Leading the conversation on digital connected work
It is a normal part of professional life that an organization or specific team might go through difficult times. This could be major restructuring which results in layoffs, a breakdown in relations that leads to a lot of team members leaving or one of those periods where, for whatever reason, many clients leave within a...
As we continue our blog series on using the Pragmatic Marketing Framework to improve product development, we turn our sights now to product roadmaps. Before we get started, be sure to catch up on anything you missed in part 1: Supporting Product Strategy to Execution Leveraging the Pragmatic Marketing Framework, and part 2: Supporting Sales...
Working smarter (not harder) could mean the difference between a so-so project and a successful one–this article will explore five tips for working smarter, not necessarily harder. The phrase, “work smarter, not harder” seems like an obvious piece of work advice. Who wouldn’t want to use their brains to deliver increased success along with more free...
Known throughout the world for its greeting cards, retail stores, gifts, and television series, Hallmark Cards believes that when you care enough, you can change the world. Their products and services are dedicated to creating a more emotionally connected world and making a difference in the lives of others. Translating caring and creativity into action...
In March, SolutionsIQ included us in their article, “Getting to Equal in an Agile Workplace,” as one of the tools that can help teams achieve transparency while tracking the progress of their work. Throughout the article, author Hanna Gnann offered a fresh take on how companies can strive to achieve equality for women in the workplace using...
“DevOps Enterprise Summit is the epicentre of learning for leaders and technologists wanting to see their digital transformations through to success. No other event I know goes as far in combining technology foundations with business results.” – Dr. Mik Kersten, CEO and co-founder, Tasktop At DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2018 (June 25-26, Intercontinental – The...
Are your management initiatives as innovative as your products? Shifting to a leadership style that embraces change, pursues agility, and thinks outside of the box can help your company speed innovation. In his latest Product Innovation & Technology Strategy blog on CIO.com, Patrick Tickle, Planview chief product officer, invites Jon Terry, Planview chief evangelist for...
We’ve all seen those projects that start with fast builds. Fast builds that build everything and run all of the tests are a great way to get feedback on your code review, whether it be Travis commenting on your GitHub Pull Request or Jenkins voting on your Gerrit code review. It’s almost inevitable that successful...
The importance of developer-tester collaboration is one of the most common integration patterns for a reason. It makes sense that you’d want the specialists who write the code to work in harmony with the specialists who test the code to optimize the defect reporting and resolution process by: reducing defects improving Mean Time To Resolution...
Ah yes: chat apps. Those cool tools with all kinds of bells and whistles that promise to bring together distributed teams and enable real-time collaboration. But as many enterprises are experiencing, the reality isn’t living up to the hype. Yes, people are frenetically sending messages back and forth. But they aren’t necessarily advancing the work...
