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How to Create Better Products With Much Less of a Backlog

Johanna Rothman

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for why this happens.) Remember this: If your customers want to use your product, make it easy for them to do so. Because product problems cause several other problems: The customers have to decide if the aggravation of using this product outweighs the defects.

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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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Product Sales Success: How Business Consultants Drive Revenue

Business Consulting Agency

In today’s competitive business landscape, driving product sales is a top priority for companies aiming to achieve sustainable growth. Explore how business consultants can drastically assist companies in increasing product sales and the methodologies they employ to drive success. Want product sales success?

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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. And when the customers refer others to the product and the company, that customer value increases even more. However gross revenue is never enough.

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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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