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How to Manage a Cross-Functional Team: Tools and Strategies

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Usually, a cross-functional team is created to spark innovation, break bureaucratic boundaries and reduce production cycle times by granting a more collaborative environment. This creative approach can lead to innovation, which can be a substantial market advantage over the competition. Cross-functional agile teams are common.

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Embracing Positive Risk: A Path to Innovation

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We spend countless hours developing strategies to prevent bad outcomes, such as project failures, missed deadlines, and unmet expectations. By overemphasizing downside risk, we can inadvertently create environments that stifle innovation and creativity. For more, subscribe to the Unstuck Agile newsletter !

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Balancing Operational Excellence with Innovation

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How many people struggle with juggling Business as usual (BAU) operations as well as delivering products to customers and well as investing in innovation? Some teams even use their BAU workload as a reason that they can’t go agile? The “Build” part was “Agile”. They were essentially “Run” teams building and tweaking stuff.

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There's more to Organizational Agility than the Scrum Guide

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While the guide hints at the need for organizational changes that support Agility, these changes are not described by the Scrum guide. That's because the organization needs to figure out how to best use Agility within their unique environment. It's not enough to just say, "Yes, let's be Agile".

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Innovating and Driving Agility with Tech: No-Code Development

Speaker: Gautam Nimmagadda, CEO, Quixy

Join Gautam Nimmagadda, CEO of Quixy, and learn how to leverage tech and drive agility with citizen development and the no-code movement. How to recognize emerging trends in tech today and leverage them to stay agile for a holistic business strategy. Tuesday December 15th, 2020 at 11AM PST, 2PM EST, 7PM GMT

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7 Ways Project Manager Roles Are Changing

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Software innovation has also impacted the role of project managers with task automation and workflow automation that can automate task dependencies, approvals and notifications, streamlining workflows. Strategy Map Template A strategy map is a visual representation that shows the cause-and-effect of a strategic objective.

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Agile Leadership for Startups: Evolving Growth with Flexibility and Vision

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In such situations, agile leadership provides a valuable differentiator. Agile leadership, which considers itself flexible, collaborative, and value-driven, plays a perfect role in the very special needs of startups. Let's investigate how agile leadership can help startups endure and thrive in such conditions in the present scenario.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. Register today!

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Encouraging Innovation in an Established Product Culture

Speaker: Richard Cardran, Chief Creative Officer and VP Strategy, HIA Technologies

Innovation is both a process and an outcome. The best way to begin innovating your products is by innovating your internal process. Innovation and Leadership go hand in hand. Join this webinar to learn how to: Turn a stagnant culture into an attention culture with highly collaborative team dynamics.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

Understanding these trends is not only essential to staying ahead of the curve, but critical for those striving to remain competitive and innovative in an increasingly data-driven world. Our esteemed speakers will discuss the emerging trends shaping the future of product management and business intelligence.