by Jason Gardner (ed.) Restoring business operations to the home country after being relocated overseas is a trending topic in the business world. Companies are reconsidering manufacturing and service provision abroad due to fluctuating global economies and...
by Jason Gardner (ed.) As organizations strive to keep up with the ever-changing business landscape, they are turning to Agile methodologies to increase efficiency, speed, and flexibility in their operations. To effectively implement Agile methodologies, companies...
Everyone you work with is human. Everyone will make a mistake—probably a lot of them. And every company you’ve heard of and look up to works with humans and failures. How your company responds to failures is critically important.
Bridge renovations, bullet trains, major sporting events, oil refineries, canals, commercial construction, healthcare applications, software upgrades—they’ve all made recent headlines with record-breaking cost overruns. Some of these reported cost overruns are not...
Leadership is naturally one of the largest components in the success of a project team (or any team for that matter). Sure, the actual project results the team produces are the primary measurement of success, but the journey taken by the team to get to that point has...
We agile people like to say a lot that being agile, and scrum is not just for software and the IT department, and I’d like to prove it. We have successfully worked on transformational projects with construction, human resources, micro-miniature medical devices, rock...
Spotify Labs recently released part 2 of the animated video describing the company’s engineering culture, including their implementation of agile engineering practices. The culture at the company is a journey in progress, not a journey completed, so the video is...
Lean software development is an implementation of lean manufacturing principles and practices in the software development domain. It was actually adapted from the Toyota Production System. It can be summarized by seven principles: Eliminate waste. Waste means anything...
In an age where social networks are becoming more prevalent by the day and Generation Y is straying away from conventional forms of communication, such as emails, it’s a pleasant surprise to hear that Halton Housing Trust is taking a leap to decrease email usage...
With many leadership positions, regardless of the industry, it is advantageous for those in charge to know about their field’s operation processes. From communications professionals to engineering, those who have technical backgrounds have a greater knowledge for what...
Although we talk a lot about agile software development within the United States, many industries are using agile processes across the globe. Multinational corporations are experts in connecting industries through a variety of research techniques. Multinational...
Platinum Edge gets lots of questions about how development teams can be cross-functional. What does it mean to be cross-functional? What if I don't know how to do all the jobs on a development team? Is my expertise going to be wasted? Can this really work in the real...
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