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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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? For nearly two decades, many companies have utilized the principles within the Agile Manifesto to deliver faster time-to-market than traditional, or linear development models. Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics.

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Agile Development Management Software 105

Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Companies rely on Learning & Development (L&D) programs – especially eLearning – to stay competitive as industries change. However, the actual value of these learning and development programs lies not just in their immediate impact but in their long-term effects on business performance driven by employee learning.

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Metrics ROI Training Training 147

Epicflow

JUNE 8, 2022

Agile has become the most popular methodology in recent years and has proven its efficiency for millions of companies already so nobody has any doubts about it today. Being agile means being flexible enough to adequately and timely react to any alterations of your project environment and any external changes that may happen at any time.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

In Today’s Digital Economy, Agile Practices Can’t Be Limited to Just the IT and Development Realms. By Surya Panditi, SVP and GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. Agile practices have a vital part to play in the rapid delivery and continuous maintenance of software-driven products and services.

Agile 87

Agile Survey Company Data 87

Johanna Rothman

JULY 29, 2021

The teams want to use an agile approach so they can incorporate learning. The managers might even think this is roadmap reflects an agile approach. There's nothing about this roadmap that's agile. You can decide if you need an agile approach. See What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? What can you do?

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Efficient product portfolio management allows a company to be agile and respond to arising market demands. As distinct from a project, a product doesn’t have a defined end date and is constantly under development to meet changing market demands. . risk and uncertainty management, progress analysis and reporting.

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Productivity Management Resources Software 245

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. (I I didn't like what I saw at the Agile 2019 conference.) This part is about what “Agile” or “agile” means. I understand that people want what they perceive as the value “Agile” will bring them. Why a Manifesto?

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

CEB reports that the average organization has undergone five enterprise-wide changes in the past three years and 73% expect change to accelerate (URL: [link] ). In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Change agility requires an answer to the question “Why?”,

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

Avoiding the Multiple Destination Trap with Tracking Monitoring and Reporting: As a leader, it can be challenging to ensure that everyone in your organization is on the same page when it comes to your strategic goals. Are you having a strategy meeting soon? Get our free 2-Day strategic planning agenda.

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Report Data Strategy Strategy 96

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 30, 2022

While this distributor reports monthly income, they only pay once a quarter. This is an agile way of working that does not require a lot planning and preparation. The series: How I Manage My Product Development: Ease with Continuous Flow (Day 1). And the writing workshop will make more money sooner than the book will.

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Development Productivity Video Agile 98

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

At a high level, a competency center is a collection of domain experts who are given a goal to improve agility, foster innovation, establish best practices, provide training (and mentoring), and be a communications engine. What reports do we need? Create a leadership and development portal. What data is missing?),

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Training Training Data Agile 130

Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

The dispatch included disturbing and potentially illegal managerial activities, such as Fowler’s boss telling her she could be fired for reporting the behaviors. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

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Recruiting Recruitment Finance Agile 143

Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

Automating routine tasks AI can automate a number of project manager’s tasks, especially those that require work with large amounts of data, e.g., creating schedules and generating reports. According to the report, power skills involve: communication, problem-solving, collaborative leadership, and strategic thinking.

Trends 130

Trends Management Emotional Intelligence Software 130

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. The “Typical Product Development Organization” shows the kind of organization I see most often. The various development directors correspond to the various horizontal layers in the product. See Your Current Organization.

Productivity 74

Productivity Agile Culture Efficiency 74

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. “For most of the last half-century — 84 percent of the time since 1966 — average wages have grown more slowly than would be predicted based on productivity and inflation growth,” The New York Times reported.

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Energy Agile Productivity Talent 134

Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

While working as a director of learning and organization development at Google, eBay and J.P. million employees globally over a 12-year period found, for example, that while 63% of extremely stressed employees reported above-average productivity, this number rises significantly to 87% amongst those who say they are not at all stressed.

Energy 132

Energy Agile Survey Training 132

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 31, 2017

You might want “Reports” in your product. Reports often include searching by some form of type. You might want: Reports by product. Reports by geography. Reports by customer or customer type. You might even want to restrict certain types of reports depending on the user. Here’s an example.

Agile 77

Agile Report Productivity Data 77

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 1, 2018

It’s From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver. ” That one chapter might be all you need to create a successful distributed agile team. And, if you’ll be at Agile 2018, we will pair-deliver You Have to Say More There , an experience report. We rearranged the entire book.

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Comatch

JANUARY 30, 2023

With the development of new technologies like AI and Machine Learning, the pressure to acquire digital skills has never been so high. If you want to stand out to your clients, investing time in developing technical skills and keeping up with the latest trends is essential. Agility is therefore a core skill that you should work on.

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Consulting Agile Trends Industry 98

Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

For example, Alibaba, a leading Chinese e-commerce company, could conduct sentiment analysis of customer reviews of individual products and services, and use these insights to modify existing products and develop new ones. This data-driven approach can enhance agility and enable businesses to respond in real time in rapidly changing markets.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

One of Rochet’s first tasks was to create a leadership development program that equipped executives with the knowledge, mindset, and ways of working the company would need to grow in the digital age. Help Employees Embrace Agility. Agility is key to success when undertaking digital transformations.

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Media Fashion Agile Sales 136

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. Across those fundamentals, eight key topics are reported every day. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.”

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System Healthcare Metrics Report 130

Tom Spencer

MAY 13, 2022

It was an enriching experience, and the skills developed during this process could be useful in a corporate environment. That is why business students can benefit from producing research and learning how to critically analyse reports. Many large firms have divisions dedicated to research, but those divisions are expensive to maintain.

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Analysis Agile Research Data 88

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

. “I’m just stressed,” he says, pulling out laptop his to finish a report. These experiments also revealed that over time those who wrote about their feelings began to develop insights into what those feelings meant (or didn’t mean!), If you want to assess your own Emotional Agility, here is a link to a quiz.)

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Agile Examples Exercises Construction 133

Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

We call this subset of freelancers who do strategic work in companies or nonprofit organizations agile talent. Many of the benefits of agile talent have been widely reported. Tapping into your outside experts to help in the development of internal employees is a valuable way to address the needs of both.

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Agile Talent Development Nonprofit 70

Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

Becoming a competent and sought-after project manager is impossible without constant professional development. The essays are based on Scott Berkun’s work experience as a project manager at Microsoft, which however doesn’t mean that his guidelines will be useful for software development projects only.

Management 29

Management Handbook Case Study Case Studies 29

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Customers today are not just consumers; they are also creators, developing content and ideas — and encountering challenges — right along with you. Later, Brocade followed up with these customers to report on progress against these objectives. Everyone likes to talk about being “customer-centric.” The results?

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Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 134

Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2018

” Reporter Pendarvis Harshaw detailed how presumably white members were using Nextdoor’s crime and safety forum to report “suspicious” activities by African Americans and Latinos. Their first attempt at fixing the problem was simply to add a report racial profiling button. ” Insight Center.

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Agile Data Report Guidelines 71

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

To pilot this new approach, Monash Health established the new Agile Psychological Medicine Clinics (aPM Clinics). Patients visiting the clinics have on average reported high overall satisfaction levels (96%) with their work, dialogue, and relationship with their therapist. The results from the experiment are encouraging.

Agile 131

Agile Healthcare Software Data 131

Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

The ones that persisted are incredibly well-positioned today, having transformed their business processes and enabled a level of agility that competitors cannot easily mimic. For example, early efforts of companies developing chatbots for Facebook’s Messenger platform saw 70% failure rates in handling user requests.

Insurance 128

Insurance Insurance Video Training 128

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

By establishing clear lines of responsibility and providing a framework for decision-making, effective governance can increase information flow, enhance collaboration, and accelerate the speed of organizational decision making, thereby boosting organisational agility, reducing risk, and driving organizational success.

Government 88

Government Culture Ethics Agile 88

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

This is one of the reasons Mark and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Your team might not need an agile approach. The place to report project status. In every case (yes, through about 20+ workshops), the people in my workshops reported that not everyone had licenses for all the necessary tools.

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Agile Tools Management Metrics 80

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 7, 2016

We all know that in a foreign culture, one of the most important skills to develop is the ability to translate, to learn to speak the new language — or at least master a few key phrases. You also need to learn to translate your behavior so you don’t end up making cultural faux pas. Do a cultural inventory.

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Culture System Policies Operations 125

Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2017

This approach is evident in, for example, agile software development methods. We studied how expertise was organized in 71 software development teams in a large U.S. We then created a network map of team expertise, based on the nominations and weighted by the reported value. Another approach is to let teams self-manage.

How To 119

How To Video Software Analysis 119

Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

Cash Flow 129

Cash Flow Transportation Energy Balance Sheet 129

Harvard Business

JUNE 25, 2018

More recently, we worked with the senior team of a large consumer product company which had been severely disrupted by smaller, more agile online competitors selling their services directly to consumers. Their work is ongoing, but among the most common feelings people reported were liberation and relief.

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