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Unemployed Agilists: How to Increase Your Value to Get a Great Job, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

However, hiring managers expect deep agile expertise that connect to the Pirate metrics. Here are some ideas that might relate your agile experience and expertise to value: How you've used the flow metrics while supporting a project and/or the managers. That idea of inspect and adapt based on learning.) That add little to no value.

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What’s Wrong With Detailed Gantt Charts and How to Make Fewer Details Work for You

Johanna Rothman

In addition, I ask teams to show visual progress , such as in a demo. I want architecture feedback loops as early as possible in the project, which is why I want visual progress with demos. Yes, Little's Law and the flow metrics rule our work. See Predicting the Unpredictable for more details.) That increases WIP.

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

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.). You don't need too many metrics if you can see visible progress.

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Find the Right Metrics for Your Sales Team

Harvard Business

As a consequence, managers don’t have a clear sense of what is really driving sales in their business, while salespeople, who are inundated with dozens of metrics, get lost in the day-to-day noise. The challenge, of course, is to decide on the right metrics. Wins are the most common metric used across sales roles and industries.

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Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1

Johanna Rothman

When I work with these teams or their managers, I realize they're not demoing or retrospecting on a regular basis. I can't get anything done. We have too many delays because we don't have enough of the right kind of people. That's not all. And don't get me started on how coaches tend to do life coaching instead of support for agility.)

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

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.). You don't need too many metrics if you can see visible progress.

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

Johanna Rothman

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for more information. This can work well if you demo something at least monthly once you start writing code and tests. Tip 3: Demo Something Monthly (At a Minimum) The more your project demos your progress, the more other people—especially managers—will trust you.

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