Business Process Team

The Agile (Communication) Revolution

September 27, 2019

There have been a number of recent articles documenting Airbus 737 Max failures. Coming from an aviation engineering background, I am fascinated by mainstream coverage of a world I inhabited for years. One article in particular caught my eye. Bloomberg ran a piece on Boeing’s practice of outsourcing aspects of software development to less costly developers in other countries; the implication being that the practice was partially to blame.

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6 Tips for Facilitating Effective Roadmapping and Story Mapping Sessions

June 28, 2019

Roadmapping and story mapping are effective ways to align teams around a set direction. It can even help facilitate future conversations of prioritization and backlog grooming.

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Business

Development Practice Lead, Josh Friend on What's Possible in Technology

December 12, 2019

As the Development Practice Lead at Michigan Software Labs, I’ve had the unique opportunity to have a small role in most of the digital products that we develop for our clients. This has given me the perspective that nearly anything is possible when it comes to what a client wants to develop - technology is rarely the barrier stopping progress.

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