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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Maximize engineering productivity.

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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

Organizations in every industry and geography are increasingly indebted to external talent, whom we term agile talent , to augment their resources in strategic areas. The benefits are substantial: Agile talent provides organizations with greater flexibility, speed, and competitive insight. Here’s the problem. Some are excellent.

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Which U.S. Companies Are Doing the Most R&D in China and India?

Harvard Business Review

Which companies allocate the highest proportion of that budget to engineering in China and India, specifically? And what drives their success with these global engineering initiatives? Six selected insights are presented here, tempered with our own experience in many years of consulting with global engineering initiatives.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Core Competencies. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

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To Drive Digital Transformation, Focus on People

Strategy Driven

We need this kind of leadership from top to bottom on in our enterprises: on each team, in each role, at every level; whether organized around project or products, agile scrum or lean start-up; whether teams are fully co-located or spread out globally; whether focused on apps, apis, or IoT. The results will be amazing, rewarding, and fun.

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business Review

Companies that lacked experience with lean methodologies had to be trained to operate as agile teams in order to define a specific use case for the technology. One CTO we spoke to tells a story about an AI project that “hit the wall” despite a sequence of green lights. Leaders must foster a culture of learning.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

In response to the rapid advance of cloud computing, IBM’s software engineering groups embraced the Agile development method – with teams focused on incremental delivery of new capabilities every few weeks or months. To the engineers, the design thinking process seemed like a return to the Waterfall method. .”