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Unemployed Agilists: How to Move from a Staff Role to a Line Job, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

Your previous managers and potential managers don’t see the value of someone in your position. That’s because these managers think agile coaching and Scrum Mastering is a staff job, not a line job. Cutting overhead is definitely not personal—it’s all about how managers perceive an employee’s value.

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Two Ways (& One Caution) to Use an Iteration Contents Chart to See Project Progress

Johanna Rothman

When I wrote Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management , I included this chart, the Iterations Content Chart as part of a possible dashboard. That's when the project manager stepped in and said, “No more changes. See the flow metrics newsletter.) Things got worse. I used to think so, too.

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3 Ways Management Consulting Applications Differ from Traditional Ones

Management Consulted

If you’ve been around the management consulting industry for any amount of time at all, you know how different of a beast it really is to conquer than nearly any other industry. Buckle up and get ready to learn the 3 ways management consulting applications differ from traditional ones. Actually, your resume is all-powerful.

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Consultants and Candidates: No Free Work. Ask for Reasonable Compensation

Johanna Rothman

As part of their filtering process, potential clients/hiring managers want to see how you work. While managers think they will get useful results, too often, they don't. And because the hiring manager is only thinking of their time, they don't consider offering you any compensation for your time. That's fine.

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The Perils of Internal Disruption (Part 5)

Markovitz Consulting

If something is “disruptive,” then it must by definition be good. A final cause of self-inflicted disruption is management’s overreaction to noise in the data it measures. Too often, leaders react to every up and down in the metrics, asking for explanations and root causes that don’t actually exist.

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The goal trap for small businesses

Asamby Consulting

The goal trap for small businesses Small businesses realize as they grow that they need goals and goal setting to manage their company but often fail to adopt them. Goal setting refers to how these goals are defined, tracked and managed. These goals can be tracked through metrics that gives continuous feedback such as OKR, MBO, etc.

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Project resistance

Seth Godin Blog

Some of the symptoms of Resistance seem contradictory, but if we go back to the definition, that makes sense. It happens everywhere we look.

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