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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

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. Maximize engineering productivity. Run more experiments.

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How to Support Employees’ Learning Goals While Getting Day-to-Day Stuff Done

Harvard Business Review

You’re not cut out for engineering. But I’ve learned key lessons to help managers turn lofty goals — such as making learning and development a central pillar of the workday — into real actions that mitigate damage to, and even help strengthen, the bottom line. You’re not a data scientist. Here’s how.

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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

We have a unique perch from which to observe how well organizations are “tuned” to create a productive and positive work environment for freelancers and other agile talent. One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers. Broaden the role of your “chiefs.”

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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. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Core Competencies.

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To Drive Digital Transformation, Focus on People

Strategy Driven

These revolutionary developments required equally revolutionary changes, including more truly global firms, whole new industries, new ways of organizing enterprises (think first GM and then GE), new ways of working (email, virtual global teams), and more. We need it whether we are transforming, adding to, or combining a digitized environment.

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How IT Professionals Can Embrace the Serendipity Economy

Harvard Business Review

A presentation developed for a conference does not produce much value until it is actually presented, an event which may occur weeks or months after the document is completed. In collaborations systems, for instance, don''t overly engineer processes so that they constrain a system''s ability to adapt. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

Trouble was, the launch violated eBay’s well-established corporate project-development processes. Developing the Global Leader. “He allowed both ideas to be developed and tested enough, to learn and not combine them right away,” Hill says. A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections.