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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. 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. It might not be a customer-worthy demo, but it's a demo of a sort.).

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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. 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. It might not be a customer-worthy demo, but it's a demo of a sort.).

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

Johanna Rothman

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. You can use the flow metrics, too.

Agile 70
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Low Tech Way to Visualize Your Percentile Confidence for Forecasts

Johanna Rothman

He pointed me to this slideshare: Lightweight Kanban Metrics (in German). Regardless of how your team works, you can demo something inside of a week or two. Part of the article is about forecasts. I was ranting and raving about how to help people see their confidence levels. Don't worry about the language.) Go to slides 24, 25, and 26.

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Consultant Marketing Discovery Meeting

Jerry Fletcher

where you sit down with a prospect and learn about her/his operation and get to ask questions from which you will develop a proposal. In most cases the answer will be that some metric in the sales equation is off. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. I find that it is best to be direct. Often this is a narrow view. And so it goes.

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How to Build a Better Sales Playbook

LSA Global

Do not make the mistake of investing heavily in sales enablement tools until you have alignment around and commitment to your target clients , value proposition , success metrics, and go-to-market sales strategies. Sales Culture.

Sales 28