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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

Agile development laid the intellectual groundwork for the Lean movement in entrepreneurship, which further pushed business leaders to organize their business model and product development work around a series of experiments, testing critical hypothesis along the way. Maximize engineering productivity.

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The C-Suite Needs a Chief Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

The best CEOs are excellent at growing and running a company within a known business model. The Chief Entrepreneur will be responsible for managing a portfolio of entrepreneurs who experiment with new business models and value propositions. This is not a CTO role or a role that reports to the CEO. You persevere.

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

Harvard Business Review

The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. 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.