Epicflow

JULY 12, 2022

During the recent decade, companies have been making efforts to transform their business processes and culture to turn into data-driven organizations. . At the same time, the talent component shouldn’t be left aside: data alone cannot lead companies to success without human expertise to use in an efficient way. . Cultural challenges.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

McKinsey & Company discovered that data-driven firms are 23 times more likely to acquire customers , six times more likely to retain them, and 19 times more likely to be profitable than their counterparts without a data-driven culture. However, it's crucial to have a consistent and efficient method for tracking progress.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For years, managers have been trying to find ways to make software product development faster and easier. Team learning time requires that the team —not just the managers—think in flow efficiency. A cultural challenge, for sure. As an industry, we've tried tons of things. That was the precursor to Big Design Up Front.)

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 15, 2019

If you take the meaning, and not the words behind the imperatives, you see the need for a culture change. If you are not a software person by training, you might think typing is the thing we need to optimize for in software. Typing is the easiest part of writing software. The Hard Part of Software is the Learning.

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Emerson Consulting Group

JANUARY 20, 2021

Efficiency in business comes down to reaching goals with the highest degree of quality and speed possible. When workflow breaks down and this efficiency fails, it’s worth questioning why it happened and how to prevent it in the future. If the hands and feet, eyes and ears don’t coordinate, the body can’t move efficiently.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve, a software development manager, thought John was a “10x” developer. You don't want to reinforce resource efficiency, even though you rewarded the person for that all along. Instead, you want to reinforce flow efficiency. Discuss why you want flow efficiency and overall lower cycle time.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 11, 2022

As long as change management is a comprehensive process, its assessment should cover multiple dimensions: how efficient the established process is, how people feel about transformations, what business outcomes have been achieved, etc. Assessing people’s attitude and culture . Culture mapping. Analysis based on the ADKAR model.

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Kraft Kennedy

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The rules and procedures that govern how organizations use technology to conduct business, Information technology (IT) policies are crucial to security, efficiency and productivity and shouldn’t be considered optional, static or one-size-fits all.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2018

Now it’s trying to move from a software platform to a robotics lab to build self-driving cars. They discovered that one country was 16% percent more efficient than the average of the rest of the countries: they got the same results in 71 fewer person-hours per month and with 40 fewer people involved each month.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Successful project delivery is usually a result of efficient management of both workflow and resources. What do you need to know to manage project resources with maximum efficiency? What do you need to know to manage project resources with maximum efficiency? The results of efficient resource management are as follows: .

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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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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The managers reinforce people as experts, which is an example of resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. We create more disengagement the more we create a system where people question why, where managers don't encourage innovation from people, and where we use resource efficiency. That disengagement occurs in many ways.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Bottom-line, companies with people-first culture led by Servant Leadership principles outperform their competitors. However, employees may struggle to prioritize tasks and allocate their time efficiently. Leverage Technology: Provide remote workers with the necessary tools and technology to perform their tasks efficiently.

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Asamby Consulting

JULY 25, 2022

How do people collaborate, what's our culture like? Processes The quality of your processes determines how efficient and stable your execution will be. Do all departments work with efficient software tools? Do we have an effective meeting culture ? How good am I in acquiring and onboarding new talent when needed?

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Epicflow

JANUARY 17, 2022

In turn, managing multiple projects involves dealing with dependencies between them and maximum efficient utilization of shared resources, so that you won’t only have a sum of successful projects, but a successful business. . So, the new projects in the A&D companies are expected to be piling up every now and then.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. See the Flow Efficiency series.) See Three Collaboration Secrets to Create Your Agile Culture.) Tip 3: Reduce the Team's WIP.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

This post is about what you can do to create an agile culture, regardless of where you are in the organization. BTW: One more thing about an agile culture: Many of the people I spoke with at the conference are convinced they need to “scale.” And, they change the culture to one that supports agile approaches.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

Each person works in resource efficiency, focused on their deliverables. When I was a software developer, I loved communing with the machine and solving problems with code. Assuming they work with the team, they already started a culture of collaboration. No one sees the big picture. I had to learn to collaborate. I'm not alone.

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PM Alliance

JANUARY 7, 2022

User-friendly dashboards are a good option to help stakeholders filter, sort, and manipulate data so they can quickly find the reports they need without learning a new software platform. It can also be a useful option to trim travel expenses and minimize downtime, further enabling cost efficiency and productivity.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

There are at least two systems of work we need to change: The management system and the culture of management. How the teams work and their team culture. I’ve noticed these challenges in companies who want to move to a more product-oriented approach: The reward system rewards resource efficiency, not flow efficiency.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Because your context is unique to you, your team, project, product, and culture. And, with any luck, nudges the culture in a good direction for your team, project, and product. Why Do You Want an Agile Culture for Your Product? Notice I said the culture is for this particular product. What do you need?

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Melissa Agnes

JANUARY 18, 2017

One important aspect of your organization’s successful crisis management, is being able to reach out to, and communicate with, all impacted and relevant stakeholders, in a timely and efficient fashion. Image Credit: Shutterstock / Rawpixel.com.

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BCG

AUGUST 17, 2016

Agile development has gone mainstream, but the software development methodology that helped hundreds of Silicon Valley startups explode onto the scene has delivered decidedly mixed results for more traditional organizations. Article Wednesday, August 17, 2016. In most cases, there is a critical point of failure: the product owner.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. See the Flow Efficiency series.) See Three Collaboration Secrets to Create Your Agile Culture.) Tip 3: Reduce the Team's WIP.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

It also puts a fundamental question back on the agendas of CEOs in other industries: Will software eat the world, as Marc Andreessen famously quipped? The question really is: Can digital natives develop software-enabled solutions that siphon off significant value from industrial hardware? The answer is “yes.”

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

“Data scientists, fast computers, and advanced software are replacing traditional decision-making processes and disrupting tried-and trusted traditional consulting methodologies, with Big Data being one of the main forces of disruption” ( Tras, 2015 ). The words “big data” have become a “buzzword” in the business industry.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2021

That disconnect occurs when managers, HR, everyone focuses on resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. If we ask people to work in flow efficiency, how can we possibly reward them on resource efficiency? First two jobs: software developer plus project management responsibilities. What we encourage in the work.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Agile espouses short cycles, regular reflection, and course correction based on evidence collected during the software production process.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Is the target company’s culture very different? cultural integration, regulation, etc.)? Indeed IBM has a presence in the largest software markets in the world (e.g. Jason Oh is a management consultant at Novantas with expertise in scaling profitability and improving business efficiency for financial institutions.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2017

To make matters worse, my findings indicated that when the supervisor was copied in often, employees felt less trusted, and this feeling automatically led them to infer that the organizational culture must be low in trust overall, fostering a culture of fear and low psychological safety.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Agility Evolution Agile transformation represents an ongoing effort to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the organization. Does your culture enable problem-solving/exploration? The post 7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024 appeared first on Progressus Software.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

Let me tell you, our large enterprise clients’ processes are highly dependent upon software. We know that the pace of change around software is lightning-fast. Driving digital transformation really means driving rapid, efficient, and high-ROI responses to those changes. Max De Ycaza, IBM. Angelia Herrin, host.

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Progressus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Progressus Software, the first project accounting app built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, launches Project Multi-Company feature on Microsoft AppSource. This milestone was achieved through a strategic partnership with Binary Stream, a leading provider of scalable software solutions.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Because I'd measured and observed a ton about software projects before I consulted, I knew that we could stabilize the project if we knew where the defects were and if we could document that knowledge. The more the requirements change, the more pressure people feel to start more work.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 8, 2017

It took another month for the software to be ready.). In addition, see the flow efficiency series. .” I told him that unless he was willing to reimburse me my entire vacation money and spend the money for me to rebook without my friends, I was not going to change my vacation. I took my vacation. (It

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

For years, we've used several metaphors to describe software product development: People-based metaphors, such as: Man-weeks for all the humans working on a project or a product.

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Peter Stark

JUNE 30, 2018

That means that, as a leader, if I want this type of culture, I need to communicate well daily and be very focused on being inclusive with information regarding any change. Be focused on the goal: Some of our clients are currently going through software upgrades. Sell people on the problems, not the solutions.

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