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Unemployed Agilists: How to Show Your Value to Support What Managers Want, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

Every day, I hear more stories of agile coaches or Scrum Masters losing their jobs. Several reasons: No manager cares about “agile” even if they care about agility. So, selling “agile” into the organization doesn’t create any traction for change. You might not like these ideas.

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How to Create Better Products With Much Less of a Backlog

Johanna Rothman

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for why this happens.) Remember this: If your customers want to use your product, make it easy for them to do so. Because product problems cause several other problems: The customers have to decide if the aggravation of using this product outweighs the defects.

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How to Move from Story Points and Magical Thinking to Cycle Time for Decisions

Johanna Rothman

The first image on the left is their raw spreadsheet data. Yes, this is real data from a client, and I anonymized it. Note several things about this data: No one finishes anything on the weekend. Partly because they also do production support—but those are mostly cycle times of 2-3 days. But they are not predictable.

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Startup Businesses with Professional Consulting Services

Business Consulting Agency

Market Validation and Product Development Consulting services play a crucial role in validating market demand and refining product/service offerings for startups. Consultants conduct market validation exercises, customer surveys, prototype testing, and feedback analysis to validate product-market fit and identify areas for improvement.

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Leveraging Consultants: Critical Digital Support

Business Consulting Agency

They assist businesses in defining their unique value proposition, optimizing product positioning, and identifying target markets for strategic growth. They leverage market insights, industry expertise, and data-driven analysis to create actionable strategies that drive revenue growth and market share.

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Two Ways (& One Caution) to Use an Iteration Contents Chart to See Project Progress

Johanna Rothman

The first way to use an iteration contents chart is to gather data and answer questions. The product leader had changed out one story and added that new story in. ” After much loud discussion, the product leader agreed. One was help a different team see their multitasking data. See the flow metrics newsletter.)

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Are You Data-Driven or Data-Informed?

Johanna Rothman

I delivered a webinar called Agile Metrics for Team and Product Progress last week, thanks to the nice folks at Innovation Roots. One person gave me a new saying about metrics (at the end, during the Q&A): Are you data-driven or data-informed? I don’t use velocity as a personal piece of data.).

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