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Creating a Culture of High Performance
This article is part of a series on transforming into a high-performance digital organization. To explore the six key themes and start your transformation journey, click here → Creating a high-performance culture is essential for sustaining the benefits of agile and DevOps practices. A culture that fosters a growth mindset, encourages continuous learning, and ensures psychological safety…
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Transforming into a High-Performance Digital Organization (HPDO): Six Key Themes
Based on extensive research and practical engagement with organizations of varying sizes and across continents, DASA has identified six critical themes essential for achieving High-Performance Digital Organizations (HPDOs). These themes form the cornerstone of successful digital transformation initiatives, addressing most encountered challenges and promising opportunities faced by enterprises. Each organization is unique, with its own…
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Measuring and Communicating Value Realization
Platform engineering teams are the backbone of many organizations, yet their contributions often remain hidden, operating behind the scenes to ensure seamless development and infrastructure operations. Understanding and communicating the value of these teams is crucial to ensure efforts align with broader business objectives. The Three Steps to Realizing Value There are three key steps…
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Four Challenges of Platform Teams: Insights from ThoughtWorks Experts
Platform engineering is crucial to driving innovation, scaling development, and ensuring seamless integration across organizations. As platform engineers, we often face complex challenges that require strategic solutions, a deep understanding of technology, and the ability to align with broader business goals. In this article, we share our experiences working within platform engineering and discuss some…
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Elevating Product Success: Maximizing Value, Impact, and Experience
In the dynamic realm of product management, the triad of value, impact, and experience stands as the cornerstone for the success of any product. These core concepts dictate not only a product’s market relevance but also its ability to exceed customer expectations and achieve business goals. In this blog post, we delve into the foundational…
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Strengthening Your Portfolio Board: Best Practices for Desired Behavior
Understanding the Challenge A strong and effective portfolio board is crucial for the success of portfolio management within any organization. The portfolio board is responsible for overseeing the collection of projects, products, or services, ensuring they align with strategic goals and deliver maximum value. However, poor communication and collaboration within the portfolio board can significantly…
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Customer-Centric Engineering: Prioritizing User Needs in Platform Development
According to Gartner’s research, 80% of enterprises will establish platform teams by 2026 as internal providers of reusable IT infrastructure services, components, and tools for smooth application delivery. However, this shift brings unique challenges and risks for enterprises and their leaders. Among these challenges, one of the most critical is the need to adopt a…
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Developing Compelling Product Visions: Guide Your Team Towards Success
In product development, a clear product vision sets the direction and goals, guiding teams as they create and refine their offerings. Product managers often face the challenge of defining a vision that aligns with stakeholder expectations and the ever-evolving market needs. This article aims to highlight the importance of a strong product vision in driving…
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How to Assess and Improve Your Team’s Capabilities in Product Management
The role of product management is increasingly crucial, serving as a key driver of innovation and strategic alignment within organizations. It ensures products meet customer needs and company goals. Yet, navigating new technologies, diverse projects, and changing customer expectations presents challenges that can cause inefficiencies and misalignments. This underscores the need for regular assessment and…
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Understanding Product Management: Bridging the gap with Project Management
Product Management emerges as a pivotal discipline in the dynamic realm of DevOps, playing a crucial role in the comprehensive process of planning, developing, and managing a product throughout its lifecycle. This includes defining the product’s features, ensuring its quality, and consistently aligning with customer needs. Product Managers lead the charge, steering the product vision,…
