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Agile
Addressing the Tech Labor Shortage — Looking Outside the Organization
The global tech labor shortage is becoming far more than an annoyance for companies within and outside the technology space. These days, nearly every organization is, to some extent, a software company. Job site Monster...
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Agile
Addressing the Labor Shortage in Tech — Looking Inside the Organization
The labor shortage in tech is now a global problem, and it’s not going away anytime soon. According to research and consulting firm Korn Ferry, “by 2030, there will be a global human talent shortage...
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Business Agility
Product Owners Should Wear Their PARKA
As a former Product Owner (PO) with years of experience training and working with Product Owners around the world, I’m often asked, ‘What makes a good Product Owner?’ And my answer isn’t a list of...
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Cprime
Solve Your Tech Talent Shortage from Within
Over the last 15 years, I’ve hired dozens of software engineers, and it has never been enough. The demand for developers just continues to grow as the products we use every day become more entwined...
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Cprime
Elevate Your Tech Talent with the MakeDev Program
Today\'s business leaders and HR managers face seismic shifts in the business landscape, whether pandemic-related or precipitated by competitive innovation. To respond, organizations often have to reduce staff and skills in one area of the...
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Agile
Learning to Size (Too Big?) Over Learning to Estimate (How Big?)
When teams are asked to pick up a new piece of work, estimation inevitably comes into play. Determining the size of each item of work is a valuable part of any planning process. If we...
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Business Agility
Product Planning Over Project Planning
Product thinking—and its direct result, product agility—is a paradigm shift for companies that previously relied exclusively on project management to plan and manage long-term initiatives. And it’s proven to be highly effective and beneficial. But,...
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Business Agility
Are These Challenges Hampering Your Product Design and Management?
While product design and more general product thinking are becoming the industry ideal, many organizations struggle to implement them fully and reap the benefits. In many cases, the problems they’re facing can be boiled down...
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Business Agility
Outcomes Over Outputs: Set Yourself Up for Success
In the world of project management, outputs — what you produce in relation to what you planned to produce and the metrics for measuring how efficiently you did so — have long ruled the definition...
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Business Agility
Big Rocks in Your Product Agility Journey
You may have heard (more than once…) the idea of ‘Project to Product’. Indeed, in recent years this notion is increasingly becoming a buzzword. It’s worth asking, however, what does this idea really mean and...
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Business Agility
Building the Right Product
Project to Product Thinking Part 3 Dating back to the early 2000s the Agile movement drove tremendous advancements in process maturity. We learned to work and deliver in iterations, and focus on progress. But what’s...
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Business Agility
Project to Product Funding
Project to Product Thinking Part 2 One of the main promises agility is supposed to deliver on is decreased costs. Most organizations view IT as a cost center and believe that if IT becomes more...
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