Agile Demo Productivity Strategy 
Johanna Rothman
AUGUST 19, 2021
So when does it make sense to customize your agile approach to gain a strategic advantage? Example 1: Startup/Small Organization with Few Products. They offer their product in two versions: Pro and Lite. They want an agile approach, so they started with Scrum. Some of the regular product teams figured out one-day stories.
Johanna Rothman
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. Their products and services did not ship outside the building—their products and services enabled the organization to make money. Demo that value on a regular cadence. How do we create partnerships?
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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. In addition, I ask teams to show visual progress , such as in a demo.
Johanna Rothman
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
But there are several problems with all this planning: These plans require prediction at all levels, from strategy to product to what the team delivers. However, too often, the managers prevent product innovations or strategy changes because they planned so much. Does this sound a lot like what agile teams do?
Johanna Rothman
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The first is that Brooks strongly suggested the idea of a “surgical team” That hierarchical team was a feature- or product-based team. Ten people, seven of them professionals, are at work on the problem, but the system is the product of one mind–or at most two, acting uno animo.”
Johanna Rothman
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
You know you need more feedback and resilience in your project/program, so you’ve created a product value team to reassess the roadmap on a regular basis. They need to plan on revenue from products and services. If you work at a place new to agile approaches, work on streamlining the releases so you always release once a month.
Progressus
OCTOBER 27, 2023
And —rather than selling physical products, they deal in less tangible resources like time, insights, and expertise – billed either by hour or by project. And it’s those common links that inform tech investments, transformation strategies, and how firms respond to the disruptive forces that define the modern business landscape.
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