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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InnovationManagement

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Agile is employed within Stage-Gate for new-product development by manufacturers with positive performance results; but must be adjusted from the software version of Agile – the result: the emergent Agile-Stage-Gate hybrid model.

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etventure

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Agile development has been around since the 90s, and became popular shortly after the turn of the millennium, when the Manifesto for Agile Software Development was formulated and signed by Kent Beck and 16 fellow software developers. If it is not applied properly, agile development can easily turn into chaos!

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Planview

AUGUST 23, 2022

Tackling CASE and IoT auto innovations with speed requires product portfolio management insights that do the following: Understand the ROI of R&D efforts to know where to best focus investments. Pinpoint investment opportunities that connect software development’s best practices to speed production.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How can design thinking help with product development? The goal is to come up with a solution that meets the user’s needs and is feasible to implement. This helps to ensure that the solution meets the user’s needs and addresses their pain points. What is the difference between design thinking and Lean UX?

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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

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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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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CorporateIntel

APRIL 1, 2012

A software bug caused it to be withdrawn. There is no argument that we live in a world of staggering speed, where competitors race to meet customer needs and time to market matters. I have often heard the mantra from development teams: “Better, Faster, Cheaper—we can give you any two and a half.” A bug killed an IPO?

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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. ” The program manager was part of the Engineering department.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. In Stage 3 an Innovation Outpost creates a product development group to bring to market the solution(s) (a product or service) to the challenge(s) that led to the establishment of the Outpost in the first place. This is where the rubber meets the road.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. In Stage 3 an Innovation Outpost creates a product development group to bring to market the solution(s) (a product or service) to the challenge(s) that led to the establishment of the Outpost in the first place. This is where the rubber meets the road.

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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. Prioritized Resources – MVPs (of Viable Minimum Product) are built, for example, to obtain a lean, first version of the product; and ensure that it meets customer needs while providing value to users.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 8, 2024

As a result, they failed to certify me without communicating or consulting with me directly, despite my meeting all of the course evaluation criteria and having more than 10,000 hours of facilitation and more than 1,000 hours of coaching experience on the people side of change.

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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. He starts by contacting his previous startup’s founder, Peter, who readily agrees to meet with Steve. And he works alone.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. In Stage 3 an Innovation Outpost creates a product development group to bring to market the solution(s) (a product or service) to the challenge(s) that led to the establishment of the Outpost in the first place. This is where the rubber meets the road.

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Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation Disruption 40

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. In Stage 3 an Innovation Outpost creates a product development group to bring to market the solution(s) (a product or service) to the challenge(s) that led to the establishment of the Outpost in the first place. This is where the rubber meets the road.

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Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation Disruption 35

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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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. The results?

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Collective Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2017

It should be reinforced at every proposal, every meeting and every decision. Having the data is not enough if no one uses it. The culture of making business decisions based on metrics must come from the very top. Every arguement should be followed by supporting facts that everyone has access to.

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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

JUNE 3, 2011

Lie #2: Product developer, "We'll be ready to ship in six months.". Product developers have every intention of finishing development on time, but invariably things take longer and cost more than people projected. The easiest way to address this lie is to change the development paradigm.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

Harnessing all this technology — the computing, the motion control, the sensing — poses a huge challenge, but rising levels of abstraction are giving product designers the tools to meet it. “Software can be updated, but hardware is fixed,” one of the engineers explained about the ultimate over-the-air update.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. Competing in the Future. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy.

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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. Family Meetings. This helps reinforce positive behaviors. Daily Check-ins.

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Project Management Agile Meeting 15

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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Change Management Software Technology 15

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. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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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. The new product team knew they needed to engage their suppliers sooner in the product development process, and also in a more continuously ongoing way.

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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 8, 2017

After a series of meetings with Silicon Valley stalwarts like Google, Apple, and Amazon, we decided to develop our own IoT software and hired the people who could help us do it. The traditional business model is based on identifying a need and meeting it, or defining a problem and solving it.

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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. Systematic Inc., The CEO and his leadership team share a joint table.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Nearly every business leader I meet fears being overcome by tech-savvy upstarts. Explorers work in teams like R&D, customer insights, or product development. This model is most common in software development teams, where UX designers may be involved in both early user research and long-term management of the product.

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