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

Johanna Rothman

Next, How Value and Cost of Delay—Not Cost Savings—Applies to Centralization Decisions Part 2 , I explained how to think about the value of work instead of predicted costs. 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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Unemployed Agilists: How to Show Your Value to Support What Managers Want, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

What Managers Want: More Net Income Let me start with a very simplified profit and loss discussion using the ideas of AARRR “Pirate Metrics” to describe what managers want. All the costs: marketing costs to acquire customers, onboarding costs to activate customers, and product development costs for the product itself.

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

Johanna Rothman

Staff jobs only offer intangible and peripheral value, as I briefly discussed in Unemployed Agilists: How to Show Your Value to Support What Managers Want, Part 1. In product development, line jobs contribute to the products themselves, which means they contribute to revenue. Worse, many staff jobs are commodity positions.

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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? If your team has a customer, you're doing some form of product development. However, hiring managers expect deep agile expertise that connect to the Pirate metrics. But that's a different post.)

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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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How to Create Better Products With Much Less of a Backlog

Johanna Rothman

Do you have an overstuffed backlog the way Jenny did in Create More Success: How to Say No to “Everything” to Say Yes to What’s Necessary Now ? How can you prevent an overstuffed backlog, roadmap, or all those great ideas from interrupting your team from finishing its work? I offered “now” advice in that newsletter.

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How to Better Develop Managers

LSA Global

Better Develop Managers Because managers are the hub of most organizations, you’d think that building management capabilities would be an essential pillar of an executive’s plan for business success. Better develop your managers now if you want your company to fire on all cylinders. The 4 Management Metrics that Matter Most.