Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? For nearly two decades, many companies have utilized the principles within the Agile Manifesto to deliver faster time-to-market than traditional, or linear development models. Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

Forecasting and decision-making Thanks to predictive analytics, PM tools analyze historical data along with current project metrics to predict how the project environment will change. Let’s now review the most common applications of the technology in more detail. Here are some of the most essential ones.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

Especially if you want to use agile approaches. See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter.) Learning technical skills with a team is relatively easy, if people can know how to get along. Mark Kilby and I developed a self-study Remote Interviewing workshop you might like.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( See Agile Program Measurements to Visualize and Track Progress and Measure Cycle Time for my suggestions of what to measure.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

By establishing a clear understanding of expectations and success metrics, your organization can ensure that everyone is working towards a common goal and contributing to the overall success of the organization. How to track your Goals and objectives: Tracking goals and objectives can be a daunting task for many senior leaders.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Here's my speaking bio, in specific lines, so you can see how I use that template: Johanna, known as the Pragmatic Manager, offers frank advice for your product development challenges. She works with individuals, teams, and leaders across the organization to resolve risks and see alternatives for their product development.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency, where we focus on watching the work, not the people. But teams can change how they work—in any approach. But here's how they can work to create more agility.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( See Agile Program Measurements to Visualize and Track Progress and Measure Cycle Time for my suggestions of what to measure.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. Can you create an agile culture for your team even if you can't change how the organization works?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

This is one of the reasons Mark and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Your team might not need an agile approach. This includes the team's board and the team's metrics. We didn't specifically talk about how to collaborate when writing stories, code, or tests. The place to gather team data.

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LSA Global

MAY 25, 2022

This technology and consumer packaged goods company client wanted to create senior HR Team alignment in the areas of attracting, developing, engaging, and retaining the top talent to required enable the company’s growth targets. People Team goals , roles, success metrics, and interdependencies were unclear and misaligned.

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LSA Global

JUNE 9, 2023

Unfortunately, Leadership Succession Planning Often Fails to Meet Expectations While most leaders know that they should develop a leadership pipeline, leadership succession planning often fails to make a measurable impact. Then establish the necessary goals, roles, success metrics, and processes to set them up for success.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2020

Are you and your sales team agile enough? You will find out just how quickly you can pivot your sales strategy and your sales team when a crisis occurs. To learn more about how to pivot your sales strategy, download 7 Ways to Stress Test Your Sales Strategy. Is It Time to Pivot Your Sales Strategy?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We want more collaboration and smaller stories in any agile approach. Here's how to measure cycle time: I like to use a value stream map to see the wait times and work times. Stephanie and Dan pair on the development. And, for thinking about how to collaborate as in pairing, swarming, or mobbing.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Otherwise, you're playing an agile schedule game : Double Your Velocity, Everyone Start Your Own Story, or We Can Do More. Pawel Brodzinski developed that scale.) They offer value to someone. If you want to increase the number of story points in an iteration, I hope you also increase the number of stories in the iteration.

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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 28, 2017

Read more from Korn Ferry: How to Develop Leaders Who Can Drive Strategic Change. So how can organizations seize the opportunities of the digital economy? And how can they embed the ability to change and thrive in the digital world into their DNA in order to ensure their digital sustainability? Discipline and Focus.

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1 to 1

APRIL 21, 2022

It’s up to businesses to figure out how to best meet those expectations. We’ll review those key differences, how to select the right approach, and best practices for delivering customer support that results in happy customers. This typically means choosing between omnichannel versus multichannel support.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Organizational Development Book. Take Tom, a website developer whom I met on a consulting assignment at an accounting firm. “He was more concerned with protocol than personal development. It’s not often possible to ignore performance metrics or overcome policies and bureaucratic red-tape. We feel more alive.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

That's because they knew the customers would find problems the development teams had not found. But the development teams? They could find the details in their defect tracking system, but they had no idea of the magnitude of the problem, where the problems lay, or how long they took to fix anything. But what should they measure?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 20, 2018

Given the stock market was buying “the story and vision” of anything internet, inflated expectations were more important than traditional metrics like customers, growth, revenue, or, heaven forbid, profits. Startups now had tools that sped up the search for customers, reduced time to market, and slashed the cost of development.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Customers today are not just consumers; they are also creators, developing content and ideas — and encountering challenges — right along with you. Members are guided on how to register for an online member portal, which provides access to email your doctor, refill prescriptions, make appointments, and more. The results?

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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. How to improve CSAT. How to improve CES. What is a CSAT rating?

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

The corollary, of course, is “we don’t know how to do that.” By tracking a metric, they can sell optimized wait times (elevators as a service) rather than banks of elevators based on price. But sustainable growth relies on developing a culture of constant innovation in everything the company does.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

” Don’t assume everyone instinctively knows how to be civil; many people never learned the basic skills. Microsoft’s popular Precision Questioning class teaches participants to question their own ideas, develop approaches to healthy, constructive criticism, and act with emotional agility even in tense situations.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs must be agile and adaptive, operating from a mindset of continual anticipation and appraisal in order to make timely investment decisions and oversee speedy execution. How skillfully, and quickly, CEOs address these five tensions will go a long way toward determining success.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. Defining and tracking success metrics. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Core Competencies.

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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. Arcturus has the advantage of being agile and, acting in a focused way, can innovate quickly.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

But the most powerful drivers of change are not necessarily technological; radical improvements increasingly also come from applying new innovation methodologies like design thinking that focus on developing a deep understanding of patient experiences and invite patients and partners into co-creation processes. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

As the half-life of specific skills diminishes , and machines become proficient at tasks including even decision-making, then fundamentally human capabilities become more important: empathy, curiosity, creativity, imagination, emotional and social intelligence, leadership, and the development of other people.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

How to Handle a Colleague Who’s a Jerk When the Boss Isn’t Around. The teams exposed to rudeness displayed lower capabilities in all diagnostic and procedural performance metrics, markedly diminishing the infant’s chances of survival. You and Your Team Series. Collaboration. Amy Jen Su.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Our aim was to develop simple, clear, robust, and practical guidance. Build a lean and powerful governance structure to reinforce accountability, ownership, and a bias toward action, based on agreed-upon metrics and milestones. 9: Develop robust plans, but allow for missteps — fail fast to learn fast.

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