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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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Consulting Tip #6: Use Your Intellectual Property to Build Political Capital

Johanna Rothman

When I saw the McKinsey report on “developer productivity,” I shuddered. Second, there's no way to measure such a thing as developer productivity, despite what McKinsey says. Then I read Lorin Hochstein's brilliant assessment in On productivity metrics and management consultants.

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The ROI of eLearning: Measuring the Impact of Online Training on Organizational Success

Clarity Consultants

Instead, employees participate at times that are convenient to them, ensuring organizational productivity. eLearning consultants are learning and development (L&D) experts who harness their expertise to help companies create engaging, useful, and skill-building online courses. Companies don’t have to coordinate in-person sessions.

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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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What Does an Instructional Designer Do?

Clarity Consultants

While developing learning and development (L&D) strategies for their organization, many company leaders are introduced to the concept of instructional design. Instructional designers are professionals who focus on creating and delivering learning products, such as company training and coursework for educational institutions.

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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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Hey, What’s Going On?

CaseInterview.com

When I work with my CEO clients, one of the first things I do is develop my own situational awareness of their business. It’s important to be constantly monitoring key performance metrics so you can tell what’s going on in your business quantitatively. You also want to be developing a qualitative understanding of your business.