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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower Innovation

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. The PMs are seeing late deliveries and bugs that suggest the devs just aren’t capable enough. This can be true even if those failures had nothing to do with the current team.

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How to Build Your Culture of Human-Centered Innovation

Inceodia

If you’re not familiar with the Kodak failure, Steven Sasson , an engineer at Kodak developed the first digital camera in 1975. While they could see how to evolve their technology, they could not see how to evolve their business model. How to Make Human Centered Innovation Work for You. Innovation is a team sport.

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Effective Leaders Create Highly Engaged Cultures

Tullio Siragusa

Effective Leaders Create Highly Engaged Cultures. The strange thing is that some authority figures do believe that to be true and have accepted it as part of their work culture. Leaders can have a significant impact on company culture. Let people do self-assessments and choose tasks based on their unique strengths.

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Effective Leaders Create Highly Engaged Cultures

Tullio Siragusa

Effective Leaders Create Highly Engaged Cultures. The strange thing is that some authority figures do believe that to be true and have accepted it as part of their work culture. Leaders can have a significant impact on company culture. Let people do self-assessments and choose tasks based on their unique strengths.

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Calculating the Six Hidden Costs of Waste in Software Development 

Planview

How to reduce this type of waste To reduce misaligned work, organizations must clearly define, communicate, and ensure understanding of their strategic goals at all levels. How to reduce this type of waste To reduce excessive work in progress (WIP), setting WIP limits may not be enough.

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Design Thinking Applied to Re-Organizations

Tullio Siragusa

After knowing the clear roles that are needed as part of the reorganization along with the new expectations, you will need a process map to clearly assess which roles will be engaged while completing the project. Team members should be on board to know how to prepare for fulfilling new expectations. Develop Team Habits.

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Don’t just pay interns, help them build networks

Christensen Institute

To start, invite more individuals to review an intern’s work. It’s invaluable to show the interns where his or her work fits within the larger effort of the company, [such as] how the case study created by a marketing intern aligns to a need within sales, or the competitive analysis is used by the product development team,” Moss said. “It