Category: People-Centric
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Navigating the Choppy Waters: Overcoming the Challenges of Agility
This is a follow-up article to The Shifting Winds of Business: Why Agility is No Longer Optional, from last month. The America’s Cup isn’t won on calm seas. The most skilled sailors face treacherous conditions: sudden gusts, rogue waves, equipment…
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The Agility Crew: Unleashing the Power of High Performing Teams
This is a follow-up article to The Shifting Winds of Business: Why Agility is No Longer Optional, from last month. In the America’s Cup, victory isn’t achieved by a lone wolf captain. It’s the synergy of the crew, each member…
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Case Study: Visionary Application of Design Thinking as a Strategic Transformation Framework
Introduction In the early 2010s, the adoption of Design Thinking was primarily confined to product and service innovation and even then it was seen as cutting-edge. (I’d experienced design thinking firsthand as a product development lead for Reuters in their…
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Insufficient Stakeholder Engagement: A Recipe for Product and Project Failure
Stakeholder engagement is a critical component of successful product management and project delivery. It involves building strong relationships, effective communication, and active collaboration with individuals or groups who have an interest in the outcome of a product or project. Why…
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Celebrating World Usability Day 2015
World Usability Day “occurs annually to promote the values of usability, usability engineering, user-centered design, universal usability, and every user’s responsibility to ask for things that work better. The day adopts a different theme each year”. 2015 is the Ten…
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Agile and Predictability
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a hybrid of Crystal Clear, DSDM, XP, and Scrum; the most common Agile methodologies, but seeking to improve things for non-software teams. I sat on the train earlier, commuting to the office, looking…
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Approaches, Lets Try A New Blend
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Crystal Clear, DSDM, XP, and Scrum; the most common Agile methodologies, with distinct approaches and philosophies. It was good, but could it be improved? I sat on the train earlier, commuting home, looking…