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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? This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility. First, the product-based expertise. That's often product people, testers, and some UI/UX people.

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. The better the team learns together, the better the product is. See Product Orientation Requires Technical Excellence ).

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. The better the team learns together, the better the product is. See Product Orientation Requires Technical Excellence ).

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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). That might be the feature set or the product. ). ” Many managers now realize they don't have to see everything to get an idea of where the team is going with the product. Don't worry about the language.) Go to slides 24, 25, and 26. That's good.

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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. The goal to release the product.

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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.

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

Johanna Rothman

They are: Understand the various risks: project, product, and organization, and how to manage those risks with feedback loops. And product development has at least these risks: Project-based risks, so we can make effective tradeoffs. All roads lead to Flow Metrics.) Plan for shorter projects. Every effort has risks.

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