Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

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. The first time a manager asked me how many man-weeks my work would take, I said, “Zero. Demo inside the organization.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 28, 2018

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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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2020

I focused on the actual development costs. And, because they can demo each feature, they might need to reconnect every day if the story/feature takes longer than one day. If a hardware team uses the feedback loops, they can manage their various costs before they go to physical form. What Does a Hardware Team Look Like?

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Firms typically provide consulting clubs with casebooks, containing demo or previous client cases, that students can use to practice for case interviews. Thanduxolo Love Mtsweni is a Management Consultant Analyst at Accenture in South Africa. Don’t make the mistake of focusing solely on academics.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In the olden days, the project manager with the help of the team ranked.) See and demo the product as it grows. Manage the project portfolio more easily because the project releases value more often. You can't just have developers, then testers, etc. Staged Delivery assumes we will release. This addresses schedule risk.).

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

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 I always used incremental life cycles to manage risks. 4 hours is 10% of 40 hours.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

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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Steve Shu Consulting

APRIL 2, 2010

Often need a mix of instruments here (Powerpoint & Word docs, napkin drawings, demo), depending on the team, industry, and phase of product development (e.g., Business Development General Management Intrapreneurship Management Consulting Sales And Marketing Ventures & Entrepreneurship Business Plan Entrepreneurship Strategy'

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ConsultX

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Our online consulting software walks you through developing a comprehensive Business Plan with the business owner using the Business Plan Builder tool. Manage plan implementation and improvement. The world’s best business management reporting. And we’ve been working on building the best Business Consulting software since 2005.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 5, 2021

Many managers want to know the answers to these questions: When will we see the first bit? ” Many managers now realize they don't have to see everything to get an idea of where the team is going with the product. Your team manages its WIP. Regardless of how your team works, you can demo something inside of a week or two.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 21, 2022

What issues will they bring to automotive project management, and what are the ways to address them? Its current development is primarily driven by 4 major trends: connectivity, autonomous vehicles, shared mobility, and electrification. The need to shorten the time for product development. Challenges in Automotive Projects.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Nor do the teams demo on a regular basis. The developers and testers and anyone else on the product or feature teams. However, they saw these results: The product management people now see the requirements as they exist. One team overheard a product manager say, “Your late changes broke our build. Colleagues?).

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The Fearless Marketer

JANUARY 13, 2020

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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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 2024

Tip 1: Start and Maintain a Cross-Functional Team for the Entire Project I still see many supposedly agile “teams,” where the project has a “development team” and a “testing team.” ” Even if the developers and testers are one team, I still see UX or UI teams. That's fine.

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1 to 1

JANUARY 25, 2024

It dominated panel discussions, powered nearly every product demo on the trade show floor, and featured in economic forecasting discussions. s vice president of customer-facing applications development. The topic of AI was everywhere. Despite some headwinds, consumer spending remains strong, which is good news for retailers.

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Jerry Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

My expectation from the run-up back and forth with various staff members was that this would be a well-managed professional event. Well, what I do is work with individuals and organizations to develop unique trust-based strategies to build businesses, brands and lives of joy. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel. She was delightful.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

Part 2 was why we need managers in an agile transformation. Start with management first. How can the managers use agility in their work? Management Teams and Agility: Flow & Resilience. When I think about management agility, I often think of managers working in flow, especially for decision.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

What do your team and your product need for agility and to manage product risks? ” That allows you to manage the project portfolio more easily. I am sure that team needs developers and testers. The kind of developers, testers, business analysts, etc—all that depends on your product. Review your queued work.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 5, 2018

The longer the team goes without a demo, the less replanning anyone can do. The post Frequent Releasing Can Lead to Short and Frequent Planning appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. The team doesn’t receive feedback on their work until they finally release, at the end of the timebox.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 29, 2021

The managers want rigid roadmaps. Because the managers want to “know” the teams will deliver it all. However, the managers create a roadmap similar to the image above. The managers created a Gantt Chart as a picture, not a roadmap. The managers created a Gantt Chart as a picture, not a roadmap.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Police took off their helmets in sympathy at the latest mass demo in Turin. This has been key factor in its further development. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Mr Napolitano is alarmed, and so he should be.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2021

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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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

One of Rochet’s first tasks was to create a leadership development program that equipped executives with the knowledge, mindset, and ways of working the company would need to grow in the digital age. “A clear, easy-to-memorize digital group strategy is now vocally championed by leadership across the company,” Rochet says.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 25, 2023

I also said I don't blame the managers for wanting to know. But instead of placating the managers and trying to estimate, consider starting with this question: How do you plan to use this information? Now, we get to the meat, where the manager needs to know to feel good about the development. I needed to demo more often.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

They are: Understand the various risks: project, product, and organization, and how to manage those risks with feedback loops. Let's start with risks and how feedback loops manage those risks. And product development has at least these risks: Project-based risks, so we can make effective tradeoffs. (See Every effort has risks.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

might demo the feature. That defect escaped all your checklists, approvals, and demos. That's because they knew the customers would find problems the development teams had not found. But the development teams? That's because the development teams worked by phase, not by feature. It's the same when I pair.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Barry Boehm developed the spiral model. We develop test plans early. The spiral model assumes that if you get feedback early enough, you've managed the technical and requirements risks. The spiral model assumes that if you get feedback early enough, you've managed the technical and requirements risks. The Spiral Model.

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This is why one of the essential rules of the Epicflow approach to resource management is “Make sure not a single resource is overloaded”. Epicflow team has developed three essential features that will help you analyze the workload of your resources, predict and avoid bottlenecks: Load Analysis, Inactive Analysis, and Bottleneck Analysis.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I was using that time to transition into a project management role in media. I got a part-time job in a retail store, and in my downtime I just started a learning a lot of the tools necessary in order to be a producer/project manager in media. I eventually built up a little demo reel, and I started presenting that to other companies.

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Asamby Consulting

APRIL 14, 2022

We also use it internally at Asamby for most of our tasks like: CRM, hours logging, payment tracking, task management, dashboard,) Please note that we recommend AirTable for many day-to-day processes and activities except those related to critical data like accounting, invoices, etc.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

Employees there learn hard skills, such as project management, but also softer skills, such as politics and networking. First Round has been alerted to high-potential investments from a wide variety of sources, including Twitter and in-person pitch gatherings such as ”Demo Days.”

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

They (the team) feel that the tasks for the sprint are too varied to manage to a single sprint goal. That's why I wrote a chapter about meetings in Manage It! The Wednesday Agenda 9:30- 10 am (or thereabouts) demo the progress the team made. What should the Scrum Master do?” These are regular facilitation skills, nothing fancy.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 31, 2019

However, some people thought they could get developers to be system testers—and vice versa. Hooks for logs and demos. Anything else that makes development, testing, demo, and release easier. The post Rethinking the Need for Generalizing Specialists appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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ConsultX

MARCH 1, 2022

History of the Profit Leakage Calculator ConsultX has developed its own Profit Leakage Calculator as a diagnostic tool to discover the areas of a business that are draining the most profit. Calculation The Profit Leakage Calculator processes the financial and Business Analysis information based on a highly developed algorithm.

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Jerry Fletcher

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

I was zooming today with the founder of an organization using Mighty Networks as the software they use to manage their expanding community. Here’s how I stay connected and still manage to keep my business thriving: I plan my weeks to assure blocks of time for clients. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. Lots of content.

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Jerry Fletcher

APRIL 24, 2021

Here are some of the reasons I’m being asked to present this information: Quotes: In a panel on Lead development I said, “ More is not better. Scientists have found 8 management behaviors that use Oxytocin balance to make people more productive. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. What’s Changed? That’s Trust in the New Normal.

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Jerry Fletcher

DECEMBER 11, 2021

I’ve come to the conclusion that Contact Relationship Management is no longer an arena I want to work in. Management doesn’t understand it and more importantly does not understand that tasking sales-people with upkeep is a losing proposition. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel. For the future. And so it goes.

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