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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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Aging Fun with Drunk Agile (Video)

Johanna Rothman

Daniel Vacanti and Prateek Singh graciously invited* me to be on an episode of Drunk Agile: Episode 37 Johanna Rothman Part Deux More Bigger Aging. Ordering the work by value, even though agile approaches hope the value changes. (Re)defining That's why agile approaches emphasize “finish something and get feedback on it.”

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How to Create Better Products With Much Less of a Backlog

Johanna Rothman

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. Customers will not wait forever for you to fix problems in your product.

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How Cycle Time and Cost of Delay Makes Product Development Decisions Easier (Day 2)

Johanna Rothman

I finished one week of the videos for the writing workshop. Finish another week of videos for the writing workshop because I want to announce it “soon.” My cost of delay means that my first job is to finish the video editing for the writing workshop. (I I use Screenflow to take my Zoom videos and edit them.

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9 inspirational videos on leadership and change

Brimstone Consulting

The following 9 inspirational videos on leadership and change have been helpful for us and the leaders with whom we work. Grit, curiosity, agility, courage and so much more. In this spirited talk, he highlights three important changes we should understand for better productivity and calls for a stronger culture of “smart failure.”

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How You Can Find More Ease in Your Product Development (Day 5)

Johanna Rothman

The online workshop videos are complete. I also know my cycle times to develop workshops and video them. All this collaboration and learning together means the team shares its product development. If you're a product leader, you need a product value team. When Teachable settles down, I can start to upload.

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Easier Product Development Decisions and Why Backlogs Might Slow You Down (Day 3)

Johanna Rothman

I finished all the video editing for the writing workshop. At some point today, I plan to upload the videos to teachable. I don't have just one product for my business. And I'm not a team working on just one feature set or a product. I might or might not have finished the videos anyway. What happened?