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Agile methodology has revolutionized the way software development teams operate, emphasizing flexibility, collaboration, and customer satisfaction. Central to the success of Agile are the clearly defined roles within the team. Each role carries specific responsibilities that ensure the team delivers high-quality software in an iterative and incremental manner. In this blog, we will explore the primary roles in an Agile team: the Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development Team, and other supporting roles that contribute to the Agile process.

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Unleash the Synergy: Marketing Collaboration & its Explosive Path to Success

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How does LeadSquared enhance collaboration among teams?

LeadSquared enhances collaboration among teams through features that facilitate communication, information sharing, and streamlined workflows. Here's how LeadSquared supports collaboration among teams:

Centralized Data:LeadSquared centralizes customer and lead data, providing a single source of truth for sales, marketing, and customer service teams.All team members can access up-to-date information about leads, customers, and interactions.

Shared Communication History:The platform logs all communication activities, including emails, calls, and interactions, in one place.Team members can review past interactions to understand the context of conversations.

Collaborative Workflows:LeadSquared allows you to set up automated workflows that involve multiple team members.For example, a workflow can automate handoffs between marketing and sales, ensuring a smooth transition.

Lead Assignment and Ownership:Easily assign leads to specific team members based on criteria such as geography, industry, or lead score.Ensure that the right team members are responsible for nurturing and converting leads.

Task Management and Delegation:Create tasks and assign them to team members for follow-up, calls, meetings, and other activities.Set due dates and priorities to keep everyone aligned on tasks.

Real-time Notifications:LeadSquared sends real-time notifications and alerts to team members for important activities or milestones.Team members stay informed about lead interactions, enabling prompt responses.

Collaboration Notes:Add internal notes to lead and customer profiles to share insights, updates, and important details with the team.Team members can collaborate and contribute to a comprehensive understanding of each customer.

Customization:Customize lead stages, fields, and processes to match your team's workflows and terminology.Ensure that LeadSquared aligns with your team's specific needs and processes.

Reports and Analytics:Access reports and dashboards to monitor team performance and track key metrics.Analyze data together to identify areas for improvement and success.

Mobile Access:LeadSquared's mobile app enables team members to access information, update records, and communicate while on the move.Facilitate collaboration even when team members are working remotely.

Lead Scoring and Prioritization:Team members can collaborate on lead scoring criteria to ensure leads are accurately prioritized.A shared understanding of lead quality enhances collaboration between marketing and sales.

Lead Notes and History:Review the history of lead interactions to understand past touchpoints and tailor future interactions.Collaborate on effective strategies based on the lead's journey.

By providing a unified platform for teams to work together, share information, and align on goals, LeadSquared fosters collaboration across sales, marketing, and customer service functions.

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Collaborative product development: Engaging stakeholders through mapping and co-creation.

At Shariwaa, we believe that collaborative product development is the key to creating innovative products that meet the needs of diverse stakeholders. In today's fast-paced business environment, it's more important than ever to engage stakeholders throughout the product development process, from ideation to launch. That's why we've developed a unique approach to collaborative product development that leverages mapping and co-creation to bring together diverse perspectives and ideas.

Collaborative Product Development: Engaging Stakeholders Through Mapping and Co-Creation :

In this article, we'll take a deep dive into our approach to collaborative product development, exploring the key techniques and tools we use to engage stakeholders and drive innovation. We'll cover everything from stakeholder mapping and persona development to ideation sessions and rapid prototyping.

Stakeholder Mapping: Identifying Key Players and Perspectives

The first step in our approach to collaborative product development is stakeholder mapping. We work with our clients to identify all of the key players involved in the product development process, from end-users and customers to internal stakeholders like product managers, engineers, and designers.

Once we've identified all of the key players, we develop a detailed stakeholder map that captures their perspectives and priorities. This map serves as a guide throughout the product development process, ensuring that all stakeholders are heard and their needs are addressed.

Persona Development: Creating Empathy and Understanding

With our stakeholder map in hand, we move on to persona development. Personas are fictional characters that represent different types of users or customers. By creating personas, we can better understand the needs and motivations of different stakeholders and design products that meet their specific needs.

Our persona development process involves extensive research, including interviews with real users and customers. We use this research to create detailed personas that capture the key attributes and pain points of each stakeholder group.

Ideation Sessions: Generating Ideas and Solutions

With our stakeholder map and personas in place, we move on to ideation sessions. Ideation sessions are collaborative brainstorming sessions where stakeholders come together to generate ideas and solutions.

Our ideation sessions are highly structured, with clear goals and constraints. We use a variety of ideation techniques, including brainstorming, mind mapping, and design thinking. The goal of these sessions is to generate a large number of ideas that can be evaluated and refined in the next phase of the product development process.

Rapid Prototyping: Bringing Ideas to Life

Once we've generated a large number of ideas, we move on to rapid prototyping. Rapid prototyping is the process of creating low-fidelity prototypes that can be quickly tested and refined.

Our rapid prototyping process is highly iterative, with multiple rounds of testing and feedback. We use a variety of prototyping techniques, including paper prototyping, wireframes, and interactive prototypes. The goal of this process is to quickly iterate on ideas and create a final product that meets the needs of all stakeholders.

Conclusion: Collaborative Product Development for Innovation

At Shariwaa, we believe that collaborative product development is the key to creating innovative products that meet the needs of diverse stakeholders. By leveraging mapping and co-creation techniques, we bring together diverse perspectives and ideas to drive innovation and create products that truly make a difference.

If you're interested in learning more about our approach to collaborative product development, we invite you to contact us today. Let us help you create the next big thing!

By implementing our approach to collaborative product development, you can ensure that your products meet the needs of all stakeholders and drive innovation in your organization. Contact Shariwaa today to learn more about

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By Matias Rodsevich

Today one of the key challenges most companies face is being able to scale rapidly while still keeping their innovative startup edge. Startups have less decision-makers, making it easier to take the risks needed to prioritize innovation in the workplace. As these companies start to grow, they often experience a downturn in innovation as management layers increase. In fact, many larger corporations are now attempting to harvest the success of startups by creating small internal companies. This begs the question: do you have to stay small to increase innovation in the workplace?

According to the Economist’s study on organizational agility, the main obstacles to improved business responsiveness are slow decision-making, conflicting departmental goals and priorities, risk-averse cultures and silo-based information. This isn’t a problem that faces a select number of companies. A survey by McKinsey&Company found that 94 percent of managers are unhappy with their company’s innovation in the workplace performance. The good news is that you don’t have to stay small to avoid these common growth pitfalls. Instead follow these three performance management must haves:

Risk-taking

Create a culture in which risk-taking is encouraged. Fear of failure is one of the most common inhibitors of innovation in the workplace. Someone may have a great idea, but concern for their job security may keep them from taking the risk to try something new or challenge traditional strategies. Top companies are now taking the opposite approach. Google X, the company’s secret innovation lab, allows googlers to explore game-changing ideas consequence-free. It’s here that the fantasy of self-driving cars became a reality and inventions such as hoverboards and smart contact lenses have been tested. The criteria are that these ideas actually have to be radical sci-fi sounding inventions, which will help solve a global problem in the next 10 years.

To encourage employees to take risks, managers must give them more space and autonomy to develop early-stage ideas. To make this work, a high degree of accountability is also needed. One of the toughest tasks for managers is learning how to keep up accountability within the team, without micromanaging. Creating a set of goals your employees can work towards on their own will allow you to be hands-off, but still check in from time to time and offer guidance.

Increase Learning Agility

Exploring new ideas is not enough when working on innovation in the workplace. The key to being truly innovative is taking risks, and then learning from your experiences. People with a high learning agility are able to take feedback and adjust strategies accordingly, without becoming discouraged. For businesses, having a highly agile workforce means employees can be re-skilled quickly to meet new company goals and strategies based on industry trends. A study on learning agility in the workforce concluded that companies with the highest amount of high-learning agile executives produced 25 percent higher profit margins than their rivals. A series of studies by BTM Corporation on business agility concluded that companies with highly mature business characteristics demonstrated:

13 percent to 38 percent performance advantage in capital efficiency and value;

10 percent to 15 percent performance advantage in margins;

Up to 5 percent performance advantage in revenue and earnings growth.

Supporting continuous and disruptive learning centered on the competencies that characterize the company’s competitive nature will help managers ramp up their team’s performance. To create this type of work environment, managers must focus on metrics-driven skill development and real-time learning. The more training and practice employees get in giving and receiving feedback effectively, the better they’ll become at tracking their own performance and integrating feedback into their development game plan.

Creating Cross-functional Teams

Often large companies will find that different departments begin to become silos of information, leading to a duplication of work and inter-departmental conflicts. A lack of communication and knowledge-sharing across the organization leads to a failure to utilize all resources available on a project, thereby significantly lengthening timelines.

As a result, many companies are now harnessing the benefits of cross-functional teams. These teams consist of members with different skill sets and are grouped together on an ad hoc basis to tackle particular projects. Organizing teams in this way creates a smaller pool of decision-makers and allows the team to benefit from cross-departmental knowledge. Combining the strengths of each person allows these teams to come up with more insightful and out of the box ideas, thus increasing innovation in the workplace.

The ability to quickly form cross-functional teams can greatly increase organizational agility. However, managers need more accurate performance data to quickly identify the employees with the appropriate skills needed to meet the company’s shifting goals. At the same time, performance data also gives HR better insights into what’s missing so they can address skill gaps with more targeted training efforts. Over time, acquiring a growing library of data enables companies to more effectively deploy fast acting and effective teams.

The original version of this article was first published on blog.impraise.com

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Important Ways HRs can Effectively Manage Cross-Functional Team

Ø Outline a Team Charter

Ø Clearly have the Goals & Objectives Defined

Ø Find Common Grounds for Cross-Team Collaboration

Ø Negotiate Resources Fairly & in an Effective Manner

Ø Use Common Points to Solve Core Problems

Ø Assist Team Members Connect with Each Other

Ø Effectively Communicate & Constantly Re-evaluate

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Amplifying Teams: Product Management in a New Model

The software development landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. No longer is it solely the domain of engineers, coders, and architects. A new era is dawning, one where AI is empowering teams of all disciplines to contribute directly to the product development process. This paradigm shift is not just about efficiency; it's about unlocking the full potential of your workforce. Traditionally, software development has been resource-intensive. Teams were large, specialized, and often siloed. The demands of complex projects required significant engineering expertise. This model, while effective, was also limiting. It constrained the number of teams that could be formed, hindering the organization's ability to innovate rapidly. Enter AI. By automating routine tasks, providing intelligent code suggestions, and offering real-time insights, AI is dramatically enhancing the capabilities of development teams. This technological leapfrog is creating a new model where smaller, cross-functional teams can achieve the output of larger, traditionally structured ones. Imagine a scenario where a product owner, armed with AI-powered tools, can not only define product requirements but also contribute directly to the product's architecture. Or a designer who, with the help of AI, can translate their designs into functional code prototypes. This is no longer a futuristic vision; it's becoming a reality. How do you get there? To realize this potential, organizations must embrace a culture of technical empowerment. Product owners, product managers, and other non-technical roles need to be equipped with the necessary tools and training to engage with technical aspects of the product. This doesn't mean everyone needs to become a full-stack developer. Rather, it's about developing a basic understanding of coding, system architecture, and software development processes. AI can act as a bridge, making the technical world accessible to a wider audience. By providing user-friendly interfaces, intelligent code suggestions, and automated testing, AI can significantly lower the barrier to entry for non-technical roles. This democratization of technology has far-reaching implications. Leverage correctly to be an accelerator Firstly, it accelerates product development. When more people are involved in the process, there's a greater pool of ideas, leading to faster innovation. Secondly, it improves product quality. A deeper understanding of technical constraints and possibilities among non-technical roles leads to more realistic product requirements and better-aligned designs. Thirdly, it enhances collaboration. When teams share a common language and understanding of the product, communication becomes smoother, and problems are solved more efficiently. Of course, this transformation requires careful planning and execution. Organizations need to invest in AI tools, provide comprehensive training, and foster a culture of experimentation. It's essential to establish clear guidelines and processes to ensure that AI is used effectively and ethically. The future of software development is bright. By leveraging AI to empower cross-functional teams, organizations can unlock new levels of productivity, innovation, and agility. It's a journey that requires courage, investment, and a willingness to embrace change. But the rewards are immense. Know any teams or organizations that want people like this? Here at Agile Rant we know a great technical product manager that can help teams do work in this model and happens to be looking for that next role. If want to connect, hit us up AR@AgileRant.Info to setup a connection. #technology #softwaredevelopment #productdevelopment #productmanagement #software #communications #agile #scrum #devops #engineering #techindustry #digitaltransformation artificialintelligence #ai #machinelearning #automation #robotics #techtrends #futureofwork teamenpowerment #crossfunctionalteams #collaboration #teamwork #empowerment #diversityandinclusion aitech #aipowered #softwareengineering #productstrategy #techleadership #innovation #productivity #efficiency Read the full article