Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For years, managers have been trying to find ways to make software product development faster and easier. I think of spreadsheets as an unintentional, but prime example of this. AI to take the place of humans in product development. There is one silver bullet for product development—the speed of team learning time.

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Epicflow

MAY 12, 2022

What do you need to know to allocate resources efficiently in a multi-project environment and utilize them to the full? Resources are allocated efficiently when the right people work on the right tasks, while employees’ workload remains balanced – they are neither over- or underloaded. . Let’s figure it out in the article. .

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

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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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Flow Efficiency In How Centralization Decisions Create Friction, Increase Cycle Time, and Cost Money, Part 1, I discussed how removing support staff for departments and managers created longer cycle times. Now, it's time for Economies of Scale and how that ties into resource efficiency thinking. Ignorance of the flow metrics.

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Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 30, 2024

This article explores how consulting services contribute to the success of startups, small businesses, and larger enterprises, supported by facts, statistics, and real-world examples. Real-world Example: A tech startup struggling with scalability engaged a business consultant to optimize its operations.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

We hear a lot these days about project-based organizations vs. product-based organizations. Much of what we do in software is in service of products. Products tend to evolve over time. Here are some examples of projects where we learn, but the product doesn’t change: Events, such as weddings or conferences.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 11, 2019

That intent might be an entire product. That cross-functional team is a product team or a feature team. I tend to call them feature teams because they might move from feature set to feature set when they work as part of a program or over time as the product evolves. Change Team Organization to Focus on Product or Features.

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Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Instead, employees participate at times that are convenient to them, ensuring organizational productivity. They can focus the coursework on critical skill areas, allowing them to close knowledge gaps quickly and efficiently. With that approach, eLearning programs become far more efficient.

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Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 13, 2022

For instance, calculating the value-add of new manufacturing equipment that expedites production is relatively simple. You can compare productivity and output quality improvements to your current state, allowing you to see precisely when the higher rate of production offsets the implementation cost and results in gains.

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Epicflow

MARCH 19, 2024

The Epicflow team continues implementing the most powerful functionality to provide our clients with a variety of tools to juggle projects and resources most efficiently. Team Management: A Solution for Software Development and Agile Squads We’re proud to introduce this new feature that allows you to group your resource pool into teams.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 10, 2023

For example, in the financial industry, AI can be used to detect fraud, predict stock prices, and manage risk. In manufacturing, AI can be used to optimise supply chains, increase the efficiency of production processes, and predict equipment failures. AI systems are only as good as the data they are trained on.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 7, 2023

Business development and sales are two of the most critical components of any successful business. They are closely related, with business development focusing on identifying new opportunities and building relationships, and sales being the process of actually closing deals and generating revenue.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Maybe you're skeptical of whether it is possible to develop a creative and innovative team and believe you should just hire for it. A common argument presented in support of team development is that if people were born with creativity, we would observe more consistency in creativity among team members.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

How do we move from a project-based organization towards a product organization? I’ve noticed these challenges in companies who want to move to a more product-oriented approach: The reward system rewards resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. Work Toward the Product Organization with Team Behaviors.

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Chad Barr

MAY 1, 2024

Innovation isn’t just about introducing something new—it involves creating, developing, and implementing ideas, methods, or products that significantly improve or completely replace the old. Every day, humanity ventures into realms of innovation and creation previously unimagined.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Now however, controversy about the productivity challenges of leading remote work teams confront organizational assumptions about its effectiveness. The Council on Foreign Relations shares global research on how productivity increases in remote work settings. Owl Labs date says they are 47% more productive. hours a week.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Leveraging Cutting-Edge Technologies Under current conditions of economic turbulence, workforce shortage, and supply chain disruptions, manufacturing organizations should work towards increasing the efficiency of their operations, achieving business agility and resilience. Here are some of the examples. AI-driven applications).

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Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Along with staying current on your company’s products or services, they need a strong skill set that propels them forward. By offering the right training opportunities, you can ensure that they hone crucial capabilities while also keeping them informed about new product or service developments.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 16, 2023

For example, implementing new IT software for a business unit. For example, the enterprise may be facing a profitability decline and needs to conduct a strategic assessment. Consultants will also need to work with the client to develop a plan for collecting and analyzing the data. The HBPS process has five key steps.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 12, 2022

For example, it can be hard to create the same dynamic during an online meeting since the majority of the meaning in our communication is conveyed via body language. Being able to break off into smaller groups and develop personal rapport will lead the same group of people to socialise and now often speak too much.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Since the philosophies, frameworks, and insights developed by top firms contribute to the business practices which play a role in making the economic system unsustainable, a crisis signals the need for reflection. This system drastically reduces the need for inventory, which boosts production efficiency in two major ways.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 21, 2023

This article explores how consulting firms can support companies in realizing the benefits of clean teach, and presents five specific examples of how consulting firms can adapt their services to help organizations embrace clean tech solutions. It also includes fostering partnerships with environmentally conscious suppliers.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 14, 2023

The wealth manager will then work with the client to set financial goals and develop a plan to achieve those goals. This process may include developing a budget, setting short-term and long-term financial goals, and identifying any potential roadblocks that may prevent the client from achieving their goals.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Here's what happens with code review (see the image): We have a cross-functional team, Jane, Peter, and Tim, along with a product owner, Allan. Jane and Peter are developers, Tim is a tester. Instead of treating people as individuals (resource efficiency thinking), what if you looked at the team as a harmonic whole?

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2022

developing a poor project plan), Executing (e.g., For example, welding can be dangerous for workers; assembling an air- or a spacecraft involves moving large-scale parts from one facility to another, working on the top of an air-/spacecraft, which increases chances for accidents and/or employees’ injuries. . Chances of accidents.

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PM Alliance

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Training and professional development leverage technology more than ever. With so much of the professional development sphere turning to digital tools, everyone needs to get at least passably good at navigating how these new technologies teach. It has long been understood that different people learn in different ways.

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Epicflow

JUNE 12, 2023

A phase-gate process (also known as a stage-gate process) is an approach to managing projects and developing products, which breaks the whole procedure down into phases separated by gates. Currently, the approach is used to manage R&D, product or software development projects or other large and complex initiatives.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Web developers can leverage analytics to drive website improvements. For example, you may have on average 1 minute and 15 seconds to drive a user to purchase your product. This is important because areas that receive high clicks should have buttons that drive an important action: for example, a “Sign Up Now” or “Buy Now” button.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How to make sure that a company utilizes its available resources wisely so that they are productive but aren’t overloaded? Resource utilization is one of the most essential KPIs that project-based organizations should track – it gives them an idea of how efficiently they use the available resources and how productive their employees are.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Software is key to the efficiency of organizations in almost every industry. For example, if there was a power outage, the app could automatically inform a technician and send them a map of the fastest route to get to the relevant location.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 31, 2023

Our assessment identified a silo mentality throughout the organization and minimal leadership development or training. We addressed the issues with new communication channels, customer service and quality initiatives, on-going quality leadership training for all leaders (executives, too), and team development applications.

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Epicflow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While the complexity of construction projects is increasing, digitalization provides construction companies with a number of benefits: high efficiency of processes, precise project planning and visualization, real-time cooperation, new market opportunities, reduced risks, more effective decision-making, optimized construction costs, etc. [5;

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 13, 2023

As a strategy consultant at a boutique management consulting firm, I am always on the lookout for new tools that can help organizations become more efficient, effective, and innovative. One of the key risks posed by ChatGPT is the potential for it to perpetuate or amplify biases that are present in the data it was trained on.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 25, 2014

One the other hand, possibilities for competitive differentiation and new products seem limitless. For example, Opower tapped into a great market using software-as-a-service and a behavioral efficiency model for saving energy. Strategy Development. How can we develop the organizational fortitude to succeed?

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Epicflow

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Its features should help project and resource managers address all the complexity of managing shared resources and facilitate their efficient utilization. . Efficient resource allocation in a multi-project environment is impossible without up-to-date information on team members’ competences.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 21, 2022

Its current development is primarily driven by 4 major trends: connectivity, autonomous vehicles, shared mobility, and electrification. global chip shortage), and the need for reducing production costs add to the above-mentioned difficulties. . For example, the application of the latest manufacturing technologies (e.g.

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Clarity Consultants

AUGUST 24, 2023

From offering an enhanced learning experience to your clients to increasing your firm’s productivity and efficiency, these are a few reasons why you should keep up with the advancing technology within instructional design. They also conduct research, such as surveys and interviews, to get feedback from clients and learners.

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