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How to Create Better Products With Much Less of a Backlog

Johanna Rothman

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for why this happens.) I discussed this a little in Aging Fun with Drunk Agile (Video) and in How to Assess the Value of Old Data and Its Effect on Aging.) That's why aging is a part of the flow metrics feedback loop on the top of this post.

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

Substitute video for MBWAL. 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. ( I have more ideas and a more in-depth discussion in Create Your Successful Agile Project.).

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business

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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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

Substitute video for MBWAL. 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. ( I have more ideas and a more in-depth discussion in Create Your Successful Agile Project.).

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NewTV Is the Antithesis of a Lean Startup. Can It Work?

Harvard Business

NewTV, a new company focused on short-form video, just raised $1 billion dollars. Given Verizon just shut down Go90 , its short-form content video service, it will be interesting to see if Verizon distributes Katzenberg’s offerings.). CSA Images/Colin McPherson/Getty Images. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

Customers today are not just consumers; they are also creators, developing content and ideas — and encountering challenges — right along with you. The metrics also changed. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. The results?

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WhatsApp Grew to One Billion Users by Focusing on Product, Not Technology

Harvard Business

” The product is hardly revolutionary in terms of its technology, but it is easy to use and allows people to do what they want — chat securely (individually or in groups), share pictures and videos, make internet calls — all without fearing that someone is watching over their shoulder or playing with their data.