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How to Create Partnerships Instead of Using Stakeholders

Johanna Rothman

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. ” For years, I explained that the more often the team or program could demo, the more the project or program could engage its stakeholders. Demo that value on a regular cadence. Now, John Cutler has changed my mind.

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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. See How to Plan for Change: Clear Strategy, Small Deliverables, Rolling Wave with Options.) What if you have no visual progress yet ?

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Shorter Plans Results in More Management Ease and Better Results

Johanna Rothman

But there are several problems with all this planning: These plans require prediction at all levels, from strategy to product to what the team delivers. However, too often, the managers prevent product innovations or strategy changes because they planned so much. They plan and replan—and ask the teams to plan and replan.

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How WIP Insights Allow Us to Revisit Brooks’ Law About Adding People to a Team

Johanna Rothman

This team started off with a serial lifecycle, so they didn't even plan to have a demo until about September or so. I chose to add more testers and writers and increase the team's collaboration so we could see a monthly demo. That strategy worked in many more projects from the late 80s through the mid-2000s.

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Best Practices for Accelerating the Sales Process

Think about it: with outbound prospecting, requests from management, scheduled demos, and inbound calls, chaos can quickly work its way into your strategy, deeming a “speed wins” selling mentality downright ineffective. This eBook takes a look at three headache-free strategies you can employ today to accelerate selling the right way.

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Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

The first was not waiting for the end of an iteration to demo or release. They demo'd every week on Wednesday mornings and then they released after the demo. Sets the stage for how I think about strategy and tactics). They want an agile approach, so they started with Scrum. It didn't take long for them to make changes.

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Profit Leakage Calculator: Diagnose How Much Profit a Business is Losing

ConsultX

Why is it so effective at communicating to Business Owners Here are seven strategies that we’ve tested and proven to get and keep ideal clients – ones that stay on for the long term. Check out a demo of the ConsultX System, including the Profit Leakage Calculator. Watch 6 Minute Demo of ConsultX and the Profit Leakage Calculator.