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Speed Up Your Product Development Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

If a test finds problems, it can tell developers whom to contact to resolve them – directly, without using middle managers. Google combines automated testing with a related process that requires a human peer to review code changes. Operations Product development Risk management'

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Better Ways of Thinking About Risks

Harvard Business Review

The set of such methods, tested by peer review of their scientific foundations and success with their application, is actually quite small — and familiar to most business school graduates. It includes decision analysis, game theory, and operations research.

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Most Work Conflicts Aren’t Due to Personality

Harvard Business Review

For example, if I’m a trader and you’re in risk management, there is a fundamental difference in our perspectives and priorities. To do this, ask and discuss the question: “If it weren’t the two of us in these roles, what conflict might be expected of any two people in these roles?”