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Ultimate Guide To MOOCs: Take Online Courses From Elite Universities

Many of the world’s best professors at the top Universities in the world are now offering some of their best courses for you to lear online. In just …

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Deploying Scrum and SAFe at Philips Lighting

A number of us have been been involved in implementing SAFe in various Philips divisions over the last two years. Here’s a short intro to one of the …

Spotifying SAFe with Guilds, Chapters and Squads

Last month’s Agile Australia conference played host to both +Dean Leffingwell, the creator of the Scaled Agile Framework and +Anders Ivarsson, …

Guidance – What’s New in SAFe 4.0

SAFe is an online, freely revealed knowledge base of proven, integrated success patterns for implementing Lean-Agile development at enterprise …

IBM announces full support of SAFe in Release 6.0.1 of their CLM Solution

We are pleased to report that IBM just announced their end-to-end support of SAFe 3.0 in release 6.0.1 of their CLM (Collaborative Lifecycle …

10 Things You Need to Know About SAFe 4.0

Today, Scaled Agile Inc. — the Dean Leffingwell organisation that owns the Scaled Agile Framework®, or SAFe® — announced SAFe version 4.0. Here are …

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How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Companies

The evolution of products into intelligent, connected devices—which are increasingly embedded in broader systems—is radically reshaping companies and competition.Smart thermostats control a growing array of home devices, transmitting data about their use back to manufacturers. Intelligent, …

How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition

Information technology is revolutionizing products. Once composed solely of mechanical and electrical parts, products have become complex systems that combine hardware, sensors, data storage, microprocessors, software, and connectivity in myriad ways. These “smart, connected products”—made possible …

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8 Trends Shaping Modern Product Management

A brief post to list eight trends that are shaping modern product management. This is based on my personal observations. Your observations may …

The Difference Between a Story and a Task

What’s the difference between a user story and a task?Well that’s an easy question, I thought, the first time it was asked of me in a Certified …

Why SCRUM Backlogs lead to bad Product Decisions

I used to be a huge fan of SCRUM sprints and backlogs when it comes to planning software projects but the more I dive into product management the …

Bye bye big data. Hello in-house data!

Big data is still a hot topic today. And yet, the majority of Belgian companies get little benefit out of it. This makes sense, since these companies …

How to Design (and Analyze) a Business Experiment

The rise of experimental evaluations within organizations — or what economists refer to as field experiments — has the potential to transform organizational decision-making, providing fresh insight into areas ranging from product design to human resources to public policy. Companies that invest in …

A Criticism of Scrum • Aaron Gray

So Scrum. The most popular agile software development methodology, with seemingly around 70% of agile teams using it. What is it all about? Is it …

Your Innovation Team Shouldn’t Run Like a Well-Oiled Machine

Most innovation teams inside large companies are set up to operate like well-oiled machines. They move in a specified direction at a predictable speed. Since the early 1900s, this model has been the prevailing paradigm for how organizations are designed and run.The problem is that while this …

Why Organizations Don’t Learn

Virtually all leaders believe that to stay competitive, their enterprises must learn and improve every day. But even companies revered for their dedication to continuous learning find it difficult to always practice what they preach.Consider Toyota: Continuous improvement is one of the pillars of …