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Unemployed Agilists: How to Increase Your Value to Get a Great Job, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

I assume you have some sort of functional product development expertise. If not, why are you in technical product development? If your team has a customer, you're doing some form of product development. The frequency of the team's demos, who conducted them and how, and the audience for those demos.

Agile 82
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How and When to Use Timeboxes, Iterations, and Sprints to be Most Effective

Johanna Rothman

Not the thinking and learning that go into the deliverables where you end up with something demo-able, if not usable.” However, they don't deliver value, have team-based planning, a review/demo, or a retrospective. We used internal demos because the cost to release was so high. Software product development is learning.

Agile 117
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How WIP Insights Allow Us to Revisit Brooks’ Law About Adding People to a Team

Johanna Rothman

That's why many people were interested in the ratio of developers to testers back then. This team started off with a serial lifecycle, so they didn't even plan to have a demo until about September or so. That's when they thought the project would be done, and most of the development staff could leave to start the next project.

Agile 95
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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. As part of the product development, they spin off security and performance teams. However, their tools approach differs from their product development approaches.

Agile 105
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Visualize Work to Reduce Agile Meetings

Johanna Rothman

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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Retire These Metaphors & Reframe the Discussion to be More Effective

Johanna Rothman

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? Product development has nothing to do with birth.

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. Here are some examples: Demos, even of partially working product. It might not be a customer-worthy demo, but it's a demo of a sort.). You might think that dispersed/remote work is all individual. I expect to see some kind of running code.