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Leadership tip #9: See & Stop Micromanagement—Learn to Trust Instead

Johanna Rothman

Ask for a regular cadence of demos, too. The more often you see a demo, the more often you can see the team succeed. If senior leadership delegates the project portfolio decisions to middle management, then the middle managers decide. This is a part of the series of leadership tips. You don't have to micromanage.

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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. Organizational culture.

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Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

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. Aside from the problems that the teams don't finish everything each quarter, the senior leadership likes the regular cadence of planning and seeing accomplishments.

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How Interview Questions Reveal the True Organizational Assumptions & Culture, Part 5

Johanna Rothman

Instead, I see assumptions that reveal a divide-and-conquer, and possibly a command-and-control culture, not an agile culture. See How to Start Thinking in Flow Efficiency for Better Teamwork & Throughput and What Does Your Culture Value: People “Efficiency” or Work Throughput? When was the most recent demo?

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

Not only does each team have all the skills and capabilities it needs, but the product line has all the skills and capabilities it needs to manage the culture. I am using the word serve as in servant leadership. We integrated customer support into our demos, so they understood what their challenges would be when we released.

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Agile Project Manager, Scrum Master, or Product Owner?

Johanna Rothman

They more often use flow with various cadences of planning, demos, and retrospectives. That's now, where I rarely see an agile culture. Maybe if I saw an agile culture we wouldn't need that separation.). She is a servant leader for the team. If the team uses Scrum, she might be a Scrum Master.

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Large Features and Long Deadlines Mean You Have a Gantt Chart, Not a Roadmap

Johanna Rothman

Demo on a regular cadence. An agile approach will work better, but an agile approach is a cultural change, which you might not need.). Which means you can demo at will. Demo Early and Often. In addition, create a cadence for demos, such as Wednesday morning at noon or just before. Record the demo.

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