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Product Development with the Stage-Gate® Process (Part 2): Strengths, Weaknesses, Pitfalls

Inloox

The Stage-Gate® process is a process model for the targeted development of innovations - for example, in the form of products and services. In the second part, we now dive deeper into the strengths and weaknesses of the Stage-Gate® process as well as potential pitfalls and responsibilities. Weaknesses of the Stage-Gate® process.

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Lack of Education is a Root Cause of Poor Agile Performance

Scrum.org

Last week I was invited to give a lecture at the Free University of Amsterdam at the faculty for Digital Business Innovation. The first paper was a 2012 study on the tensions with remote (off-shoring) teams (Ramesh et al Ambidexterity in Agile Development ISR2012). Even in institutions where they teach (software) development.

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Develop Better High Performing Teams

ProjectManager.com

As we ease into the new year, many organizations’ executive teams are ramping up hiring for new talent. All these efforts require precise judgment to hire just-in-time talent, using data to make strategic project decisions at a portfolio, program and project level and launching new high performing teams.

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How To Motivate Your Project Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. Why do you think motivation on project teams is so important? She’s even written the book on it. So how do we do it? Gertman et.

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Innovation: Running Experiments and Learning

Leading Answers

In my last article on  Incubating Innovation , we explored the culture and mindset of accountable experimentation. Within agile frameworks, the team retrospective is the primary workshop for planning and evaluating experiments. Yet most team retrospectives I see are broken. This is a more useful format.

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Best Teamwork Quotes: 35 Motivational Quotes for Teams

ProjectManager.com

And since every team can use a little extra motivation once in a while, we set out to find the best teamwork quotes for you to share with your employees to get your team working at their best. Don’t forget that, while employee motivation is key to success in the workplace, it’s not all you and your team need to succeed.

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How oragnizations and companies become and remain innovative

Inloox

Research and development, innovation management and new product introduction On the way to becoming an innovative company and what role project management can play in this process What is remarkable about innovations is their multiple ambivalence. 1]] Why are some organizations or companies more innovative than others?