Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

In the context of project management, a roadmap can span across multiple timelines for continuous product development. Why do you need a product roadmap? A roadmap is crucial for visualizing a product’s strategy that is aligned with your business goals, while incorporating customer insights for future developments. Product Goal.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

One of the big problems I see with a product orientation (as opposed to a project) is in preparing for ongoing work. You might not start the next project for this product after you complete this project. However, if you want to develop a product orientation, you’ll need to consider the future. We call it technical debt.

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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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Markovitz Consulting

DECEMBER 1, 2020

According to BCG’s analysis , productivity at companies that have shifted to remote work has increased between 15% and 40%. Elaborately defined, documented, and monitored processes and procedures? As they put it, “the lockdown has unlocked real work” by reducing or eliminating the complicatedness of the traditional work environment.

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Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Improving Productivity Feels GREAT. :: Did you know that achieving more productivity is pretty simple? So explained Josh Zerkel, Director of Global Community, Channels and Training at Evernote, and Productivity Consultant, and Certified Professional Organizer® at the recent WIC General Meeting. Have a productivity buddy.

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Kraft Kennedy

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Consider the value of being able to ensure consistency across all documents. A tool designed to streamline workflow and increase productivity is gaining rapid adoption across law firms. Copilot’s ability to integrate with the existing applications used for the practice of law makes it a natural fit for firms ready to leverage AI.

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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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Peter Stark

JUNE 6, 2023

When managers find themselves with employee conflicts on their teams, they often find that the morale and productivity of their team has been impacted as well. Below are 9 ways to make a positive difference and restore harmony and productivity to your team. Document agreed upon actions. This documentation serves two purposes.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Gather information about their mission, values, products, and recent achievements. Prepare Your Attire and Documents Appearance matters in an interview, so dress professionally and appropriately for the company culture. Plan your outfit in advance, and ensure that it reflects respect for the opportunity.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2022

” and pointed to a phase-gate approach with documentation deliverables after each phase. Every sprint delivers working product.” ” He said, “We'll deliver documents after each phase.” ” I said, “No, documents are not real deliverables. .” It's not a long document.

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David A Fields

JULY 1, 2014

There’s a choice consultants make every day, and I am convinced that consultants who choose correctly will experience huge gains in their productivity and business-development efforts. Agreements Closing Consultants Context Discussion Creating Value Fees Positioning Proposals adding value agreements Context Document positioning.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2024

And when the customers refer others to the product and the company, that customer value increases even more. Managing expenses means reducing the costs of supplying products and services to customers. Now, open a new document and put your most recent position at the top of the page. However gross revenue is never enough.

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David A Fields

JULY 1, 2014

There’s a choice consultants make every day, and I am convinced that consultants who choose correctly will experience huge gains in their productivity and business-development efforts. Agreements Closing Consultants Context Discussion Creating Value Fees Positioning Proposals adding value agreements Context Document positioning.

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Markovitz Consulting

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Last week, I wrote about how the pandemic lockdown and work from home have made employees more productive by removing some of the bureaucratic barnacles that keep them from doing high value work. But how do we ensure that the administrative “drag”—bloated meetings, excessive documentation, repetitive approvals, etc.—don’t

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

” and still have a great product. Not to release a bad product. No, to release a smaller product. In a regulated industry, the managers can advocate for more agile approaches with auditors and help clear the way from non-value-add documentation. Can you reduce risk by reducing the requirements?

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Markovitz Consulting

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Last week, I wrote about how the pandemic lockdown and work from home have made employees more productive by removing some of the bureaucratic barnacles that keep them from doing high value work. But how do we ensure that the administrative “drag”—bloated meetings, excessive documentation, repetitive approvals, etc.—don’t

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2022

Use a document to develop a brief agenda of what you would like to cover before the call. Use this document to detail specific points, questions, and ideas you would like to discuss during the meeting. Use this document to detail specific points, questions, and ideas you would like to discuss during the meeting.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 19, 2022

A project charter is a document that establishes an agreement between performing and requesting organizations, and formally validates the existence of a project. Once this document is created and approved, a project manager can start work on project planning and implementation. A project charter is based on the following documents. .

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Kraft Kennedy

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Citrix has created documentation that details the new Licensing Telemetry program and the data elements being collected. Deploying the new license server is straightforward and designed to not impact production or non-production systems. These releases are compatible with LTSR or CR deployments.

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Epicflow

MAY 4, 2023

Research and development projects involve the process of discovering new ideas, technologies, and solutions to create new products (or services) or improve existing ones. Will the developed product satisfy customers and be relevant in the market? In addition, changing requirements are commonplace for research and development projects.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JUNE 19, 2017

By presenting a sample change readiness assessment, stakeholder analysis, change strategy document, or an engagement plan, I enabled the client to literally see what they were buying in hiring me. Potential clients will understand and respect you if your document says “XYZ Corp” where the real client name and logo used to be.

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Alan Weiss

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

This is about the ridiculous belief that people won’t be as productive remotely as they are in the office. NO ONE in my entire career has proved to me that they’re putting in 40 productive hours merely by dint of being present in the office. And being “busy” is not the same as being productive.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

But we discovered a surprisingly simple way to increase productivity, one that was low-cost and had immediate impact: better office seating arrangements. Worker performance data broken down into three metrics: Productivity. and Europe. Monthly reports on each employee’s location and assigned cubicle over time. Effectiveness.

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Asamby Consulting

JULY 13, 2022

Learning through experimentation You might test a new product or offering in an experimental setting. A new process, a new product or a new template. Documents and Databases Specific types of knowledge might best be stored in a document (think a case study) or a database (think a new potential lead). Or at least easy.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 25, 2022

This past summer I was a product management intern at PNC Bank where I helped develop a growth strategy. Have a document on your computer open with pre-planned questions to guide your conversation. Keep these documents in a folder on your desktop or Google Drive named “Networking”. Write down relevant notes as they speak.

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Kraft Kennedy

MARCH 27, 2023

Manual installation instructions provided in product documentation. Recommended Action Option 1 (recommended): Citrix recommends customers download and manually install fix for this issue is 23.01.1.60, available at: [link] *Note: Auto Update from older versions to 23.01.1 will not work in this scenario.

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Chad Barr

JANUARY 3, 2024

Learning Resources Choose books, courses, and online tools and platforms to enhance your knowledge and productivity. I encourage you to use it as a living document, revisiting and revising it as the year progresses. Strategies and Action Plan Formulate detailed strategies and action plans with timelines and accountability mechanisms.

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PM Alliance

JUNE 9, 2023

Showcasing your organization’s commitment to innovation and collaboration gets a boost when you add in the career growth and development opportunities associated with in-person mentoring, access to resources that are more difficult to digitize—textile and raw material samples, first-hand exposure to the production area, etc.—and

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 16, 2023

Test ideas quickly, and simply Although designed for small newly established companies, large companies can also innovate by employing the lean start-up method , an entrepreneurial process of quickly testing a new product idea. A common way to test a new product idea is to create a pilot version, which is produced at small-scale.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Create the simulation environment for the team: Decide on a universally accessible whiteboard or common document. (I I don't care what it is, as long as everyone has equal and easy access to that board/document.) I like to ask them to choose a challenging production support problem, or something else that's making them nuts.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 10, 2023

Some of the many ways different business functions could begin utilizing generative AI in the workplace now are: Marketing and sales functions - writing sales copy and creating product user guides. Operations - improving customer service and identifying production errors and defects.

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Kraft Kennedy

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Is it acceptable to use your family computer to access your firm’s work product? The answers to these and hundreds of other questions should be documented and considered integra l to the operations of all organizations, especially in industries where work product and client data are highly sensitive, and highly valuable.

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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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LSA Global

APRIL 21, 2017

When you have invested significant time and money to hire new talent, you look for a payoff…productive employees who are engaged and stay. To learn more, download 7 New Employee Orientation and Onboarding Best Practices to Increase Speed to Productivity. Pretty dismal. What is going wrong? Train on systems.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 4, 2023

Cloud-based document sharing systems like Google Drive and Dropbox can provide seamless and remote access to documents. Blockchain-based supply chain management can track products through the supply chain from procurement and manufacturing to warehousing, transportation, and distribution.

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Steve Shu Consulting

APRIL 2, 2010

Business plans can often take the form of workshop sessions and Powerpoint documents as opposed to a traditional textual Word document. Key goals of the document are to establish trust with prospects, enable the investment idea to be shared via networks, and persuade people of the merits of an investment opportunity.

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Consulthon

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are the documented processes that a company has in place to ensure that services and products are delivered consistently every time. What are SOPs? SOPs are oft.

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