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Unemployed Agilists: How to Increase Your Value to Get a Great Job, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

However, hiring managers expect deep agile expertise that connect to the Pirate metrics. Here are some ideas that might relate your agile experience and expertise to value: How you've used the flow metrics while supporting a project and/or the managers. That idea of inspect and adapt based on learning.) That add little to no value.

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Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1

Johanna Rothman

When I work with these teams or their managers, I realize they're not demoing or retrospecting on a regular basis. And all those ways require we change the culture from that of resource-efficiency thinking to flow-efficiency thinking. I can't get anything done. That's not all. That creates distrust and an anti-agile culture. .”

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

Johanna Rothman

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. Too often, that means people work in resource efficiency, not in flow efficiency. What if you have no visual progress yet ?

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

See the Flow Efficiency series.) As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( Here are some examples: Demos, even of partially working product. It might not be a customer-worthy demo, but it's a demo of a sort.). I expect to see some kind of running code.

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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. Every aspect of your project, from project profitability to individual performance metrics is enabled by Microsoft’s Power BI. The post What is Project Accounting?

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Effective Agility: Three Suggestions to Change How You and Your Team Work, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

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. See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for more information. The more frequently you can demo, the better.

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Effective Agility: Three Ways to Change Your Team’s Project Culture, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

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. Where the organization rewards resource efficiency, not flow efficiency.) All roads lead to Flow Metrics.)

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