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It’s Time to End the Battle Between Waterfall and Agile

Harvard Business Review

Too many project leaders think rigidly about Waterfall and Agile project management methodologies and believe that they need to choose between the two. But many projects — especially those with diverse stakeholder needs and complex structures — benefit from a hybrid approach that combines aspects of Waterfall and Agile.

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What Did the Pandemic Teach Us About New Product Development?

Planview

In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. Addressing Agile-Stage-Gate PPM Implementation Challenges Resource Allocation, Capacity, Planning Best Practices.

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Innovation on Steroids: Next Generation AI-Powered Phases and Gates

Leapfrogging

The typical stages might include concept development, design, testing, and launch. At each gate, key criteria are assessed by a cross-functional team, which may include factors like market viability, technical feasibility, and financial projections. Enhance the quality of products developed.

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Moving from Project to Product: A Five-Stage Journey

Planview

And so is the mindset around productivity and team structure. In the traditional project-centered model, companies are organized around tasks, with each group focused on one element of a project. But greater emphasis is being placed on moving from project to product, which focuses on enabling teams to become end-to-end experts.

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How to Speed Up Your New Product Development Process by 30%

Innovation 360 Group

A new product development process that works at lightning speed requires new ways of working plus new ways of innovating. In this post we will cover how to: Cut your development cycle time and free up working capital. Expecting the same type of return from projects in different horizons. How do you address these issues?

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Working together to shape innovation for meaningful change

Paul Hobcraft

Within the value proposition, we actively shape these journeys, building adaptability, agility and innovation for long-term success in the changing business environment we all face today. A landscape and the navigation skills that provide the adaptability and agility needed for successful innovation in the current business landscape.

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System Engineering in an Agile environment

Huub Rutten

Andrew is a senior Director System Engineering in a big manufacturing company: “You should understand Huub, Agile gives a lot of freedom to the development teams. The company is moving completely towards Agile and management wants all of us to work in an Agile way. Authority does not fit the Agile philosophy, you know”.

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