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How to Create Partnerships Instead of Using Stakeholders

Johanna Rothman

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. ” For years, I explained that the more often the team or program could demo, the more the project or program could engage its stakeholders. Demo that value on a regular cadence. Now, John Cutler has changed my mind.

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Consulting Software that will help you to acquire Clients and Improve Businesses

ConsultX

When we say ConsultX is a world leading online Business Consulting Software, we mean it. Business Consultants, Coaches and Advisors around the world have been using our Business Consulting Software to acquire clients and help grow their clients’ business for over 17 years. ask Create Compelling Consulting Proposals.

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Consultant Marketing Digital World Speaking

Jerry Fletcher

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]. Here’s the self-introduction I resorted to : I’m Jerry Fletcher.

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Consultant Marketing Assessments

Jerry Fletcher

Excels when kept focused on the big picture strategy and the creative process through to the end result. 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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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. See How to Plan for Change: Clear Strategy, Small Deliverables, Rolling Wave with Options.) What if you have no visual progress yet ?

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Shorter Plans Results in More Management Ease and Better Results

Johanna Rothman

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. They plan and replan—and ask the teams to plan and replan.

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

Johanna Rothman

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. That strategy worked in many more projects from the late 80s through the mid-2000s.

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