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A Day in the Life of a Planview Software Development Engineer Test Manager

Planview

For this month’s blog spotlight , we are going to travel to Bangalore and follow Geetika to spend a day in the life of a Software Development Engineer Test manager. Here is what Geetika had to say: Explain your role as a Software Development Engineer Test Manager and a few of your responsibilities.

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Scaling Agile Through Cascading Missions

Moves the Needle

There’s been this tendency to kind of munge agile together with lean manufacturing and lean startup or lean innovation. Next you might think “We’ve got one thousand people and we need to group them into teams and carve up the work into missions.” ” Impactful organization.

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Non-Profit Innovation: NCARB Brings New Product to Market

Moves the Needle

How The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Used Lean Innovation to Create New Value for Their Customers Take this Case Study with you! The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards ( NCARB ), a national non-profit organization, develops standards for licensure and credentialing of architects.

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Announcing Planview Copilot: Accelerate Transformation and Action Data-Driven Strategic Decision-Making

Planview

The software development methodologies and organizational design principles harnessed by digital natives are well documented. In this study covering thousands of value streams under management, we baselined the capacity of enterprise organizations’ value streams by measuring the flow of value through software development tools (e.g.,

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The Rise of Product Management

Moves the Needle

Agile and Human-Centered Design The Agile Manifesto of 2001 was a game-changer in product development. The approach empowered software developers to build products in an iterative and flexible manner. The product management function is the right group to design, test, and iterate upon those systems.

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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work – the Minimal Viable Product

Steve Blank

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Here’s how. Build-Measure-Learn.

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The Root Cause for Innovation Theater and How to Avoid It

Leanstack

To speed things up, we break these funnels into smaller sub-funnels, define clear local KPIs (key performance indicators), and assign different groups of people (departments or organizations) to optimize them. Innovation funnels, for instance, need at least 2–3 years to go from idea to product/market fit. This is when the problem starts.

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