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When Writing Has Two Focuses: Invite Ideal Readers to Change and Assure Secondary Readers

Johanna Rothman

Her ideal readers are the teams doing the work, so they can change their demos and reporting frequency. Now that we are close, Sales, Training, Marketing all need much more detail and information about how to use Nova and when they can expect it. As a company, we need more demos and more data. Was Polly a little snarky?

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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. User training and adoption.

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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 7, Lifecycle Summary

Johanna Rothman

Project lifecycles and cultures manage all those risks. And, you can decide if you want to try to change the culture. Or, you might only need informal demos to show people where you are. You might show other people internal demos. You don't have to change your culture to use any lifecycle. You'd like to experiment.

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

Johanna Rothman

You and your managers might have trained people not to take chances, not to experiment. The more you do that, the more you train the people you lead and serve not to learn and experiment. Ask for a regular cadence of demos, too. The more often you see a demo, the more often you can see the team succeed.

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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 6, Create Your Agile Approach

Johanna Rothman

Because your context is unique to you, your team, project, product, and culture. And, with any luck, nudges the culture in a good direction for your team, project, and product. Why Do You Want an Agile Culture for Your Product? Notice I said the culture is for this particular product. What do you need?

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

The senior manager has P&L (Profit and Loss) responsibility for the entire product line, including Product Management (for this product line), Customer Support, Training, etc. 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.

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How to Build a Better Sales Playbook

LSA Global

And because every sales team has a unique sales strategy, culture, solution, and definition of winning, the best sales playbooks are unique to each organization and target buyer persona. Sales Culture. Do not underestimate the need for the right sales culture to meet your targets. Sales Talent.

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