Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2022

Every sprint delivers working product.” Not the thinking and learning that go into the deliverables where you end up with something demo-able, if not usable.” They do have product goals. However, they don't deliver value, have team-based planning, a review/demo, or a retrospective. ” “Oooh.”

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Jerry Fletcher

DECEMBER 11, 2021

We talked briefly about what I was doing in my Consulting practice working with elite consultants from Singapore to Madrid to make them more memorable and more profitable. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel. Consulting: [link] Speaking: [link]. We would not have been invited if that were the case.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

For years, we've used several metaphors to describe software product development: People-based metaphors, such as: Man-weeks for all the humans working on a project or a product. Demo inside the organization. In product development, is it anyone's job to make a baby at work? Worse, the less effective we are.

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Jerry Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

I’m a Master of Consultant Marketing. Well, what I do is work with individuals and organizations to develop unique trust-based strategies to build businesses, brands and lives of joy. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel. Consulting: [link] Speaking: [link].

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Jerry Fletcher

MAY 1, 2021

The premise of every assessment I’ve ever seen is that you want to be analyzed so as to know yourself better and thereby: Be able to build on your strengths Overcome your weaknesses by knowing them Build your mental toughness Instill confidence and fit into the team better Be more productive without sacrificing relationships. A caution.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. The better the team learns together, the better the product is. See Product Orientation Requires Technical Excellence ).

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Once the team completes that highest priority feature(s), the team can release the product. When we release, we can regroup and figure out what to do next for this product. Fork another product. (I I did this with several Lite vs Pro products using this approach.). See and demo the product as it grows.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 28, 2018

I mentioned how you could integrate the demo work into an iteration if you create a column for the demo. Here’s a picture of how you might create a kanban with a Demo state, just before the Done column. Here’s how you walk this board: Start at the column just before Done, the Demo column.

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Steve Shu Consulting

APRIL 2, 2010

See a popular post of mine, “ In Consulting The Process Is An Essential Part Of The Deliverable “ Business plan as a sales document - This situation is particularly appropriate for fund raising (e.g., angels, VCs). technology feasibility, commercial feasibility, ramp-up). for government grants).

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The Fearless Marketer

JANUARY 13, 2020

Let’s say you’re a manager who’s looking for somebody to help their team work more productively and creatively. 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? Wouldn’t that be nice!

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

There's a great introduction article, Capitalization of software development costs.). Let's assume everyone works together, on one project (product, if you prefer). 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.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Your customers can't take your product more often than once or twice a year. Because the product doesn't need to leave the building, the teams don't release internally. Nor do the teams demo on a regular basis. What if we thought of all these people as customers: The various people who buy the product. Colleagues?).

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Jerry Fletcher

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Recently, while developing my product called Brandr I realized that most folks don’t understand that Brand has three time components: Now, Later and Long term. Your brand is less about identity and more about the product or service. Consultants need to know how to analyze problems in ways that point toward solutions.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 5, 2021

(That might be the feature set or the product. ). ” Many managers now realize they don't have to see everything to get an idea of where the team is going with the product. However, maybe this is a new product for you and you don't quite know how to do that yet. When will we see half of it? That's good.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Because your context is unique to you, your team, project, product, and culture. And, with any luck, nudges the culture in a good direction for your team, project, and product. Why Do You Want an Agile Culture for Your Product? Notice I said the culture is for this particular product. What do you need?

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 5, 2018

When a team releases more often, the product people can replan the product roadmaps. The product people don’t create MVEs or MVPs —they need the entire feature set. We all use bloated products that make our lives miserable every day. The longer the team goes without a demo, the less replanning anyone can do.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Beau approached us a few months ago to ask about breaking into consulting. He had the epiphany that consulting was his calling in life, and went searching for details – finding MC in the process. We’ve got your resume to go through, and as I gather you have a whole bunch of questions about consulting. Is that right?

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 2024

Tip 1: Start and Maintain a Cross-Functional Team for the Entire Project I still see many supposedly agile “teams,” where the project has a “development team” and a “testing team.” ” Even if the developers and testers are one team, I still see UX or UI teams. The goal to release the product.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

And, that your products and services need short feedback loops that an agile approach will use. Even if you don't need an agile approach, feature teams will help your product development efforts. You can use “how little” thinking to guide your product development. Start with management first.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 29, 2021

Several of my clients have internal struggles about how to internally see the future of the product. The managers think they need it “all” instead of using how little thinking to create a product the customers will love. Some possibilities: Assess the product/project risks to choose a lifecycle. What can you do?

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2021

I asked Brad these questions: Do you have product or feature teams that are cross-functional and can release alone? ( Component teams create interdependencies and take much more time to finish work.). Does each team focus on just one product at a time? Schedule Variance Does Not Make Sense for Software Products.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 25, 2023

By product, where they assign a team to a product for a long period of time. By person, where they take one person from here and one person from there, etc, to create enough people to work on the product. Every time the team delivers, the leaders can reassess the ongoing value of the project or product.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

They are: Understand the various risks: project, product, and organization, and how to manage those risks with feedback loops. And product development has at least these risks: Project-based risks, so we can make effective tradeoffs. And once you release regularly, you can deliver and demo that often.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

In addition, a product leader might approve the feature. Finally, the team, a product leader, or the customer(!) might demo the feature. That defect escaped all your checklists, approvals, and demos. That's because they knew the customers would find problems the development teams had not found.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Back in Part 1 of this series, I explained all the problems I saw with this interview question: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. The Wednesday Agenda 9:30- 10 am (or thereabouts) demo the progress the team made. What should the Scrum Master do?” That day needs an agenda.

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Jerry Fletcher

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Blog and Newslog development to include recording and editing audio and video components and uploading them to Vimeo and YouTube Books, for example one for entrepreneurs on how to use speaking to build a business Speaking professionally requires a great deal of sales activity. Don’t waste production time. Lots of content.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Barry Boehm developed the spiral model. We develop test plans early. In Evolutionary Prototyping, we develop the initial concept—not all the requirements. Once our customers saw demos, they wanted to change things. That means you can replan the project or the product. That feedback would allow us to replan.

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Jerry Fletcher

APRIL 24, 2021

Here are some of the reasons I’m being asked to present this information: Quotes: In a panel on Lead development I said, “ More is not better. Scientists have found 8 management behaviors that use Oxytocin balance to make people more productive. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. Consulting: [link] Speaking: [link].

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Asamby Consulting

APRIL 14, 2022

Typical sales funnel with 5 stages: contact, demo/scoping, proposal, negotiation, sale. Demo/Scoping: The perspective customer participates to a meeting or call to know more about a product or service and to share his/her needs and requirements. a consulting project or a media agency engagement).

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 27, 2017

You may be the most capable consultant to solve help her business. This article lists relevant website and digital marketing statistics for consultants. Learn some key mistakes plaguing consulting businesses and ineffective marketing tactics to avoid. Ar you looking to get more out of your digital marketing strategy?

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ConsultX

MARCH 1, 2022

Our Consultants are meeting with Business Owners around the world every day. History of the Profit Leakage Calculator ConsultX has developed its own Profit Leakage Calculator as a diagnostic tool to discover the areas of a business that are draining the most profit. Business Diagnostic Analysis. Printable report.

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Jerry Fletcher

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Change is the heart of consulting. Keynotes, Breakouts and Trainings for associations and businesses) NEW Products that offer quick and easy branding, positioning and sales development. Example: Consultant Brandr for Linked In which allows you to inject your brand into your Linked In Profile in just one evening.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

So for companies looking to create revolutionary products, identifying and accessing cutting edge, exploratory research is a key competitive advantage. As Bush wrote in 1945: “New products and new processes do not appear full-grown. ” Yet that poses a problem for managers. Xerox had a working version as early as 1973.

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Jerry Fletcher

OCTOBER 30, 2021

You decided to put your consulting career on the front burner. Not long after that I was trying to convince the man who has now been a client for a decade that moving from doing turnarounds as a CEO or COO to Leadership and Management Consulting was significantly different and that he did not have a team in place to handle the shift.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

That “team” consisted of: Three original developers, the old guard. The original architect and developers.) Six “new” developers. When I asked the developers to work together, they told me they wouldn't get their bonuses. Then, senior management offered kudos when we showed a demo.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Maybe you want to use this project as a way to integrate a team into a new product or a new domain. Or, you might only need informal demos to show people where you are. Anything else about the current product that affects your solution. You might show other people internal demos. You'd like to experiment.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The closer to the left your products are, the more your managers might be open to changing their behaviors and the culture. But the demand for software developers was high and I was good. The small-c culture in my team (we would call it a product team now) helped me learn a ton. And we finished the product.

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