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Fun Discussion with Luke Pivac About Agility and Employment

Johanna Rothman

Here's the video: We discussed several topics: My recent Unemployed Agilists posts. That link just goes to the first post) My most recent book: Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. Luke Pivac, a colleague from New Zealand, interviewed me last week. I hope you enjoy this one.

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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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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

Substitute video for MBWAL. If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. The better the team learns together, the better the product is.

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

Substitute video for MBWAL. If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. The better the team learns together, the better the product is.

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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WhatsApp Grew to One Billion Users by Focusing on Product, Not Technology

Harvard Business

That’s our product, and that’s our passion. It launched a product, gathered feedback, and kept iterating as it scaled and added users. At the other is a product or service that solves the problem or addresses the market in a way nobody has thought of before. Your data isn’t even in the picture.

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NewTV Is the Antithesis of a Lean Startup. Can It Work?

Harvard Business

NewTV, a new company focused on short-form video, just raised $1 billion dollars. NewTV is the creation of Jeffrey Katzenberg, whose track record includes head of production at Paramount, chair of Walt Disney Studios, and cofounder of DreamWorks. CSA Images/Colin McPherson/Getty Images. It’s the antithesis of the lean startup.