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Do We Need ‘Agile’ Leadership?

Agile Coach

Does anyone remember when Agile Readiness Assessments were all the rage in 2008/2009? We don’t need Agile Leadership because to take an idea from famed economist Adam Smith, two things will never change: Competition and Innovation. As we complete more, we drive up the need for innovation.

Agile 101
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Balance Your Portfolio with the Product Portfolio Matrix

Roman Pichler

This is due to their tendency to optimise structures and processes for managing existing, successful assets, which makes it hard to deal with the amount of innovation and risk present in new and young products. Wave was discontinued about a year after its launch in 2009. It never experienced stardom and died as a question mark.

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The Urge to Strangle(The Strangler Pattern)

Leading Agile

Business agility means having the capability to “turn on a dime” at low cost and with low risk, to drive innovation, respond to market changes, and overcome the competition. Consider the scope of the case studies from his article, and compare them with typical enterprise-scale IT environments: Airline Booking.

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The Product Strategy and the Product Life Cycle

Roman Pichler

In 2009, sales started to decline. Innovation : Knowing at which life cycle stages their products are, enables organisations to balance their portfolios, invest early enough in new offerings, and retire declining products, as I describe in more detail in my article The Product Portfolio Matrix.

Vision 133
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Three Best Practices for ASC 718 Reporting

Insight Software

In 2006, FAS123R contained new standards, which were reclassified in 2009 as ASC718. In small startups that are long on innovation and short on formal processes, you may be tempted to embark on the process of equity compensation reporting using Excel spreadsheets, hand-keyed data, and complex inline formulas.