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Agile Revolution in the Defense Industry

Scrum.org

These striking innovations, which look like toys, are the facade of a profound shift in the industrial paradigm based on speed of change, open-source, decentralization, and composability. Changing a traditional production tool is long and difficult, generating high costs, hindering innovation, and causing loss of economic opportunities.

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Agile. Creativity. Innovation.

International Institute for Learning

This family of methods are now commonly known as Agile , and it has been through the formation of the Agile Alliance and the publication of the Agile Manifesto (Fowler and Highsmith 2001). We can say the Agile methods have well-interpreted the so-called Copernican Revolution in management.

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2022 Aerospace and Defense Industry Trends

Epicflow Blog

Aerospace and defense industry is gradually recovering from the pandemic consequences, but still remains vulnerable as the world hasn’t fully overcome this crisis yet. Nevertheless, this year, the industry is going to focus on implementing innovations and searching for more opportunities for growth.

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Révolution agile dans l’industrie de la défense

Scrum.org

Ces innovations percutantes aux allures de jouets sont le faux-nez d’un changement profond de paradigme industriel basé sur la rapidité de changement, l’open-source, la décentralisation, et la composabilité. Pour innover, le coût du changement doit tendre vers zéro. C’est une rupture de modèle, et certains l’ont bien compris.

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The Evolution of Project Management

The IIL Blog

Private Sector Project Manager Selection The birth of modern-day project management is most frequently attributed to the engineering community, mainly aerospace and defense. Client/Stakeholder Collaboration In the early years of growth, the aerospace and defense contractors were marketing- and sales-driven companies.

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The Four Actions Framework – For Strategic Project Managers

The Strategic Project Manager

The framework encourages companies to rethink industry boundaries and focus on innovation rather than competition, ultimately leading to the creation of new market space. Raise – They raised the level of innovation and efficiency in the aerospace industry by focusing on rapid prototyping and iterative design processes.

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The Growth of Assistant Project Managers

The IIL Blog

Skills Needed: The Early Years In the 1950s and 1960s, the aerospace and defense industry contractors were the heaviest users of project management and established many of the forms, guidelines, templates, and checklists that were later updated to become the standards for project management. During the 1980s, another form of APM appeared.