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Agile - In it’s simplest form
Greeting Folks, The idea of writing this blog triggered while taking bath today morning, literally I mean it. What a place to get the idea for writing on this topic. Many of my Indian colleagues must have seen the movie ‘3 Idiots’. I believe all of them must remember the Amir Khan’s answer to the question – What [...]
Continue reading...Does distance really matter?
18. April 2011, by Peter Harrison
Imagine that your engineering team goes into a final product review meeting happy and confident in its work, ready to launch the product with just a few minor tweaks. Then seemingly out of the blue, the product stakeholder criticizes the most crucial features of the product, claims your team did not develop the product as [...]
Continue reading...When Innovation Comes to an End
6. March 2011, by Peter Harrison
Just last month, Borders, the second largest bookstore chain in the US, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and is now closing 30% of its stores. With rapidly eroding capital resources and more than $1 billion in debt, Borders may be the biggest bankruptcy in the history of the book business. The Blockbuster story is [...]
Continue reading...Happy 10th Anniversary, Agile!
21. February 2011, by Peter Harrison
This month, Agile Practitioners all over the world are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Agile Manifesto. Within a decade, Agile has become a significant alternative to the heavyweight software product development processes that were utilized in the past to execute projects (and often with little success). Agile principles and practices have helped people learn [...]
Continue reading...Minds are linear, change is not!
20. January 2011, by Peter Harrison
It’s increasingly evident that as time passes it also compresses. Only thirty years ago, shoppers might have looked through “big book” catalogues from Sears and other department stores to purchase and receive goods in a span of weeks. Now express shopping only requires a mouse click and overnight delivery. Similarly, this past decade has witnessed technology [...]
Continue reading...Agile Collaboration as the Key to Market Domination
15. December 2010, by Peter Harrison
Earlier this month as we celebrated GlobalLogic’s 10th anniversary, some of my colleagues and I were chatting about 3D printing technology and how it could be used for more than just entertainment purposes. We imagined how 3D printers could be used by businesses to rapidly create 3D prototypes and even deliver finishing products on-demand – [...]
Continue reading...Taking the Pulse of an Agile Project
20. October 2010, by Peter Harrison
In 2004, Dr Donald Berwick, co-founder and CEO of The Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI), announced an unprecedented campaign to save the lives of 100,000 patients in American hospitals through a new set of protocols and practices. In 18 months, he was able to enroll 3,100 hospitals in this new campaign and together save 122,300 [...]
Continue reading...Best Practices Aren’t Always the Best Practice
21. September 2010, by Peter Harrison
Although the concept of Agile isn’t even a decade old, it has taken the software development community by storm. Even technology giants like Google, Microsoft, SAP, Cisco, Yahoo and Salesforce are steadily adopting Agile methods. Yet all too often, I witness Agile adopters trying to apply a single set of best practices to an entire [...]
Continue reading...Agile Development – Change is constant!
28. August 2010, by Ashish Mundra
Often I see that whenever there is a change in requirements from the client, the developers tends to get de-motivated.. unwilling to change the codebase.. I hear comments like: They are not clear on what they want They should first define their requirements and then move forward with this Our marketing team would accept just everything that client [...]
Continue reading...To Foster Change, Clone Your Successes
20. July 2010, by Peter Harrison
It’s no secret that people can be very resistant to change, especially if that change comes from an external force. After all, ‘better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.’ In the business world, we often see this adage put into practice when an organization tries to improve its processes for productivity, quality [...]
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29. April 2011, by Deepak Kumar Sharma
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