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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 6, Create Your Agile Approach

Johanna Rothman

I discussed the origins of the agile approaches in Part 5. In this post, I'll discuss how you can create an agile approach that fits your context. Why should you create your own agile approach? You deserve an agile approach that helps you achieve the business outcomes you need. What do you need? Start with the Team.

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When Writing Has Two Focuses: Invite Ideal Readers to Change and Assure Secondary Readers

Johanna Rothman

Her ideal readers are the teams doing the work, so they can change their demos and reporting frequency. Now that we are close, Sales, Training, Marketing all need much more detail and information about how to use Nova and when they can expect it. As a company, we need more demos and more data. Was Polly a little snarky?

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Agile Milestone Criteria for Projects and Programs

Johanna Rothman

You can see demos. You need enough insight or prediction to start the marketing campaign or to create training videos or product documentation. Agile and Lean Program Management , and in Create Your Successful Agile Project. Use Milestone Criteria in an Agile Way for an Agile Program. That's not the problem.

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Epicflow Implementation Guide: Essential Steps and Best Practices

Epicflow

After that, they are given access to a simple demo environment with a standard set of configurations, where they can test how our system works. If your company uses other project management tools like Jira, MS Project, or Oracle Primavera, the demo environment will be adjusted accordingly. User training and adoption.

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Leadership tip #9: See & Stop Micromanagement—Learn to Trust Instead

Johanna Rothman

I see too much micromanagement, even in supposedly agile organizations. As an example, when managers don't bother to learn agile measures and what they mean and instead want a Gantt chart, “because how long could it take?” ” Or, when a manager imposes a “standard” agile approach.

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Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 6, Managers Want Commitments

Johanna Rothman

If you work at a place new to agile approaches, work on streamlining the releases so you always release once a month. (I Agile approaches create empirical measurements: what we have actually completed, not predictive measurements, what we want to have completed. Release finished features often. Then move to releasing every two weeks.

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

In Part 1 , I suggested that when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. The senior manager has P&L (Profit and Loss) responsibility for the entire product line, including Product Management (for this product line), Customer Support, Training, etc. I was a Director.