The Agile Manifesto was written for software development and the 12 principles need adjustment for other applications. Auxilium distills them down to eight key principles for the development of manufactured products: Customer and stakeholder satisfaction is best achieved by incorporating their feedback from demonstrable output on a frequent cadence. Bureaucracy impedes agility. Enable autonomous teams […]
In working with hundreds of companies for over two decades, we’ve encountered several common themes where improvement is needed to avoid delays and achieve faster development. The obvious factors for increased speed are scope reduction and additional resources. The latter is rarely viable, and to be effective, resources need to be available early enough in […]
Innovation is crucial for any organization to compete, but many R&D teams have blinders on pursuing only technical innovation – and not necessarily making major advancements. R&D leaders put constraints on their organization’s competitive advantage by neglecting to innovate organizationally and culturally. Here are five trends that we’ve seen in companies that are thriving by […]
