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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 wrote this in Manage It! )

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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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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. So that the senior manager can decide on the mix of products and services as a product line. How Many Managers Do You Need? What do you do?

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More Meetings = More Clients

The Fearless Marketer

Let’s say you’re a manager who’s looking for somebody to help their team work more productively and creatively. Well, the business manager, asks others in their company, “Hey, do you know somebody good who does productivity and creativity consulting for teams?”. The purpose of B2B marketing is to get meetings with prospective clients.

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

Johanna Rothman

I suspected I would learn about engagement with my next questions about management patterns. Management Patterns That Might Cause a Team to Miss “Deadlines” I find two general buckets of problems for missing deadlines: how management organizes teams and the “need” for certain measures.

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4 Factors That Predict Startup Success, and One That Doesn’t

Harvard Business

The challenge is convincing all those talented individuals seeking finance and consulting positions to take the leap into starting a new venture. Employees there learn hard skills, such as project management, but also softer skills, such as politics and networking. Experience at top tech companies predicts success as a founder.