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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower Innovation

No good innovator turns down advice! 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. Would you create contracts without an attorney?

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Maximizing Efficiency & Productivity: 3 Ways GenAI Optimizes Value Stream Management for Tech Leaders 

Planview

With a multitude of products and services that companies serve to customers, the recognition of Value Stream Management (VSM) in modern software delivery has never been stronger. To explain, VSM constitutes a set of management practices that focuses on maximizing the flow of business value within an organization with the end customer in mind.

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Agile Frameworks: learn how they work in practice

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Agile Frameworks help the business team experience an Agile mindset in practice. With Agile Frameworks, business processes become more dynamic, staggering business values and productivity. 5 Most used Agile Frameworks. Therefore, the risks are better worked and reduced, as progress and delays are monitored.

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5 Tips for Adding Value to Agile Design

InnovationTraining.org

Agile Design Tip 1—Clear Goals Supported by Design Research. In Some Thoughts on Design Research, Agile, and Traps Charles Lambdin stresses the importance of clearly defined goals. Design Innovative software” is not a concrete goal; it’s a vague directive. Agile Design Tip 2—Leading with UX Design.

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Calculating the Six Hidden Costs of Waste in Software Development 

Planview

This misalignment disrupts the entire workflow, causing upstream teams to wait and downstream teams to deal with non-prioritized outputs, slowing down the organization. Another reason for misalignment is teams working on lower-priority items due to blockers and continuing with them even when higher-priority tasks become available.

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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? The goal of design thinking is to understand the user’s needs and come up with solutions that are both innovative and practical.

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Innovate your processes before innovating your products

Jeffrey Phillips

I was leading an innovation training session, talking about the reasons for conducting trend spotting and scenario planning prior to idea generation. I described why we advocate trend spotting and scenario planning as a component of innovation, especially as the expectations of an innovation activity are more disruptive.