tool to learn about customers needs and problems. It combines: data mining, statistics, modeling, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to give you the clearest view of the future. How many exit in each part of the process and which steps produce the most pain and can be improved?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

My Harvard Business Review article with Procter & Gamble Chief Officer Bruce Brown, " How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate ," describes how P&G uses "transaction learning experiments" to try to more accurately assess the demand of new-to-the-world ideas. Lie #2: Product developer, "We'll be ready to ship in six months.".

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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

MAY 17, 2016

A team typically consists of three to seven people who have strong software engineering, product management, testing, and marketing skills. They require uncommon teamwork between marketing-oriented product managers and software developers with a technical orientation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

It will ease the way for companies launching and updating digital products, but it presents steep new learning curves that companies will have to master if they are to be successful. What I’m referring to is the migration of functionality from hardware to software. Software development will be more complex.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2015

An entrepreneur can rent computing capacity from Amazon Web Services, find skilled designers via eLance, accelerate software development with GitHub, place targeted advertisements on Google or Facebook, and tap into a legion of contract manufacturers. This kind of learning can happen very quickly.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Would the traditional host organization reject the new software center as an alien entity? Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. You have a hypothesis, you try it, and learn.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. At their training center in Louisville, they bounced ideas and product prototypes off of retail salespeople who came to learn about GE’s products.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

. “It’s already changing organizations, by moving IT from a cost center to something with a place at the table in a lot of different meetings,” said Chris Jackson, head of cloud platforms at Pearson, a global learning company. Organizational functions blur as processes become increasingly iterative.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

More and more companies are adopting software and product development frameworks like Agile , Scrum , and Kanban — which promote quick, iterative, lean production — to deliver higher quality products, faster. It’s basically a reflection technique for learning and quickly getting closure.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Test to learn. The New Urban Mechanics will only, initially, pursue opportunities that can be tackled with a small team and lean software development. Free access to salespeople, manufacturing capacity and marketing dollars all can inhibit the generation of sustainable business models.

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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. Agile espouses short cycles, regular reflection, and course correction based on evidence collected during the software production process.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Explorers work in teams like R&D, customer insights, or product development. The new team then risks moving on without absorbing the learning of their predecessors. That person then acts as a connector, knowing all of the avenues already explored and all of the learning gained.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

Traditional manufacturing is extremely rewarding, but it takes an incredible amount of time and money to develop new products and it’s virtually impossible to accelerate the process without sacrificing quality. Software, in contrast, is incredibly fast. Our company is actively taking steps in that direction.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

At the enterprise level, think of all of your corporate initiatives as a backlog, just like software developers think of future product features as a backlog. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005. Time-box your work and make extensive use of test-and-learn techniques.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Today, we’ll talk with IBM’s Max De Ycaza about how IBM’s largest business unit, the $40 billion Global Technology Services unit, is helping clients learn from this journey. Where our clients struggle and where we see challenges is not in the area of new product development. Max, thanks for joining us today.

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