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Writing Secret 6: Help Your Reader Feel Smart

Johanna Rothman

I was clever in the title for my Is Your Product Owner an Overloaded Operator? Many product owners are technical. I could have used a different title, such as “Product Owners: Overloaded and Underappreciated,” and helped my ideal readers feel smart. My title confused some of my ideal readers. Not confused.

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

Johanna Rothman

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. However, when I switched to continuous flow, I have a different approach to my planning and sizing of my work: I have a yearly strategy with the answers to who I serve with which products and services. What happened?

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Remote Work: Ways to Think About “Fair” Compensation and Benefits

Johanna Rothman

And she wants the teams to create products the customers want to buy. Jenny has experienced what many of you have, too: Collaborative teams with diverse experiences can develop products customers want to buy. Over her career, Jenny has learned that it's easier to sell more product than to manage costs. Learn with Johanna.

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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

Professional services is an expansive space spanning several industries – consulting firms, software publishers, IT service providers, even manufacturers and distributors that offer post-sale services — each with its own set of challenges, regulations, and opportunities. They provide customized, knowledge-based services to their clients.

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From meeting-heavy to essential meetings only

Asamby Consulting

Reform your team’s meeting habits to boost productivity and business impact as a CEO (a post-pandemic approach). Too many meetings will slowly weaken productivity by splintering everyone's work into small chunks and reducing their time for deep work. And with less productivity comes less impact and/or innovation.

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3 Major Forces Disrupting and Transforming the Professional Services Landscape

Progressus

As an example, just look at legacy consulting. Forrester’s 2022 Predictions includes an important statistic that underscores this point: roughly 80% of consumers view the world as all digital — there is no divide. Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. The one-size-fits-all model doesn’t cut it anymore.

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