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Enhancing Software Quality: The Benefits of Continuous Testing

Strategy Driven

Reduced Time-to-Market In addition to enhanced software quality, the advantages of continuous testing described above also contribute to faster product releases. This, in turn, makes companies more responsive to market changes and increases their adaptability to newly emerging demands.

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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business Review

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. What can I do?”

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business Review

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. Related Video.

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The Mindset Your Company Needs to Grow Organically

Harvard Business Review

Companies dedicate vast amounts of time, money, and effort to organic growth. The problem is that many companies have the wrong “operating system” for organic growth. One of the ways the financial institution was able to accelerate its time to market was by launching multiple experiments simultaneously.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Key operational investments sustain existing business operations, helping to avoid any disadvantage. Executives can sometimes struggle differentiating between key operational and support investments.

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NewTV Is the Antithesis of a Lean Startup. Can It Work?

Harvard Business Review

Startups now had tools that sped up the search for customers, reduced time to market, and slashed the cost of development. Every startup is in a race against time. It has to find product-market fit before running out of cash. Seize the Cash. Lean makes sense when capital is scarce and when you need to keep burn rates low.

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Do You Have the IT For the Coming Digital Wave?

Harvard Business Review

IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies. It requires new modes of operation. New, more agile , software development tools and testing methods are utilized.

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