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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors. Keeping participant numbers limited to those who are essential to the discussion is crucial for efficiency.

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How to Tame Uncertainty of Research and Development: Tips on Managing R&D Projects

Epicflow

Nevertheless, this doesn’t mean that these projects cannot be successfully managed. Read the article to find out how to cope with the uncertainty in R&D projects and increase the chances of achieving desired outcomes. In addition, changing requirements are commonplace for research and development projects.

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Harmony & Rythm in Organizational Development

Harmonious Workplaces

Parallels between shared music-making and OD In the dynamic world of organizational development (OD), business leaders oftentimes find themselves on a continuous quest to find innovative and effective strategies for fostering teamwork, navigating change, and enhancing employee well-being.

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Why Very Few (If Any) People Are “10x” Developers—Or Managers

Johanna Rothman

Steve, a software development manager, thought John was a “10x” developer. Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers? Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers?

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How To Recognize Effective Project and Program Management

Johanna Rothman

Several people on social media have denigrated the terms “project manager” and “program manager.” ” These people claim there is no need for either role in an effective team, especially an agile team because the team can manage its own deliverables. Facilitating the team's collaboration.

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How to Use Flow Metrics to See if Your Economies of Scale Offer Value, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

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.

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Little’s Law for Any Kind of Product Development: How to Learn How Long Your Work Will Take

Johanna Rothman

These are delays due to management decision time.). Manage your environment or culture. Manage Your Environment. I much prefer to start with organizational WIP (Work in Progress), to manage the project portfolio. See Manage Your Project Portfolio.) I'm not sure how much WIP any given team should have.