Tag: Agile

  • An Indispensable Competency in an Agile Organization

    An Indispensable Competency in an Agile Organization

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    Fang Zhou
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    One of the most common reasons for project trouble or failure is an unsuitably large project scope.   The problem is not necessarily unrealistic goals or inadequate resources. When the large scope extends the project timeline far into the future, it risks becoming irrelevant before meaningful impact is achieved.  External circumstances simply change and invalidate the…

  • My First-hand Experience in Innovation

    My First-hand Experience in Innovation

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    Fang Zhou
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    As I look forward to the new year, I learned that ProtoArray protein microarray by ThermoFisher Scientific would be discontinued at the end of 2018.  ProtoArray is special to me because I spent the first six years of my industry career developing it from a concept from Mike Synder’s lab at Yale, to a global…