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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. However, hiring managers expect deep agile expertise that connect to the Pirate metrics. But that's a different post.)

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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. See the Flow Efficiency series.) As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( Here are some examples: Demos, even of partially working product. Results of performance experiments.

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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. See the Flow Efficiency series.) As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( Here are some examples: Demos, even of partially working product. Results of performance experiments.

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Effective Agility: Three Suggestions to Change How You and Your Team Work, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency, where we focus on watching the work, not the people. ” Even if the developers and testers are one team, I still see UX or UI teams. The more frequently you can demo, the better.

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Effective Agility: Three Ways to Change Your Team’s Project Culture, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. Where the organization rewards resource efficiency, not flow efficiency.) All roads lead to Flow Metrics.)

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