I'm surprising myself with this experiment and the fact that I am continuing it. I suspect I'm successful because it's just a minute of some in-progress writing.
Transcript:
I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is 60 Seconds of Johanna’s WIP for November 9, 2023, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress.
This excerpt is from the Project Lifecycles book, almost ready for release.
No one cares about a team's agility—with the possible exception of the team itself. But managers and customers do care about better products. The managers care when the team can release those products—that's why managers use capitalization metrics. And the customers care about the value those products offer.
The more agile the approach, the faster the team can deliver value to the customers—without late learning. That's why more agility in product development matters.
Since each product has its own innovation risks, the more a team plans for more frequent feedback loops and decision points, the more agility the team will have.
That's why unplanned feedback loops kill efforts and make everyone's lives worse. Intentional feedback loops allow a team to manage project and innovation risks. Those intentional feedback loops help the team, and the various leaders recover from earlier decisions.