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How to Create Partnerships Instead of Using Stakeholders

Johanna Rothman

” For years, I explained that the more often the team or program could demo, the more the project or program could engage its stakeholders. See Customers, Internal Delivery, And Trust for a recent post about demos and trust.) The more frequently you can demo, the more your partners can trust you to deliver something.

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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. Data adjustment and integration.

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What’s Wrong With Detailed Gantt Charts and How to Make Fewer Details Work for You

Johanna Rothman

If your product does not need much innovation, you can plan for longer and know you will meet that plan. In addition, I ask teams to show visual progress , such as in a demo. I want architecture feedback loops as early as possible in the project, which is why I want visual progress with demos. Yes, even with padding.

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How WIP Insights Allow Us to Revisit Brooks’ Law About Adding People to a Team

Johanna Rothman

35 (in the anniversary edition): “The team just defined meets the desiderata in several ways. This team started off with a serial lifecycle, so they didn't even plan to have a demo until about September or so. I chose to add more testers and writers and increase the team's collaboration so we could see a monthly demo.

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What is Project Accounting?

Progressus

For project-centric companies such as consulting firms, architect and engineering firms or software publishers, the term project accounting takes on a whole new meaning. During the project kick-off meeting, the project plan and the project budget are reviewed. Resources are allocated to the project based on the budget.

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 5: Summary

Johanna Rothman

Business resilience means everyone works in flow efficiency , not resource efficiency. Notice I didn't talk about meetings, planning, any of the rituals, except for the retrospective. Hint: If you keep the team's WIP (Work in Progress) to 1, yes one feature, you don't need a lot of meetings. That would be resilient.

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Inside the Minds of Your Prospects: 37 Critical Digital Marketing Statistics for Consultants

Tsavo Neal

Would you go and meet a prospective client wearing basketball shorts and sandles? You may be the most capable consultant to solve help her business. This article lists relevant website and digital marketing statistics for consultants. But, we are hard-wired to make snap judgements based on these seemingly superficial traits.

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