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

Harvard Business Review

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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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

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. These core competencies are the baseline for any PM and the best PMs hone these skills over years of defining, shipping, and iterating on products.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

Yet companies across all sectors are trying to accelerate innovation so that they can break free from low-growth markets, differentiate, and sustain competitive advantage. Innovation cycles speed up and time-to-market goes down, and the resulting changes in the value chain compound customer demand for quality.

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

Harvard Business Review

About two-thirds of agile practitioners report higher team morale, increased productivity, greater ability to manage changing priorities, and faster time to market than they were experiencing before. Develop personal, habitual agility. Develop team agility. So, take the initiative. I felt happier and more in control.

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Do You Have the IT For the Coming Digital Wave?

Harvard Business Review

Requirements and specifications are more flexible and developed within cross functional teams with constantly evolving business needs. Service delivery is marked by a ''good enough'' approach to error tolerance, relying more on rapid iterations and short cycle times. They drive innovation and speed up time to market.

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Team Chemistry Is the New Holy Grail of Performance Analytics

Harvard Business Review

“Makes teams better” is fast-becoming both an essential ingredient to getting hired and a mission-critical skill-set worth measuring. How do you identify, blend, develop, train and coach a mix of talents into wholes measurably greater than the sum of their parts? Sports teams, of course, compete in physical time and space.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

” So GE has hired 1,000 software engineers and data scientists to provide enhanced software and analytical skills across GE’s many businesses. Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company.