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Integrating ‘Agile’ Approaches into ‘Waterfall’ Cultures

InnovationTraining.org

This article is adapted from his recent book, What Matters in This Moment: Leading Groups Through Uncertain Times. Agile” and “Waterfall” offer us very different approaches to project management. is the guiding question, and we develop solutions based upon our understanding of the answer. What do our customers care about?”

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. His latest book, What a Unicorn Knows , is available on Amazon and reveals the secrets to building high growth startups. Here’s a Q&A with Matt that highlights the key points in the book. They are real.

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Momentum — Team Effectiveness Training

Gregg Fraley

…Accelerating Teams Through Assessment and Training. It’s a sad fact of organizational life that only a small percentage of teams achieve high function. Most teams muddle along, and get the essential things done — or not. And, all teams can improve, with training. Teams Improve With Momentum Training.

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Intentionality and the Differentiating Competitive Advantage 

Planview

The data measures the flow of business value through all the activities involved in a software value stream. This debunks the perspective that business agility and successful transformation are limited to companies of a certain profile. This is an unprecedented disadvantage for competitors.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Design Thinking

InnovationTraining.org

We then reviewed them to see that the answer summaries made sense. What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies? How can design thinking help with product development? This helps to ensure that the team is working on solving the right problem. Here are your design thinking FAQs and answers.

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Make the Commercial First

Boxes and Arrows

Too often the team gets all the way through building the product to find out they can’t explain the product. Way before starting to code, discover the true value of the idea using tools you probably already have. This is not a distraction; it forces a team to explain the value proposition and iterate on it.

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What is Lean Innovation? Components and Examples

Moves the Needle

And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. Design thinking is a step above “customer development” because it takes a real human approach to getting to the root of an intrinsic problem. While agile focuses on build velocity, lean focuses on customer traction velocity.”

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