Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

By providing real-time insights and streamlining complex workflows, project portfolio management tools empower organizations to handle diverse initiatives with precision and agility. It supports Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban, ensuring adaptability to different workflows.

Tools 130

Tools Management Software Resources 130

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2021

If you design for resilience, you’ll be better able to navigate disruptions.

Engineering 175

Engineering Agile Productivity Development 175

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 11, 2021

Worse, most career ladders assume we can assess what a person can do, not on their contributions to an agile team. That means most career ladders don't fit agile teams or an agile culture. Instead of individual achievements, we can reward the types of agile leadership we want to see in agile teams.

Agile 95

Agile Engineering Productivity Culture 95

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Are you trying to make an agile framework or approach work? Maybe you've received a mandate to “go agile.” Or, maybe you're trying to fit an agile framework into your current processes—and you've got a mess. I've seen plenty of problems when people try to adopt “agile” wholesale. Yes, cancel.

Agile 111

Agile Software Construction Analysis 111

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.

Agile 105

Agile Development Management Software 105

Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

By providing real-time insights and streamlining complex workflows, project portfolio management tools empower organizations to handle diverse initiatives with precision and agility. It supports Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban, ensuring adaptability to different workflows.

Tools 130

Tools Management Software Resources 130

Epicflow

MARCH 19, 2024

This time, we’ve prepared updates that will prove useful for those who work in an Agile environment, use Jira + Epicflow integration as well as those dealing with manufacturing, machine building, and other complex phased projects. back-end and front-end developers, QA engineers, etc.).

Management 130

Management Agile Engineering Software 130

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.

Agile 75

Agile Development Methodologies Software 75

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.

Agile 70

Agile Methodologies Software Development 70

Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 9, 2018

Ryan Ripley interviewed me on his podcast, Agile for Humans 83 about Create Your Successful Agile Project. I didn’t stint on my opinions or on my experience with agile teams. My engineering clients can’t predict sales because they can’t predict the market. We had a blast. That’s me.

Agile 55

Agile ROI Productivity Sales 55

SkillQuo

JANUARY 6, 2018

Your chances of finding procurement experts in biochemical engineering in Japan and Germany at the same time for the same project are significantly higher with a traditional management consulting firm. When should you consider an agile alternative? Global Requirements for the Same Project. Matrix Structure and Support.

Agile 50

Agile Deloitte McKinsey Bain 50

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. Let’s not kid ourselves — change is a difficult journey, and leading change requires a plan.

Training 130

Training Training Data Agile 130

Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

To prepare for and prevent the cyberattacks of the future, firms need to balance technological deterrents and tripwires with agile, human-centered defenses. Instead of “risk management,” we propose thinking of it as “risk agility.” When we say all employees have to be risk agile, we mean all.

Training 130

Training Training Agile Enterprise 130

Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2018

Every technology follows a similar path of discovery, engineering, and transformation. The digital revolution, for all of its charms, has had a fairly limited economic impact, compared with earlier technologies such as electricity and the internal combustion engine. We’ve spent the last few decades learning how to move fast.

Industry 134

Industry Energy Agile Engineering 134

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

That part discusses why managers see agile coaches and Scrum Masters as staff positions, not line jobs. This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility. Assess Your Product Subject Matter Domain Expertise There are at least two kinds of domain expertise: the product itself, and agile/lean expertise.

Agile 81

Agile How To Metrics Productivity 81

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. ” There is a senior functional manager, where the function is Engineering or IT or some name like that. Except, in an agile approach, product management (often via product owners) is an integral part of a high-performing agile team.

Productivity 74

Productivity Agile Culture Efficiency 74

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. That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance.

Recruitment 141

Recruitment Recruiting Finance Agile 141

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.

Industry 130

Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 130

Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2014

The book provides six principles that the author’s believe can make organisations more agile, competitive, and responsive by helping employees become more autonomous, cooperative and empowered. By forcing the engineers to understand the problems faced the warranty department, car designs became more reliable and cheaper to fix.

Productivity 98

Productivity Engineering Efficiency Agile 98

LSA Global

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

For example, a company looking to lead in artificial intelligence as part of its go to market strategy must invest in ensuring that its engineers, product managers, marketing, and sales teams possess cutting-edge AI knowledge, skills, and resources.

Talent 48

Talent Training Training Culture 48

Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2018

These bets on the next growth engine often depend on luck more than insight. The key is fast experimentation through lean, agile approaches. The term “innovation” is often associated with geniuses turning startups into gold mines — the next Google, Apple, or Amazon, with products no one even knew they needed.

Company 147

Company Agile Productivity Marketing 147

Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 2, 2020

I had a conversation with a hardware engineer whose organization got the mandate, “Go agile or bust!” We can assess or somehow predict the relative cost of each of these deliverables: Simulations: You pay for the simulation software once per engineer. Agile approaches work when the cost of change is low.

Agile 40

Agile Productivity Software Engineering 40

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers. Help Employees Embrace Agility. Agility is key to success when undertaking digital transformations. One of us works for and the other advises General Assembly.)

Media 136

Media Fashion Agile Sales 136

Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

Having seen how Yahoo spent massive engineering resources mining its user data to minimal effect, they believed a better model was to charge users a fee and create a small, agile team devoted to improving the product incrementally, as their blog post titled “Why We Don’t Sell Ads” explains: “At WhatsApp, our engineers spend (..)

Productivity 132

Productivity Engineering Accenture Banking 132

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.

Data 106

Data Consulting Agile Industry 106

Consulthon

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Hi, Would you share with me your experience of what framework do you use, when you want to implement Scrum/ Agile practices in a team of IT Engineers?I I would like to make an analysis of the best a.

Agile 40

Agile Engineering Analysis 40

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. See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.) Are you still working on this project? If so, how long do you think this project will take?

Development 121

Development Productivity How To Efficiency 121

Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

Companies that lacked experience with lean methodologies had to be trained to operate as agile teams in order to define a specific use case for the technology. For example, one large industrial company needed a better way to get people on cross-functional projects. Talent tech raises urgency for further talent innovation.

Talent 129

Talent Management Methodologies System 129

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. Embrace Agile Methods for Responding to Customers. The key to this transformation was an innovation approach common in the software industry: agile invention methodology.

Methodologies 70

Methodologies Agile Exercises Metrics 70

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. Adopting an agile method of customer testing and rapid iteration, they worked with engineering to rethink the product and bring a “minimum viable product” to market for these new buyers.

Marketing 134

Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 134

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.

Company 130

Company B2B Engineering System 130

Tom Spencer

APRIL 5, 2024

It also ensures more informed and holistic decision-making by making sure that the perspectives of engineers, designers, marketers, and executives are understood. Adopt an Agile Mindset The ability to embrace an agile mindset is a hallmark of great product managers.

Productivity 78

Productivity Management Strategy Strategy 78

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.

Agile 76

Agile Engineering Insurance Insurance 76

Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Agile software development is a set of principles and practices that aim to improve the effectiveness of software development. Although agile software development promises to reduce costs and boost creativity, the reliability and consistency of a consulting service could be negatively affected. Background and education are important.

Software 88

Software Consulting Accenture Agile 88

Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

Read more: Digitalization of Aerospace Engineering: Main Difficulties and Ways to Overcome Them. It also requires investment, agility, and teams capable of running experiments, and should be typically guided by the CEO or CSO. Digital marketing . Its aim is to create new business models, new products, or services.

Tools 147

Tools Operations Efficiency Talent 147

Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2020

.” It's also not quality engineering. The testers also cannot engineer product quality. Only the developers can engineer quality into the product. Any technical excellence , which is how you engineer quality into a product. Any technical excellence , which is how you engineer quality into a product.

Productivity 79

Productivity Management Engineering Software 79

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.

Retail 71

Retail Agile Sales Engineering 71