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4 Step Escalation Process

Escalation Process In 4 Steps With Escalation Template

The Escalation Process clarifies the boundaries and channels of decision-making throughout an organization. Designed around the concept of a core project team, the Escalation Process diagram displays a path that allows the core team to make decisions at lower levels of the org chart while having a predefined path for exception management.

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Comprehensive Innovation Map

Innovation Best Practices: Creating Better Innovations Faster

Our clients often ask us how they can become more innovative. Some seem to believe that innovation appears as if by magic. Many believe that there is no process for innovation. We have identified three practices that are research-verified, an end-to-end series of steps that yield the best ideas.

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The Sprint Planning Scorecard Increases Project Predictability

Agile is not just for software anymore. Many companies that develop tangible products – be they hardware or mixed software/hardware systems – are applying techniques borrowed from Agile. By combining Agile with traditional processes, they are accelerating programs and delivering winning products.

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Innovation Strategic Planning Process: A Long Term Horizon for Product Planning

Before projects become products, they are ideas in the minds of your teams. They begin as product concepts, germs of your company’s future growth. How can companies manage the portfolio of product ideas?

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Sprints and Demos: Twin Beacons of Accountability

The time has come to de-mystify Agile. Our research and client work show that even those software firms that boast about being Agile do not necessarily follow every point in the Agile Manifesto. They do not follow even half of them.

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Project Efficiency: Getting More Done by Doing Less

Managers want to optimize their resources by loading them up and have them do more on the priority list to satisfy the executive suite. The optimum load is approximately 2 projects – one large and one small.

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Community Product Requirements Chart: Using Communities to Understand Customer Usage

Community Product Requirements Chart: Using Communities to Understand Customer Usage

The Community Product Requirements Chart is a tool that provides customer insights and creates opportunities for innovation.

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Lite Schedule Estimating Matrix

Execution: Quickly Estimating Accurate Project Schedules

The Lite Schedule Estimating Matrix is a tool that helps to estimate the amount of time a project will take in any given phase. It leverages past experience combined with the critical few, key drivers that impact a project’s schedule.

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Don’t Let Functional Silos Kill Your Agile Implementation

Don’t Let Functional Silos Kill Your Agile Implementation

Functional Silos lets the organizations to destroy Agile Implementation. When functional organizations do not support the transition to Agile, your implementation is defeated before it begins.

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Why Retrospectives are a Waste of Time

Preparation is key to a winning retrospective. The most important goals in most programs are time to market, a winning feature set, and quality.  The best method is to collect the events that impacted these factors using a timeline.

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Predictive Metrics - Measuring the right things to ensure project success

Predictive Metrics Tree: Measuring the Behaviors That Drive Results

The Predictive Metrics Tree is a tool that ensures that what you’re measuring helps you achieve your program goals. Learn to create Predictive Metrics Tree.

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Getting a Project Back on the Rails

Setting “boundary conditions” at the time of a project’s approval is an effective way to create a “contract” between the management and project teams.

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