Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2018

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Maximize engineering productivity.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 23, 2022

Before the pandemic, Jenny, the VP of Engineering, insisted that the engineering staff needed to work in the Boston area. The Engineering department uses six salary bands that reflect the person's level of influence, collaboration, and expertise. She expected that people would mostly work in the office, and they did.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

and Create Your Successful Agile Project. The closer to the left your products are, the more your managers might be open to changing their behaviors and the culture. TL; DR: “Stop making it harder” is a culture problem. The small-c culture in my team (we would call it a product team now) helped me learn a ton.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. Rather than debating the advantages of agile teams, why not start demonstrating them? Perhaps my journey to agile will help you figure out how to begin your own.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2022

Joanie, a new VP Engineering, joined the company a couple of weeks ago. Her boss, the CEO, wants to know how long it will take engineering to finish all the projects. Manage your environment or culture. See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.) Are you still working on this project? What can you do?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. They keep customers happier.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

Creating transparency: Value is created when data is made accessible to relevant stakeholders in a timely manner, for example, in manufacturing if data from research and development, engineering and manufacturing is integrated to enable concurrent engineering. This can significantly cut time in the market and improve quality.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Forum participants will have an opportunity to learn from inspirational project management leaders as well as attend masterclasses revealing the aspects of delivering sustainable projects, Agile transformation, application of technologies, and more. is the largest Agile conference in Central Europe. PMO London 2024 June, 18-19.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 10, 2022

Three Ongoing Performance Management Shifts to Get Right Ongoing performance management hinges on three specific shifts in approach: Creating a Culture that Encourages and Values Two-Way Feedback Open, honest, and thoughtful feedback is a critical factor in continuous improvement both for the individual employee and for the organization.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Yes, the premise of my Agile and Lean Program Management book.) I have never seen those three conditions in any non-agile project, but that could be my experience and not universal. That was much better than shipping because the lead engineer's wife threatened divorce. The tester is involved from the start of the project.

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Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

You can’t put new wine into old bottles, so whatever sophisticated technologies companies implement, without transforming people, culture, and processes in your company, even the most advanced of them will become a waste of money. . Read more: Digitalization of Aerospace Engineering: Main Difficulties and Ways to Overcome Them.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

Many of us know this intuitively: best practices are optimized for a particular place and time and don’t necessarily transfer well between cultures. That’s how it is with practices that don’t quite fit another cultural context. Managing Across Cultures. What Leadership Looks Like in Different Cultures.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

An organization should focus on creating a culture that supports new ideas and encourages testing them out without fear of failing. By adopting an agile work culture, organizations can focus on training, collaboration and constant improvement. Experiment – Random mutations are important.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

For Avaya, its lackluster NPS score reflected a simple truth: Innovation was the key to survival because it is the growth engine. It takes a major cultural shift in the company. Embrace Agile Methods for Responding to Customers. The willingness to experiment has to permeate the whole organization. The risk had been managed well.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

I lost that discussion and I managed a team called “continuing engineering,” CE. That image is from Create Your Succesful Agile Project.) The managers poo-poohed me. My concern: How would the “new” developers learn from their mistakes? Their job: fight the fires so development wasn't interrupted.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. But must employees, investors, and other constituents accept harmful employment cultures in fast-growth organizations until a crisis occurs?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

Based on my experience, here are three ways leaders can shift a company culture from a one-and-done focus on “training” employees in analytics to an “always on” focus on analytics adoption: Form competency centers.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

That means retailers must learn to compete head-on with Amazon in two fundamental capabilities: agile innovation and expense management. Amazon’s greatest competitive advantage is not its e-commerce network; it is its innovation engine. Agile innovation teams are small. A Quick Introduction to Agile Management.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

The ultimate playbook for developing brave leaders and courageous cultures. Leadership Engine by Noel Tichy. The answer, says Noel Tichy, is that winning companies possess a Leadership Engine , a proven system for creating dynamic leaders at every level. Dare to Lead by Brene Brown. Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

More recently, however, companies have widened their aperture, recognizing that success with AI and analytics requires not just data scientists but entire cross-functional, agile teams that include data engineers, data architects, data-visualization experts, and—perhaps most important—translators.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

Fast-iteration methodologies are a prerequisite, because talent tech has to be tailored to specific business needs and company context and culture. The job of leaders shifts from mandating change to fostering a culture of learning and growth. Leaders must foster a culture of learning. Let’s look at these one by one.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

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. Core Competencies. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

An aircraft engine is unlikely to become a purely digital product any time soon! We don’t expect Amazon or Microsoft or IBM to design, make, and market agricultural tractors, aircraft engines, or MR scanners. Companies like Rolls Royce design and manufacture jet engines. The answer is “yes.” Not, really.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. NASA focused on developing and monitoring precise engineering specifications. Adapting to change. NASA had to learn how to collaborate.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Once fun and collaborative workplace cultures can easily become a drag of meetings. Over at WorkLab (a Microsoft-powered news hub for new work) scientists, engineers, and business leaders unravel the facts, trends, and new narratives changing the work environment. How can the effective meeting culture be optimized?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. “Once, you needed mechanical engineers. Today, there’s a greater need for software engineers because cars are computers more than anything else.” Gerald Lord/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

In these activities, speed of innovation is critical, and the rallying cry should be autonomy, small teams, and organizational agility. Its more than 2,000 employees are organized into agile teams, called squads, which are self-organizing, cross-functional, and colocated. Here, too, the culture acts as a support.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

The birds coordinate themselves with remarkable agility to find food and avoid attacks. The Agile Software movement has general principles that apply universally, and specific principles for practices like Kanban and scrum. Like many other companies, Current saw the need to evolve its company culture.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Volkswagen’s software that allowed diesel engines in its vehicles to cheat on emissions tests is another case of a top-down fixed strategy that suffered in implementation. Meanwhile, engineers had developed software to fool the regulators — postponing the inevitable. To help VW stand out and win in the U.S.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The key elements are (1) startups with fully dedicated cofounders, (2) a growth board of investors, and (3) an agile team focused on capturing learnings, building capabilities, and clearing roadblocks. Test Like an Entrepreneur (Not an Engineer). Founders focus on finding new markets to solve existing but underserved problems.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

But sustainable growth relies on developing a culture of constant innovation in everything the company does. This kind of innovation often is difficult for traditional companies to understand. Not every company can (or should) reinvent its business model.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

Companies deploying IoT successfully in industrial sectors such as manufacturing, oil and gas, mining, and transportation are seeking multiple agile partners with open IP architectures to co-create solutions. Second, implement a culture of innovation across all grades, functions, and regions. How the best companies get up to speed.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

This program gives employees across all disciplines and levels tools to educate them on the company, its culture, products and services, and how they solve its customer’s needs. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The model has been used in other industries and has parallels to the “teams of teams” approach in the agile method of operating that has become so popular. Team members have varied experience from industrial engineers to nurses and physicians, and a physician has responsibility for the team.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Once you have a sense of the aspiring manager’s interest level and past experience, you need to get a handle on her “understanding of the organization—its culture, its needs, and where she thinks it’s going,” says Ranieri. “Maybe you will learn something.” Don’t. Over time, Erick watched Rob.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2016

My workshops are designed with an exponential mindset to generate new ways of thinking about marketing, culture and strategy. Grow: Agility and Control. But the addition of too many people or too many resources can “flood the engine” of growth. I see this consistently on a micro scale in my own work.

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