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

ProjectManager.com

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. What Is a Cross Functional Team?

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How Smart Managers Create an Innovation Culture

ProjectManager.com

Likely with good intention, since it is culture that enables groups of talented but different people to come together in a way that allows a project to be completed, a team to grow and success to be sustained. Another popular word that gets tossed around often is innovation. What Is Innovation? What Is Culture?

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Pilot Project: Meaning, Benefits and Example

ProjectManager.com

Many industries use pilot projects to test innovations, improve processes and reduce risks before full-scale implementation. Software Development and IT: In software and IT, pilot projects involve testing new applications, systems or cybersecurity measures with a small user group before a full rollout.

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Using Multi-Product/Portfolio Level Product/Agility Practices To Support Your Project To Product Operating Model Journey

Scrum.org

Theyve been told, You cant scale whats broken, so they wait until they nail agile at the team and product group level. We started introducing more and more agility principles and practices (eventually, they did reorganize to stream-aligned cross-product groups focused on the REAL product and leveraged team-level agile ways of working).

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Design Thinking: Human Centered Design for Innovative Problem-Solving

Project Bliss

Design Thinking is a human centered approach to innovative problem-solving. His company works with clients to successfully solve problems using innovation and Design Thinking approaches. Anyone who wants to solve a problem can use Design Thinking to find innovative solutions. What Is Design Thinking? 5 Phases of Design Thinking.

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The Transforming Dynamics of Project Management’s Future

The IIL Blog

These new projects are strategic in nature, such as innovation, research & development, new product development and strategic planning initiatives. Many of the traditional project management processes, tools, and techniques used in operational projects do not apply to strategic or innovation projects. Project Management (PM) 4.0

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Decision Making Tools for Group Decisions

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If you make decisions as a group but you don’t have everyone on the same page, you will lack the basis for your work, and that will lead to a flawed decision. The Group Decision Process. Making a decision as a group is a 3-step process: Deciding whether you need your team. Step 1: Deciding Whether You Need Your Team.