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Agile Project Manager, Scrum Master, or Product Owner?

Johanna Rothman

They more often use flow with various cadences of planning, demos, and retrospectives. That's now, where I rarely see an agile culture. Maybe if I saw an agile culture we wouldn't need that separation.). I prefer to not make the various names overloaded operators , but that might be me.

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What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like

Harvard Business

When organizations lack a formal innovation pipeline process, project approvals tend to be based on who has the best demo or slides, or who lobbies the hardest. Organizational debt is all the people and culture compromises made to “just get it done” in the early stages of an innovation project.

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Why Visionary CEOs Never Have Visionary Successors

Harvard Business

The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). Sixteen years later, that dominance is looking threadbare.

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Different Cultures See Deadlines Differently

Harvard Business

We all have the tendency to look at other cultures through the lens of our own. In my experience working and teaching across cultures, I’ve noticed one important area where this frequently causes conflicts: deadlines. Western cultures tend to view time as linear , with a definitive beginning and end. Pamela Hinds.

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