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

Johanna Rothman

That's because a finance person drew the lifecycle.). 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. I said, “You can't use ‘sprints.'

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Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation

Johanna Rothman

I am not a finance person. If you need to capitalize, talk to your finance people. There's a great introduction article, Capitalization of software development costs.). So, let's assume the team spends a total of 4 hours planning, retrospecting, demoing, all that non-creation time out of the 40 hours the team works. (I

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How One Startup Developed a Sales Model That Works in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business

At this point we’d experimented enough to know there were a few critical factors to activate a meaningful flow of sales: a highly specialized local sales team who could demo the stove, and a targeted network of potential customers that our sales team could engage at peak interest. I am the cofounder and CEO of BioLite.

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

Note that Marketing, Finance, HR, are all part of this product line. There might be a “centralized” function for these groups, but all the people developing and supporting this product are in the product line. Except, the new development was delayed. They did not have one goal as a product development organization.

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More Meetings = More Clients

The Fearless Marketer

And after I’d developed a big email list, I promoted my individual and group coaching programs and invited those who were interested in knowing more to have a conversation with me. Then I did a lot of speaking to professional groups and collected business cards at the end of the talks. Those conversations turned into new clients.

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With Agile Approaches, No Need to “Meet” or “Enforce” Deadlines

Johanna Rothman

In addition, each component team worked on any number of products, both development and support, for any given iteration. However, software product development is not construction. Software product development requires feedback loops and learning. Over months, they stopped demoing anything. And remotely!)

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What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like

Harvard Business

When organizations lack a formal innovation pipeline process, project approvals tend to be based on who has the best demo or slides, or who lobbies the hardest. The framework has the team talking not just to potential customers but also with regulators, and people responsible for legal, policy, finance, support.