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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

We then enrolled them in online courses teaching necessary job and technical skills, like computer science fundamentals, complex problem solving, group collaboration, agile methodology, effective written communication, and so on. We selected 15 people from that group who demonstrated strong work ethic, grit, and excitement for the program.

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From meeting-heavy to essential meetings only

Asamby Consulting

In early 2022, we conducted retrospectives for past client work (as you do in an agile team), and we've also found this pattern. An example of an observable behavior would be a person switching off the video (camera) in a remote meeting. We work mainly with remote only or hybrid businesses. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

Each outbound communication is measured individually for immediate ROI. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. These members are 2.6 times more likely to stay with Kaiser Permanente two years later.

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How Learning and Development Are Becoming More Agile

Harvard Business

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. For example, Qualcomm includes its agile talent when the team is in training.

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