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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower Innovation

The Tactical Technical Advisor stays on top of the development team to ensure that they’re team is building the right thing in a high-quality, efficient manner. This is especially important with outsourced development teams. Are developers following best practices in their code and life cycle?

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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower Innovation

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. The PMs are seeing late deliveries and bugs that suggest the devs just aren’t capable enough. This can be true even if those failures had nothing to do with the current team.

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Design Thinking Applied to Re-Organizations

Tullio Siragusa

A project manager in State A defines their roles by ensuring the project is on schedule and submitted by deadlines. In addition, they ensure that the project is moving forward by having status updates. Develop a Clear Process Map. The next step is to develop a clear map to avoid falling back into the same old habits.

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Calculating the Six Hidden Costs of Waste in Software Development 

Planview

How to reduce this type of waste To reduce misaligned work, organizations must clearly define, communicate, and ensure understanding of their strategic goals at all levels. Teams should be encouraged to reassess their tasks in relation to company priorities and shift focus when necessary.

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How to market a new product to the new generation of first time leaders?

Be-novative

Taking in everyone’s insights from our global expert network of the Be-novative Partner Hub gave us 15 potential value propositions for how we could be innovative in our approach to working with first time team leaders at their level (and still be effective). How to market a new product to the new generation of first time leaders? ??

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Don’t just pay interns, help them build networks

Christensen Institute

Numerous studies on internship quality have highlighted that well-structured projects, along with feedback on said projects, are critical to intern satisfaction and productivity. To start, invite more individuals to review an intern’s work. A colleague may offer episodic support on projects.

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Innovation Software Stage-Gate Process: The Most Commonly Used Stages

eZassi

When deciding upon your stages of innovation, it’s important to understand what those stages should be and how to best manage an idea at each stage. Innovation Software Stage-Gate Process #3: Under Review. Innovation Software Stage-Gate Process #5: Project Definition. Innovation Software Stage-Gate Process Stages Identified.