Jerry Fletcher

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Don’t waste production time. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. His consulting practice, founded in 1990, is known for on and off-line Trust-based Consultant Marketing advice that builds businesses, brands and lives of joy. Consulting: [link] Speaking: [link]. Lots of content. Podcasts can be listened to at 2x.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2020

In Costs of an Agile Approach for Hardware Products , I suggested that an iteration-based approach for hardware was too expensive. Most of the hardware teams I've worked with (inside an organization and as a consultant) have fewer people. Those people work independently until they need to verify the product as a whole, works.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

In innovative products, the interdependencies can change any day. If your product does not need much innovation, you can plan for longer and know you will meet that plan. Those are the kinds of products that do not require much, if any, innovation. In addition, I ask teams to show visual progress , such as in a demo.

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Jerry Fletcher

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

I had attended a conference on gamifying products in the fall before Covid struck. Somehow we got on the subject of getting through to officials in companies in order to sell our products in the corporate market. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. Consulting: [link] Speaking: [link]. A Mastermind. Getting Through.

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Jerry Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

I sent a one sheet on my Trust speech and a link to my speaking demo not expecting a response since I was mor interested in their events in major cities across the USA. In part it was because he never stopped tinkering with the product going through at least 5 programmers I was aware of. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 10, 2024

When I work with these teams or their managers, I realize they're not demoing or retrospecting on a regular basis. Worse, these people and teams don't feel any satisfaction with their products. And don't get me started on how coaches tend to do life coaching instead of support for agility.) ” There are many better ways.

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Jerry Fletcher

MARCH 13, 2021

Your team includes all the folks that get credit when the job is done, the objective reached, or the product is delivered. Trust lowers your stress and makes you more productive. That is true whether the business is a product, a service or a combination of the two. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. Your Company.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I like to ask them to choose a challenging production support problem, or something else that's making them nuts. Show a demo of whatever you complete at the 15-minute mark. The timing: I use a 15-minute timebox, followed by not more than 5 minutes of a demo. Ask the team to choose one of their current team-based problems.

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Jerry Fletcher

OCTOBER 2, 2021

If you intend to sell beyond your local area and provide services or products you need to have a presence on line. Unlimited products. You can sell as many products as you can invent or purchase whether the product is real world or digital. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel. Consulting: [link] Speaking: [link].

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In this part, I’ll discuss an option for a product-oriented organization. Consider a Product-Oriented Organization. Instead of organizing by function, consider a product-oriented organization. Again, I am not saying this is the only way a product organization would look, but this is a possibility. What do you do?

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2021

If you are a consultant it is a pretty good bet that you have a profile on Linked In. A photo in the background that shows product(s) you are associated with. Your title Since most consultants are independent professionals operating as solos (nearly 70% in our last survey) you can call yourself anything you like.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

High Need for Product Innovation and Change. The more need for product innovation and change, the shorter the feedback loops need to be. When the product requires much innovation and change, management doesn't need estimates. When management sees the product direction, they can say, “Stop with this and continue with that.”

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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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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. And so it goes.

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Women in Consulting

JANUARY 11, 2018

:: Recently I had the opportunity to make a presentation to a small group of consultants; a couple of them worked for Chevron-Texaco. They had just completed a screening process for a multi-million consulting project. 2) Second set of consultants eliminated were CONTENT or FACT CENTERED …they knew everything about everything.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The first is that Brooks strongly suggested the idea of a “surgical team” That hierarchical team was a feature- or product-based team. Ten people, seven of them professionals, are at work on the problem, but the system is the product of one mind–or at most two, acting uno animo.”

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Jerry Fletcher

APRIL 17, 2021

If a celebrity is enthusiastic about your product and endorses it, you could have a winner. If a fan becomes a social media star and brags on your product, you just might have a winner. Amazon changed the pace of delivery across a plethora of product lines. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. You could have a winner.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 11, 2019

We had (and still have) too many products to keep the same teams on them for a long time. For programs, the team stayed together and moved to a different feature set/internal product until the program finished. We could move to a new product and/or a new team. My job was to smooth the way for people to deliver products.

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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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Jerry Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

I’m a Master of Consultant Marketing. I’ve been doing it since1990 and stopped counting successful new product introductions at 207 and individual branding for consultants at 147 at last count. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel. Consulting: [link] Speaking: [link].

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2021

Example 1: Startup/Small Organization with Few Products. They offer their product in two versions: Pro and Lite. The first was not waiting for the end of an iteration to demo or release. They demo'd every week on Wednesday mornings and then they released after the demo. Let's start with a couple of examples. Others mob.

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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.

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Jerry Fletcher

APRIL 10, 2021

Mold a product or service marked by a singular approach that is memorable. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. His consulting practice, founded in 1990, is known for on and off-line Trust-based Consultant Marketing advice that builds businesses, brands and lives of joy. Consulting: [link] Speaking: [link].

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But there are several problems with all this planning: These plans require prediction at all levels, from strategy to product to what the team delivers. However, too often, the managers prevent product innovations or strategy changes because they planned so much. That's the product. They plan to be able to predict the future.

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Jerry Fletcher

APRIL 24, 2021

Scientists have found 8 management behaviors that use Oxytocin balance to make people more productive. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. His consulting practice, founded in 1990, is known for on and off-line Trust-based Consultant Marketing advice that builds businesses, brands and lives of joy.

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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

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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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? Yes, those people might also plan together.

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ConsultX

MARCH 1, 2022

Our Consultants are meeting with Business Owners around the world every day. The early versions of our proprietary calculator were built using an excel spreadsheet and used by more than 150 Consultants in Europe, The UK, and Australasia. Profit that is available to you now, from money that is already circulating in your Business.

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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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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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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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Tsavo Neal

JULY 3, 2020

Every week, I write about web design, copywriting, and digital marketing for independent consultants and small firms. Friday Fusion is a collection of said writing from Quora, LinkedIn, and email conversations with consultants. Do you sell services to other businesses, like consulting services? SEO is a long-term game.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2021

” When we have insufficient trust, morale and the products deteriorate. Instead, we can extend trust and keep innovating for morale and the products. Two of them are the product backlog burnup and the feature chart in Velocity is Not Acceleration. Ask for a regular cadence of demos, too.

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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

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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