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When Building a Culture For Innovation, Form Follows Function

Cris Beswick

Decades later, the form-follows-function paradigm became deeply embedded across industrial design, software development, and systems engineering disciplines. This perspective views innovation not as a thing unto itself but as an organisational capability that emerges from systematic efforts.

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The Rise of Product Management

Moves the Needle

Ken Beer was the Director of Product Management and reported into the Marketing department. It was not unusual to find PM’s who reported into Engineering at the time, the two cases perhaps reflecting the above origin stories. Agile and Human-Centered Design The Agile Manifesto of 2001 was a game-changer in product development.

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L.I.V.E. (Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution): A new, more effective way to manage multiple innovation projects

Idea to Value

Most commonly, traditional project management will continuously track how well a project is progressing and report this to management on a regular basis, while also having set milestones with dates where the status of the entire project can be reviewed. Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution). Want to learn more? works: L.I.V.E.

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. And other problems stemmed from UX practitioners feeling disconnected from the daily life of the development teams they supported. “I

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Becoming Real Innovators

Technology Created

As a father, I can tell my daughter many facts about riding a bike: put your foot on the forward pedal to start, look straight ahead, lean into the turn, steer to keep your balance. Executives want to report measurable results with certainty, otherwise the entire effort is deemed a failure. Lean into the turn?

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Scaled Agile Framework: what is and how it works

mjvinnovation

Among other things, it: enables the implementation of Lean-Agile software at the corporate level; is based on Lean and Agile principles; provides detailed guidance for working on the Portfolio, Value Stream, Program and Team; was designed to meet the needs of all stakeholders within an organization.

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Announcing Planview Copilot: Accelerate Transformation and Action Data-Driven Strategic Decision-Making

Planview

The software development methodologies and organizational design principles harnessed by digital natives are well documented. Quantifying the Disconnect Between Business Leaders and Technology Teams Consider one of the most startling findings from The 2023 Project to Product State of the Industry Report.