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Calculating the Six Hidden Costs of Waste in Software Development 

Planview

Nothing frustrates software developers more than working hard on something that never ends up providing value. Whether because of changing priorities, miscommunication among teams, or other blockers, the hidden cost of waste can significantly impact productivity and bottom lines.

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What does it mean to cultivate a Fail Fast Culture?

ImagineNation

I recently met with a client, who was seeking our ideas, information and input towards what might be involved in cultivating a fail fast organizational culture. In software development, the intention is to discover and detect where a potential problem might occur in the overall process, to speed it up and minimise time and costs.

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Business Model Scalability: Internal vs External

The BMI Lab Blog

4 Strategies to Improve Your Internal Scalability Leverage External Resources The most scalable models to date are digital platforms that leverage external resources e.g. cars and drivers (Uber), engineers and product designers (Local Motors), or software developers and phone manufacturers (Android).

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Everything you need to know about innovation management software

hackerearth

What is innovation management software (IMS)? Poor innovation implementation. Poor innovation planning. Excessive reliance on software developers. Well-designed innovation management software is expected to fix these issues. Boost an internal culture of innovation. Rampersad, G., and Plewa, C.

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Innovation management software: Everything you need to know

hackerearth

What is innovation management software (IMS)? IMS are action-based, goal-centered, and results-oriented applications that adopt a process-based life-cycle approach to facilitate heterogeneous teams’ collaborative efforts in managing innovations, including inception, realization and commercialization.” (L Dooley and D. Rampersad, G.,

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The Quality Chronicles

CorporateIntel

Information compounds on our desktops, the team with analysis paralysis most often loses to the nimble risk takers—but all this means is that in product development , the role of Quality Assurance (QA) has never been more critical. ” Believe me, I understand trade-offs. ” Believe me, I understand trade-offs.

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Hackathons simplified

hackerearth

A hackathon , also known as a codefest, is typically a day-long coding competition where a bunch of software developers, computer programmers, designers, and others join hands to improve upon or build a new software program. The goal of the hackathon was to educate developers about Alexa. Hackathons maybe theme-based.