Development, Project and Time to Market

The Principles of Agile Planning

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The systems are sophisticated and project environments bigger and more distributed than ever before. After all, change is the only constant thing in Agile project management and development. After all, your needs and goal are bound to shift down the road, so why not plan ahead of time?

Agility

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Using AI and Machine Learning for Agile Development and Portfolio Management - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CA TECHNOLOGIES

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? For nearly two decades, many companies have utilized the principles within the Agile Manifesto to deliver faster time-to-market than traditional, or linear development models. Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics.

Agility

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IT on Steroids: The Benefits (and Risks) of Accelerating Technology

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

At the same time, the trend also heightens the expectations of CIOs'' internal customers to deliver better solutions at greater speed. A second accelerant of IT delivery is the iterative software development philosophy known as "agile development." Agile projects have focused on standard, non-critical systems.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

For each investment category, the generic critical success factors of time , cost , and quality will be different, requiring trade-offs to be made. Development approaches. Selecting project managers. So maintaining quality is the key criteria and cannot be compromised.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

implement frequent, rapid, project-specific evaluations instead of annual performance reviews). Today’s organizational strategies call for small, manageable units focused solely on specific technologies, end markets, or geographical areas.

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Given their capabilities, these entrepreneurs take a “do-it-yourself” approach and develop software to support organizational needs. Instead, IBM opened the APIs to Watson (there are now about 35 of them, with more being created all the time) and allowed third parties to use them for cognitive service applications.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Only around 20% of technologies funded by CVC&A grab enough attention of business units to start co-innovation pilot projects with portfolio startups. For those that do, the last step prior to acceptance into the program is to define a pilot project between the startup and a business unit.

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

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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Do You Have the IT For the Coming Digital Wave?

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Company and unit leaders need to ensure that IT is in a leading position on all key digital projects. Requirements and specifications are more flexible and developed within cross functional teams with constantly evolving business needs. New, more agile , software development tools and testing methods are utilized.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. ” Self-awareness: PMs must be self-aware so as to remain objective and avoid projecting their own preferences onto users of their products.

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How to Prioritize Your Company’s Projects

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Although we had been a market leader for many years, our new products had been launched several months later than the competition — in fact, our time to market had doubled over the previous three years. Behind that problem was a deeper one: We had more than 100 large projects (each worth over 500,000 euros) under way.

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Feeling Stumped? Innovation Software Can Help

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Analogous solutions are extremely beneficial to businesses because they reduce time to market, and they can get stalled projects moving again. But for a long time they weren't easy to find. This is why I wanted to develop a system that could make accidental discoveries a more predictable and regular occurrence.

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

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.

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Structure Your Global Team for Innovation

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. But single-location projects draw on a reservoir or shared tacit knowledge and trust that global projects lack. Companies that are smart about global innovation create an explicit role for senior executives in their projects.

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Structure Your Global Team for Innovation

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. But single-location projects draw on a reservoir or shared tacit knowledge and trust that global projects lack. Companies that are smart about global innovation create an explicit role for senior executives in their projects.

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Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage

The Key to Agile Success? Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CA TECHNOLOGIES

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

Read more from CA Technologies: Using AI and Machine Learning for Agile Development and Portfolio Management. For years, agile teams and organizations have measured success using process metrics – time to market, team throughput and cycle times, improved quality, and better predictability of output.

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To Innovate Like a Startup, Make Decisions Like VCs Do

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

Faster times to market, greater flexibility on the way there, and greater focus on the customer — common results of a successful lean implementation — are all positives. New ways of thinking about opportunities must be developed by the board as a team. Ask the right questions. Fund teams and problems, not ideas.

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The Principles of Agile Planning

Using AI and Machine Learning for Agile Development and Portfolio Management - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CA TECHNOLOGIES

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