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Service Design: Process, Tools and Techniques

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This requires first understanding what service design is and how the process works. It’s a collaborative process that aims to improve and innovate service offerings by understanding customers’ needs, expectations and pain points and aligning them with the capabilities and goals of the organization providing the service.

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Embracing Positive Risk: A Path to Innovation

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Project managers will cite the PMBOK’s Risk Management process as a core part of their discipline. We spend countless hours developing strategies to prevent bad outcomes, such as project failures, missed deadlines, and unmet expectations. We might prioritize rigid processes over flexibility or discourage experimentation.

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7 Ways Project Manager Roles Are Changing

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These new skills are reflected in the new Project Management Institute (PMI) guidelines for certification and professional development units (PDUs) needed to maintain certification, a new triad of skills they’re calling the “Talent Triangle.” So, you’re asked to wear more hats, but you’ve only one head. What do you do?

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Balancing Operational Excellence with Innovation

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How many people struggle with juggling Business as usual (BAU) operations as well as delivering products to customers and well as investing in innovation? Some teams even use their BAU workload as a reason that they can’t go agile? They were essentially “Run” teams building and tweaking stuff. The “Build” part was “Agile”.

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

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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.

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Develop Better High Performing Teams

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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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Why Skipping a Sprint Retrospective Is a Bad Idea?

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An effective Sprint Retrospective ensures the team remains cohesive and aligned, leading to sustainable development and innovation. Still, the decision to skip a single Sprint Retrospective can adversely affect the team and the product's development process.