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An Agile Approach to Change Management
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Embracing Agile
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How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleCross-functional groups often have different incentives. -
Agile Doesn’t Work Without Psychological Safety
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Using Sprints to Boost Your Sales Team's Performance
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleThis technique, adopted from agile, can help sales teams achieve long-term strategy shifts, while still driving results. -
When Waterfall Principles Sneak Back Into Agile Workflows
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Your Agile Project Needs a Budget, Not an Estimate
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Should I Pitch a New Project-Management System? (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleCynthia is a newly hired software developer at MainFrame, which uses Scrum to manage projects. But she agrees with her coworkers that the company's methodical... -
The Agile Family Meeting
Meeting management Digital ArticleA simple framework to manage chaos, get along better, and reduce stress. -
Better Project Management
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleProjects have displaced operations as the economic engine of our times, but despite this shift, many leaders still undervalue project management. Companies... -
What the Next Generation of Project Management Will Look Like
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How Project Managers Can Stay Relevant in Agile Organizations
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How Learning and Development Are Becoming More Agile
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleAs the workforce evolves, so must training programs. -
Bring Agile to the Whole Organization
Organizational Development Digital ArticleYour tech team can't be truly agile if HR, finance, and management aren't. -
An Agile Approach to Budgeting for Uncertain Times
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThe pandemic is making the annual process even more challenging. -
Build a Better Dashboard for Your Agile Project
Analytics and data science Digital ArticleProject managers often struggle to get the data they need — or to find it in a sea of data they don’t. -
Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile
Strategic planning Digital ArticleEvery organization makes plans. They don’t have to be rigid and bureaucratic. -
4 Ways Silicon Valley Changed How Companies Are Run
Organizational Development Digital ArticleAnd what legacy companies can learn from their success. -
Drive Innovation with Better Decision-Making
Innovation & Leadership Magazine ArticleDespite their embrace of agile methods, many firms striving to innovate are struggling to produce breakthrough ideas. A key culprit, according to the... -
How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed
Change management Digital ArticleThey’re better at handling variable and unpredictable situations.
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Bus Uncle Chatbot - Creating a Successful Digital Business (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case study is set in September 2016 to April 2021. It describes how Abhilash Murthy used the Digital Product Management (DPM) framework to create... -
Transport Solutions: TCS Helps its Transformation to an Agile Enterprise
Management Case Study8.95View Details Transport Solutions was a global travel services company with headquarters in the United Kingdom (UK). It had a matrix organization design with 5 lines... -
iPhone's Supply Chain Under Threat
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The outbreak of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease, 2019) posed unprecedented challenges to the global supply chains. As a leading and innovative supply chain... -
Humanocracy, Revised and Updated: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them
Management BookA "Wall Street Journal" Bestseller. In a world of unrelenting change and unprecedented challenges, we need organizations that are resilient and daring.... -
Transforming Government Through Holacracy
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Companies are experimenting with novel forms of organization that distribute power to all workers and decrease or remove the role entirely of the traditional... -
The Year in Tech, 2024: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech--all in one place. Generative AI, Web3, neurotech, reusable rockets to power the space economy--new technologies... -
OneBlood and COVID-19: Building an Agile Supply Chain
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The blood supply chain is under pressure from COVID-19. How should the 3rd largest blood bank in the US, OneBlood, respond? Is adopting an agile supply... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Projects and Initiatives (with bonus article "The Rise of the Chief Project Officer" by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez)
Management Book24.95View Details Everyone is now a project leader--learn how to manage them more effectively. If you read nothing else on managing projects and initiatives, read these... -
redBus: Art and Science of Product Management
Management Case Study8.95View Details The PM begins with exploring the problem space, gaining an understanding of the larger context of the problem, namely the online bus travel sector in... -
Changing the Landscape at Arcane: Implementation
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OneBlood and COVID-19: Building an Agile Supply Chain, Epilogue
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Bus Uncle Chatbot - Creating a Successful Digital Business (C)
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TCS: Agility at Scale-Managing Change
Management Case Study8.95View Details The head of Agile Initiative Network (AIN) at TCS, an India based multinational IT services-consulting-business solutions enterprise, has been mandated... -
Continuous Design Using Hypothesis-Driven Development
Management Case Study8.95View Details This technical note introduces readers to two important concepts involving design in the digital sphere: continuous design and hypothesis-driven design... -
Digital Product Management under Extreme Uncertainty: The Singapore TraceTogether Story for COVID-19 Contact Tracing (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case depicts Singapore's TraceTogether (TT) story, beginning in early 2020 when COVID-19 was spreading globally with ravaging effects. TT was the... -
Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook: How to Launch, Lead, and Sponsor Successful Projects
Strategy & Execution BookThe one primer you need to launch, lead, and sponsor successful projects. We're now living in the project economy. The number of projects initiated in... -
The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed
Imagine if the multinational hotel groups had founded Airbnb, or the big auto companies had launched Uber and Tesla, or Blockbuster had created Netflix.... -
Play@Work at Yonyou: A Warm Cultural Empowerment Tool
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Bengaluru Airport: Crisis Leadership through a Pandemic
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Product Development at StubHub: Don't Stop Believin'
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An Agile Approach to Change Management
Agile project management Digital ArticleSix lessons on moving quickly under pressure. -
Embracing Agile
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleOver the past 25 to 30 years, agile innovation methods have greatly increased success rates in software development, improved quality and speed to market,... -
Changing the Landscape at Arcane: Squad Structure, Teaching Note
Management Digital ArticleTeaching Note for Case W29999 -
How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleCross-functional groups often have different incentives. -
Bus Uncle Chatbot - Creating a Successful Digital Business (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case study is set in September 2016 to April 2021. It describes how Abhilash Murthy used the Digital Product Management (DPM) framework to create... -
Transport Solutions: TCS Helps its Transformation to an Agile Enterprise
Management Case Study8.95View Details Transport Solutions was a global travel services company with headquarters in the United Kingdom (UK). It had a matrix organization design with 5 lines... -
iPhone's Supply Chain Under Threat
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The outbreak of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease, 2019) posed unprecedented challenges to the global supply chains. As a leading and innovative supply chain... -
Humanocracy, Revised and Updated: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them
Management BookA "Wall Street Journal" Bestseller. In a world of unrelenting change and unprecedented challenges, we need organizations that are resilient and daring.... -
Transforming Government Through Holacracy
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Companies are experimenting with novel forms of organization that distribute power to all workers and decrease or remove the role entirely of the traditional... -
Transport Solutions: TCS Helps its Transformation to an Agile Enterprise, Teaching Note
Management Digital ArticleTeaching note for case IMB981.