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Escaping the Feature Factory

Scrum.org

In many large organizations, Scrum teams fall into the ‘feature factory’ trap, focusing more on churning out features than creating real value. It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation.

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Understanding Kaizen: A Comprehensive Definition

Wrike

However, they faced significant challenges, as the war had left their industries in shambles, their infrastructure destroyed, and their resources scarce. While working at Toyota, Japanese engineer and businessman Taiichi Ohno played a crucial role in the development of Kaizen.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

More often than not in kind of either the IT product development space or IT services space. We like to consider ourselves kind of a full stack consultancy in the sense that you know, obviously, you have to deal with the work surface levels and what the teams are doing but you know, how do you orchestrate teams across dependency boundaries?

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10 (understated) Lessons from TPS!

Sudipta Lahiri

There is a lot of of literature on application of Lean and TPS to software industry. However, there are some key takeaways from Lean thinking that need to be understood/appreciate but haven’t got adequate focus in the software community. Shitsuke: Develop the habit of abiding by what is laid down. Lesson III: 3S vs 2S.

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Common Project Management Mistakes in Start-Ups

LiquidPlanner

In addition to limited resources, startup’s have the added pressure of competing in a new market and developing brand awareness. Understanding which projects are more vital than others can help the team decide where their money is spent and which projects get access to those resources first.

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Demystifying Scalability in Business Context

Wrike

Long-term sustainability assists in withstanding economic downturns, industry disruptions, or changes in consumer behavior. Cloud computing provides businesses with flexible and scalable infrastructure. Additionally, think of implementing agile and lean practices across the organization like Scrum or Kanban.

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Agency growth: 10 things to consider (+ expert tips)

Resource Guru

How do you bring in more clients to keep growing sustainably? Agency growth is the process of expanding your agency’s operations and capabilities by growing its client base, enhancing its service offerings, and strengthening its team to meet demand. A gency growth is about managing lots of moving parts—and managing them well.