Johanna Rothman

MAY 16, 2019

I suggested ways to think about more agile budgeting in part 1. I evaluate the plan—my products, services, and clients—on a regular basis. You can use real data. If you measure cycle time, you can look for historical data about when teams start something new. I didn't tell you why. I always evaluate monthly.

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 5, 2024

Digital Infrastructure Optimization Consultants assist companies in optimizing their digital infrastructure, including IT systems, networks, cloud services, cybersecurity protocols, and data management strategies. Data Analytics and Insights Harnessing the power of data is critical for informed decision-making and competitive advantage.

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Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 19, 2024

Security and Data Protection Ensuring the security of online transactions, customer data, and sensitive information is paramount for retail brands. Compliance with industry regulations and data protection standards is also a priority. This optimization enhances customer satisfaction and reduces bounce rates.

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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. See Three Tips to Focus to Deliver Better Products Faster.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 9, 2020

In the agile and lean communities, we talk a lot about transparency. This image is the transparency principle we used in From Chaos to Distributed Agile Teams. I see the most product and program success when the various teams create transparency between them, the middle of the continuum. That's the full-product transparency.

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 11, 2024

By tapping into consultants’ expertise, clients gain access to valuable insights, benchmarking data, and proven strategies that drive informed decision-making and operational excellence. A survey by PwC revealed that 61% of CEOs believe that industry-specific insights are critical for business growth. trillion by 2025.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

By Ayman Sayed, President and Chief Product Officer, CA Technologies. But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? We’re all striving to deliver better products faster to meet customer needs in the marketplace and stay ahead of the competition.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. Production performance. What is “center-led”. The “center-led” concept provides that logic.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

That’s our product, and that’s our passion. Your data isn’t even in the picture. It launched a product, gathered feedback, and kept iterating as it scaled and added users. At the other is a product or service that solves the problem or addresses the market in a way nobody has thought of before.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Especially now that more teams tend to work on a variety of work—not just one product's stories—I find story points less useful. I find it difficult to compare story points across feature sets or products. I wrote about how to estimate with cycle time and counting stories in Create Your Successful Agile Project.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Defining and tracking success metrics. Core Competencies.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

But it’s important to remember what comes between the motivated employee and the satisfied customer: the innovative product or service that the employee creates and the company sells. With the rapid development of the Internet of Things , incorporating up-to-the-minute digital technology has become critical to its product innovation.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment. Digitally sustainable organizations are agile: They think fast, decide fast, execute fast, fail fast, learn fast, and scale fast. Discipline and Focus.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. Based on these marketing insights, Intuit created a new feature within its app that combines location data, Google maps, and the user’s calendar to automatically track mileage and simplify year-end tax planning. The metrics also changed.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 24, 2024

The first image on the left is their raw spreadsheet data. Yes, this is real data from a client, and I anonymized it. Note several things about this data: No one finishes anything on the weekend. Partly because they also do production support—but those are mostly cycle times of 2-3 days. But they are not predictable.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

But since Tom’s boss was under pressure to meet a number of website metrics, she didn’t have the flexibility to implement his ideas. It’s not often possible to ignore performance metrics or overcome policies and bureaucratic red-tape. .” At first, Tom wasn’t deterred.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

However, many are not equipped to confront the legion of new, more agile competitors—and run the danger of becoming the losers in that war. How Banks Are Capitalizing on a New Wave of Big Data and Analytics. Is your content discoverable across product lines and business units? Tomorrow’s IME Landscape. Reusability.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? As companies move to more agile operating models , they must learn to balance accountability with autonomy. Banks emphasizing products, meanwhile, have turned to partnerships.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

For the growing companies, it’s crucially important to keep track of all their products and make sure they are in demand and meet customers’ needs. A good way to increase profitability is to work on the products that will definitely bring revenue and make the right improvements that people are expecting.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

In 2012, GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt launched GE’s digital strategy to connect minds and machines, combining a legacy of innovative industrial manufacturing with cutting-edge data and analytics expertise. ” Failure to grasp such disruptions — and adapt quickly — can be fatal. Today, this tension is perilous for CEOs.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

By Surya Panditi, GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. So organizations today are staying ahead of the curve by scaling agile and building agility into everything they do, and extending agile techniques and practices across teams, teams-of-teams, non-IT organizations and even across the business as a whole.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

In addition, a product leader might approve the feature. Finally, the team, a product leader, or the customer(!) But if you are similar to one of my long-ago clients, they could plan on too many defect escapes every time they released another version of the product. See What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context?

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Progressus

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These forces encompass digitization, the adoption of data-centric business strategies, the ongoing recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, and more. Digital Agility: Technology enables greater adaptability in response to changing conditions, helping firms accelerate digital transformation and optimize various aspects of their operations.

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1 to 1

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), Customer Effort Score (CES), and Net Promoter Score (NPS) metrics have long been invaluable tools in the industry, but it’s critical to recognize that these metrics on their own cannot improve customer experience. What is a CSAT rating? How to improve CSAT. What is a CES rating?

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Comatch

MARCH 22, 2022

However, there are very few metrics to really measure this. And the available metrics, at least on a company level, are not very forward-looking for decision-makers or people who want to invest. We are a technology company focusing on the intersection of data and analytics. Take the oil and gas industry. How do you do this?

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2023

How satisfied are we with our people, product, and cultural leadership? Are we retaining the people we want, releasing the products we want, and creating an environment that frees people to do their best jobs? I wanted honest data, not data that the leader might fudge to get a better “grade.” Just nutso.)

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Along the way, there’s been plenty of literature and executive hand-wringing over hiring and deploying ever-scarce data scientists to make this happen. Translators are neither data architects nor data engineers. improving product quality in manufacturing) or cross-organizational initiatives (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

For example, devices like home assistants and wearables provide new signals to help marketers better understand how and when people are looking for answers to questions or researching products. Leaders are making strategic investments in data and technology , and they are 1.6x more likely to prioritize integrating technology.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

We’re talking digitization and the shift toward data-first business strategies. Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. Professional services firms must move fast to accelerate digital transformation, build a unified data strategy, and lock down a competitive advantage.

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