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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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The 13 Best Performance Management Systems

CMOE

Performance management aligns team members and resources while flagging potential issues. McKinsey cites poor metrics, poor targets, and a lack of transparency as common issues. McKinsey cites poor metrics, poor targets, and a lack of transparency as common issues.

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How to Set Department Goals: 5 Useful Tips

CMOE

Establishing the right department goal and roadmap is key to overcoming companies’ execution challenges and obstacles. Workforce members understand what is expected of them, and they are more likely to achieve goals when they work collectively as a cohesive team. What Are Examples of Good Department Goals? The results?

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Unleash Your Visual Superpower!

Boxes and Arrows

Meaning anyone who provides the vision for a product, whether it be in code, wireframes, comps, prototypes, or cocktail napkins. Developers own the code, business owns the proposition, yet design is considered a “service.” The roadmap is a collection of prototypes showing what each release will look like.

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Hackathons—HR’s best friend

hackerearth

Trying to find an example of the “walking a thin line” idiom is easy. The talent management and performance review processes are certainly not what we’d refer to as all in a day’s work. These high-energy events are much more than people working collaboratively on a brilliant idea using software and hardware to solve a problem.

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Choosing the right innovation approach for your business

hackerearth

It is an arduous journey, inherently risky.But innovation partners, consultants, and innovation management software offer much promise in this space. If you don’t innovate, your company is likely to take this route: development → introduction → growth → maturity → decline. Innovation can be incremental (e.g. Source: www.elixirr.com.

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Soldiers & Hessians, Ronin & Ninja

Boxes and Arrows

Having worked as a consultant, at an agency and in-house, I’ve observed that the organizational location and economics of the user experience team can make or break them. When should you bring in an outside team, and when should you hire an individual employee? How to figure out the right team for a new project?