Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

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. I first encountered Agile Development in 2005, when a team I supported was chosen to help pilot Scrum development methodology at Yahoo!

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

There are needs to explore the ways of working, collaborating and engaging and that alone is a massive undertaking. Digital is demanding so much in new processes that need to be more agile, responsive, reflective of new insights at increased speed and fluid in the design of those undertaking the solution to react.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

We created Instant Coffee to help facilitate better idea generation — whether you’re a C-level executive thinking through your company’s next big move, or an individual contributor trying to collaboratively solve a problem with your team. Instant Coffee is a new way to brainstorm and collaborate with your team and others.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Yet with the right information and training this problem can be easily fixed. The framework I developed and use with clients is called the Lean Innovation Validation & Execution management (L.I.V.E.) framework, and is designed to speed up and reduce risk for a huge variety of types of innovation projects. [If

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ImagineNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In last month’s blog , we reinforced and validated the importance and role of collaboration, and described the range of emerging new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed sustainable innovative workplace culture change. Collaboration. Innovation teams are teams that don’t innovate!

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Planview

MAY 20, 2022

It’s a lot to manage, but implementing best practices to improve visibility and collaboration can make a real difference. They provide forward-looking information about where there will be capacity crunches down the line. Embracing agile work methods can also help with realistic scheduling. Plan for Change.

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Acuvate

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Below, we’ll have a look at some of the innovative use cases of AI, automation, and analytics that automotive companies must consider to become more agile and resilient and set the stage for continuous improvement in operations. Today’s drivers expect real-time and contextually meaningful information at their fingertips while on the road.

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Planview

JUNE 3, 2022

Experimentation is intentional, informed, and controlled – it’s taking calculated risks to test a hypothesis, and is encouraged in an Agile environment. In the Lean/Agile world, we often talk about the cost of delay: a way of communicating the impact of time on the outcomes we hope to achieve.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 7, 2023

Teams and their leaders should collaborate to define their missions, outcomes, and metrics that measure progress toward the desired result. Understanding these will help set the foundation for increased collaboration, improved productivity, and ultimately, growth. Building trust takes time and is often earned rather than given freely.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 15, 2019

And it’s only partially about collaboration and team bonding. ” What I mean is you could use Improv problem solving tools with Agile, Lean, Design Thinking, or CPS. For more information on Improv courses and workshops , get in touch with GFi (Gregg Fraley Innovation). . It’s Not About Comedy.

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CMOE

MAY 28, 2021

With the changing needs and demands of clinical care, technology, and spending, leadership in healthcare must stay agile to keep up with the shifting tides. Healthcare leaders must comply with laws and regulations, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), to safeguard patient health information.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 1, 2016

Collaboration is formed at the hip with Co-creation. We do need to blend it in and fuse it with other techniques, so to sort out where it fits within the innovation mix and valuing it for its ‘added’ worth to transform information into achieving tangible outcomes. • Make the “network effect” really mean something in results.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Then, we have the investments in structures, systems, and governance , making sure these are flexible and robust enough to make what we work upon, as r esponsive, agile, adaptive, exploitative and exploratory. These are the foundation to build innovation capacities. It has moved well into the “how” from the “what, why and where”.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Industry borders are blurring, there are increasingly smaller, agile and highly disruptive companies working to change the existing into the new preferred. Established players that continue to choose the familiar are at increasing risk of missing out. If you can lay your hands onto a trends map that could inspire you so much the better?

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2023

Collaborations form the essence of discovery, relationships, innovation and new knowledge exchange. Sharing in collaborative arrangements enables the potential for improved operational productivity, and shared application development, tapping into a wider ongoing customer engagement and skill enhancements for all involved to gain from.

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Planview

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There are a number of benefits that come from following Lean Portfolio Management principles in your organization. That’s why over the last decade, it has become common for organizations to undertake Agile transformation initiatives to improve value delivery. 1: Obtain Business Leadership Support for Lean Portfolio Management.

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Boxes and Arrows

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Teams moving to agile often struggle to integrate agile with best practices in user-centered design (UCD) and user experience (UX) in general. Fortunately, using a UX Integration Matrix helps integrate UX and agile by including UX information and requirements right in the product backlog. The feedback loop is broken.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility. It is important for all companies in this day and age to maintain lean and agile methodologies to ensure that they are flexible enough to adapt to any change which comes their way.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 30, 2017

Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility. It is important for all companies in this day and age to maintain lean and agile methodologies to ensure that they are flexible enough to adapt to any change which comes their way.

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CMOE

APRIL 27, 2021

Identify and gather the right information to make their decision. Stay centered on the information you have on hand; let that guide you and lead you to actions that get quick results. People who are in value-aligned teams exhibit characteristics like the following: Enjoy collaborating. Enjoy collaborating.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Industry borders are blurring, there are increasingly smaller, agile and highly disruptive companies working to change the existing into the new preferred. Established players that continue to choose the familiar are at increasing risk of missing out. If you can lay your hands onto a trends map that could inspire you so much the better?

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mjvinnovation

JULY 1, 2021

Keep reading to understand why agile project management provides numerous advantages over traditional forms of project management. What is agile project management? Agile practices can be incorporated into project management, adding numerous benefits. We call this initiative agile project management. The answer is simple.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Consultants are not addressing many of the changes occurring and ignoring opportunities to adapt to different circumstances, they are simply not putting up a strong case of their engagement by redesigning their business models or opening themselves up to different forms of collaboration. Consultants are far too cautious for their own good.

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Integrative Innovation

MARCH 16, 2014

The corresponding integration of incremental and radical innovation can basically be achieved in different ways: Building ambidextrous and lean startup capabilities. As outlined in earlier posts , organizations need to balance exploitation (i.e. development of existing business) and exploration (i.e. – different processes.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

Then that constant investment in people, networks and relationships, that need to come together and, finally the structures, systems and governance that are flexible enough to make what we work upon as responsive, agile, adaptive, exploitive and exploratory, to end up with great new ideas, things and finally, winning successful concepts.

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Planview

MAY 6, 2022

As a global leader in medical technology grew in size and complexity, it struggled to achieve the manufacturing agility required to perform at scale. Agile Mindset Drives Medical Innovations. Inefficient Whiteboards Limit Manufacturing Agility. That’s when Planview LeanKit became part of their story. ” Sr. . ” Sr.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This represents the essence of digital transformation — a force that impacts us all through the speed of information, instant communications, and artificial intelligence. The Consumer Perspective Customers today are inundated with information, product choices, and options. This leads to happier, more productive work.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 4, 2023

Collaborations form the essence of discovery, relationships, innovation and new knowledge exchange. Sharing in collaborative arrangements enables the potential for improved operational productivity, and shared application development, tapping into a wider ongoing customer engagement and skill enhancements for all involved to gain from.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

These communities stimulate social engagement around the product through participation in forums, sharing, collaboration or even user-driven innovation by co-creating new products. It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 20, 2015

If it is then we are back in the land of incremental innovation where risk gets delegated down and we keep informed only to ‘what we think we know’ not what is changing. It builds on the initial work of Eric Ries and his minimum viable product thinking within the lean startup thinking methodology.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

In contrast, startups operate with speed and urgency, making decisions with incomplete information. Their size lets them adopt flatter and more agile organizational structures while providing incentives that reward risk-taking and collaboration. Startups are unencumbered by the status quo.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 5, 2019

SAFe is an agile framework for development that has been gaining a lot of prominence among developers and managers of software projects. Acronym of Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe is an agile development framework that provides a simple and lightweight experience for the team as it is divided into three segments: Time, Program, and Portfolio.

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

They help develop sound financial policies and track metrics that inform operational decisions. In this way, they foster innovation, facilitate timely resource allocation, and collaborate with revenue-generating units to optimize desired business outcomes. They attract, select and retain top talent.

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ITONICS

MAY 14, 2018

Large corporations have taken steps towards being more agile and adapting to the rapid pace of digitization by improving their oftentimes long innovation processes and giving more autonomy to employees. The term comes from the English and is based on the Lean Startup Model by Eric Ries. Adapt or die.

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Planview

JANUARY 26, 2023

As a project management leader, you’ve likely encountered the challenges of using multiple project execution methodologies (such as: waterfall projects, as well as collaborative and Lean-Agile work delivery). Tools like Planview AdaptiveWork will make it simple to pull the information you need for these discussions.

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Planview

DECEMBER 28, 2022

With that knowledge, they can take the most informed corrective actions to meet the customer’s top needs. By maintaining team-centric collaboration and continuous improvement through each product portfolio, organizations can accelerate their time-to-market and increase team efficiency in a way they wouldn’t be able to otherwise.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 2, 2016

We will see a significant acceleration of more innovation ecosystems, we are increasingly recognizing all the different collaborative tools increasingly at our disposal, we are exploring both platforms and forming ecosystems to radically alter the competitive edge previously seen to reside inside the single company. Our Personal Shifts.

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