Consulting Demo Metrics Productivity 
Johanna Rothman
JANUARY 31, 2024
The goal to release the product. When the team can focus on the product, as a cross-functional team, they can create some agility. See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for more information. This can work well if you demo something at least monthly once you start writing code and tests. That's fine.
Johanna Rothman
MARCH 18, 2024
I assume you have some sort of functional product development expertise. If not, why are you in technical product development? This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility. First, the product-based expertise. That's often product people, testers, and some UI/UX people.
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Johanna Rothman
MARCH 6, 2024
They are: Understand the various risks: project, product, and organization, and how to manage those risks with feedback loops. And product development has at least these risks: Project-based risks, so we can make effective tradeoffs. See How Product Risks Differ from Project Risks for a brief discussion of those two kinds of risks.)
Johanna Rothman
MARCH 26, 2024
In innovative products, the interdependencies can change any day. If your product does not need much innovation, you can plan for longer and know you will meet that plan. Those are the kinds of products that do not require much, if any, innovation. In addition, I ask teams to show visual progress , such as in a demo.
Johanna Rothman
MARCH 30, 2020
If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. The better the team learns together, the better the product is. See Product Orientation Requires Technical Excellence ).
Johanna Rothman
JANUARY 10, 2024
When I work with these teams or their managers, I realize they're not demoing or retrospecting on a regular basis. Worse, these people and teams don't feel any satisfaction with their products. And don't get me started on how coaches tend to do life coaching instead of support for agility.) ” There are many better ways.
Johanna Rothman
JULY 27, 2023
In addition, a product leader might approve the feature. Finally, the team, a product leader, or the customer(!) might demo the feature. That defect escaped all your checklists, approvals, and demos. Yes, they had to spend time fixing those problems, but they were under no illusions about the quality of the product.
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