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How and When to Use Timeboxes, Iterations, and Sprints to be Most Effective

Johanna Rothman

That's because a finance person drew the lifecycle.). Not the thinking and learning that go into the deliverables where you end up with something demo-able, if not usable.” However, they don't deliver value, have team-based planning, a review/demo, or a retrospective. I said, “You can't use ‘sprints.'

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Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation

Johanna Rothman

I am not a finance person. If you need to capitalize, talk to your finance people. There's a great introduction article, Capitalization of software development costs.). So, let's assume the team spends a total of 4 hours planning, retrospecting, demoing, all that non-creation time out of the 40 hours the team works. (I

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More Meetings = More Clients

The Fearless Marketer

Do they look up productivity consultants on Google, find a web product page about “Productivity and Creative Services for Businesses” and then click on the buy button? Well, the business manager, asks others in their company, “Hey, do you know somebody good who does productivity and creativity consulting for teams?”.

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

Note that Marketing, Finance, HR, are all part of this product line. There might be a “centralized” function for these groups, but all the people developing and supporting this product are in the product line. Except, the new development was delayed. They did not have one goal as a product development organization.

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With Agile Approaches, No Need to “Meet” or “Enforce” Deadlines

Johanna Rothman

In addition, each component team worked on any number of products, both development and support, for any given iteration. However, software product development is not construction. Software product development requires feedback loops and learning. Over months, they stopped demoing anything. And remotely!)

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4 Factors That Predict Startup Success, and One That Doesn’t

Harvard Business

The challenge is convincing all those talented individuals seeking finance and consulting positions to take the leap into starting a new venture. First Round has been alerted to high-potential investments from a wide variety of sources, including Twitter and in-person pitch gatherings such as ”Demo Days.”