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

Johanna Rothman

If you read the article above or any of the other articles you can find online, you might notice Economies of Scale focus on production—specifically manufacturing production. That's not product development—and that's the first place we get stuck with Economies of Scale thinking. Ignorance of the flow metrics.

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Assessing Change Management Effectiveness: Essential Metrics

Epicflow

In this article, we’ll consider some essential metrics that can be used to assess the fruitfulness of change management efforts. . The approach was developed by Prosci experts [1] based on change practitioners’ survey. To assess the organizational performance, the following metrics can be used: . Assessing performance .

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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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Unemployed Agilists: How to Move from a Staff Role to a Line Job, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

In product development, line jobs contribute to the products themselves, which means they contribute to revenue. While managers can determine how different various developers, testers, UX, etc people are, very few managers can differentiate one agile coach from another. Worse, many staff jobs are commodity positions.

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CSR: Collaborating with NPOs for Positive Social Impact

Tom Spencer

A business should seek out a non-profit that shares similar values and goals, whether that be in the areas of health, education, youth development, public safety, or ESG. For example, Darden restaurant group’s partnership with Food Donation Connection (FDC) is a great example of mission alignment.

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Looking Beyond Short Term Financial Metrics (Nigel Lake, Part 2 of 10)

Tom Spencer

Tom: Do you think that short term financial metrics are part of the problem in developing long term strategy? Nokia is a very good example of a company [that was dominated by this kind of myopia]. So Nokia had the technology to develop and produce an iPhone several years before Apple released it? HP is an example.

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Servant Leadership: Principles, Popularity, and Payoff

Rick Conlow

5 Companies that Lead by Example through Servant Leadership Check out these examples of companies that have applied servant leadership principles. The Container Store offers its employees competitive pay and benefits, as well as a strong focus on training and development.