Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

It involves breaking down complex systems, processes, or strategies into smaller, independent components that can be assembled, reconfigured, and combined in various ways to meet specific business needs. By adopting a composable approach, organizations can achieve greater agility, adaptability, and scalability in their innovation efforts.

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Clear objectives act as a roadmap, guiding the team’s efforts and helping to measure success. Here are key actions to encourage openness and transparency: Hold regular team meetings to share updates and progress. Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART).

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

It’s interesting to reflect that in 1997, the Agile Manifesto had not yet been published. I had never heard of Agile. Agile and Human-Centered Design The Agile Manifesto of 2001 was a game-changer in product development. Agile and Human-Centered Design The Agile Manifesto of 2001 was a game-changer in product development.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

We need to create a digital transformation strategy, a clear roadmap and build the business case as it is going to be, well, umm…… transformational. It is not like downloading one app, playing around with it, assessing its value and dispensing with it if it does not meet our need.

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Planview

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In doing research for Project to Product I found myself having very similar discussions with analysts about expanding the benefits of Agile and DevOps to the operating model of a digital business. In the decade following, I was amazed to witness how ALM went on to shape the tool landscape around software development. Fast forward to 2016.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I had worked with SCRUM before, done training with Ken Schwaber (author 1 and co-founder of the Agile Alliance) and knew a few things from experience about how to achieve some success integrating a design team within SCRUM. Where did Agile come from? Agile can be thought of as a risk-management strategy.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Creative thinking exercises enable you to move away from these solutions and find new ones that meet the specific needs of your project. Brainwriting, or agile solution building , is a collaboration exercise that engages the entire team with each other’s ideas and allows everyone to insert their unique perspective into the mix.

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Planview

MAY 3, 2023

Key Transformation Challenges Picture this: You’re in a meeting to address challenges across the PMO and certain issues keep being raised. You’ve implemented agile ways of working at a team level, but as an enterprise, you’re still slow to market and are having trouble reacting to changes.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Organizations constantly search for Agility and Flexibility: A marketplace approach allows for agile evolution. This user-centric approach aligns well with the concept of ecosystem adoption driven by meeting user needs. Increasing scope for a total addressable market.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 6, 2022

We are or need to be, in search of a sustainable future where we can constantly build upon innovation capabilities, capacities and competencies that can be refreshed, strengthened and sometimes reduced to meet the circumstances. Plotting out the roadmap for innovations evolution. The scale of innovation impact desired.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To get the outcomes the executives are expecting from innovation, they’d need to build an agile organization where innovation happens at scale. As so many organizations are embarking on this journey towards becoming more innovative and agile, there’s unfortunately a lot of fake agile and innovation theater out there.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

52% of projects veer off course —either going over budget, missing deadlines, or not meeting the set expectations. By embracing ISO 56001, PMOs are not only transcending agility but also professionalizing innovation. And, 19% crash land —either abandoned halfway or completed but left unused. That’s concerning. And it gets worse!

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

Creating an innovation roadmap that outlines short-term and long-term initiatives. Here’s what an innovation keynote speaker might share about bringing these strategies to life in your business: Aligning innovation with strategic business goals to ensure it contributes to overall growth.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 12, 2021

Leverage the innate agility. A Fractional CINO addresses these missing skill sets: The MisFortune 10,000 Tend to Lack These Innovation Skills: Process and Innovation Project Management Skills — including: team building, culture leadership, innovation project roadmapping, and more. Here’s why.

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PlanBox Innovation

JUNE 27, 2023

Innovators must be agile and adaptive, ready to pivot and make adjustments as needed to stay on course towards their innovation goals. Action Plan: Plan, implement, and control your innovation initiatives, processes, structures, and support; manage each innovation initiative and configure innovation processes to suit each initiative.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

seem to not meet heightened expectations. While CX was initially the primary catalyst for digital transformation, innovation, agility, and the pursuit of digital relevance are the new factors driving companies along the maturity model. There is even more of a warning within the report.

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etventure

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When you join a roadmap meeting and you hear people talking about the “MVP”, you better make sure they are actually talking basketball before you throw in your favorite Michael Jordan story. The Challenges of Waterfall vs. Agile: Many companies have a careful method of product development – that is deeply embedded in their culture.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, a prototype is worth 1,000 meetings.” — saying at Ideo. One team I’ve worked with helps bridge this gap on strategic projects by maintaining an “experience roadmap.”

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

One supporter collaboration that has come out of our community is the Agile Uprising which looks to build a community around the agile mindset and includes four Happy Melly members as founders. One run by Agile Coach and Supporter Josh Briggs. One area where we see truly visible collaboration is among our Funders.

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Innovating4Energy

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

This approach should be well-thought-out and comprehensive and provide clear roadmaps for the essential broad inclusion solutions required. It’s about being agile and adaptable in response to new information and challenges.

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Peer Insight

MARCH 17, 2020

Here are a few alternative ways to measure success: clarity on learning goals, deep understanding of why users feel the way they do, reported satisfaction with the offering, clarity on future roadmaps, willingness to recommend. Try virtual research tools to both meet current deadlines (and to try them on for size). Focus your team.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We’ve learned from the collapse of Kodak, Blockbuster, RadioShack and other once-prominent organizations that a corporate culture designed to uphold and manage existing success can actually become the arch nemesis of an enterprise that needs to be agile in order to evolve to meet the needs of quickly changing global markets.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We’ve learned from the collapse of Kodak, Blockbuster, RadioShack and other once-prominent organizations that a corporate culture designed to uphold and manage existing success can actually become the arch nemesis of an enterprise that needs to be agile in order to evolve to meet the needs of quickly changing global markets.

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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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Planview

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Planview customers have access to this data thanks to our industry-leading portfolio, enterprise agile, and value stream management offerings. I bring up Planview, which has Roadmaps, Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), and Flow Metrics tailored to exactly what I am interested in. Now we see the magic happen.

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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. Spontaneous meetings between colleagues from different departments bring up ideas and talent across companies. Adapt or die.

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mjvinnovation

JULY 16, 2020

source) On a similar note, we are seeing new business models and partnerships emerge across the consumer goods and Key Accounts ecosystem in an attempt to meet the fast-changing demands of consumers. So then, how do we stay agile and relevant to our customers and consumers? But equally, innovation is critical for survival.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

We need to be more agile, iterative , to be encouraged to be extracting, experimenting and exploring. As you move towards solutions that meet their known needs or help you to “reveal” the unknowns that come out of understanding new value propositions from the ‘data and insights’ flowing in.

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CMOE

JULY 23, 2021

With a clear strategy in place, leaders are better able to meet short-term expectations and manage pressures and decisions in a way that aligns with and sustains the company’s overarching mission and vision. Strategy Promotes Strategic Agility. A well-defined strategy is important— but strategic agility is even more important.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 17, 2017

There is an apparent split between companies that find it easy to build a collaborative, customer-centric culture (smaller, more agile startup-type companies) and those that don’t (i.e., Every time a customer calls, requires a demo, has a 1-hour meeting with a sales person, etc. the more traditional enterprises). is friction.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

The customer today feels a growing empowerment, in choice in personalization, in knowing the products or service they are buying are meeting their needs and these are becoming increasingly intelligent to meet these needs. Moving closer to our innovation need we can see digital transformation everywhere, it is actually all around us.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

The customer today feels a growing empowerment, in choice in personalization, in knowing the products or service they are buying are meeting their needs and these are becoming increasingly intelligent to meet these needs. Moving closer to our innovation need we can see digital transformation everywhere, it is actually all around us.

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Be-novative

APRIL 21, 2021

Use all communicational channels including the intranet, all-hands meetings, and chat channels to tell the why and the origin story. CLIENT ENGAGEMENT DRIVES THE INNOVATION ROADMAP?—?Key We need to be prepared to support people with project managers who are skilled in agile and Design Thinking processes to act on these ideas.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Governments will need to introduce more substantive policies to meet the emission targets they signed up too and society, industry and us, as individuals will have to undergo adjustments to accommodate this in our habits, consumption, and usage. There is a compelling need to design a roadmap for changing the energy system in nearly all cases.

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 23, 2014

By using these nascent user-centered design methods, they were able to meet the expanding needs of their user base and claim over 90% of the small business accounting software market. The walls around it are covered with whiteboards, and anyone can sit at the table to meet, brainstorm, or work. And everyone has a seat at the table.

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