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How to Understand Key Metrics in a New Industry

Tom Spencer

These numbers were used to describe the health of a business or industry, to identify trends, or point out top performers. To help me understand these new numbers I use analogies based on my initial training to help me understand a new industry. Using the metrics for decision making. Using the metrics for decision making.

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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. Industry expertise. The unsaid expectations of the industry in which you work. Problem space is a customer (outside) orientation.

Agile 101
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Unemployed Agilists: How to Increase Your Value to Get a Great Job, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

However, hiring managers expect deep agile expertise that connect to the Pirate metrics. These managers might not know how to ask for what they want, but that's what they want.) And too many of those certification classes don't discuss how Scrum is a subset of lean.

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LSA Global Delivers Sales Leadership Workshop for an Industrial Technology Company

LSA Global

How to Manage Sales Teams to Greater Accountability Ensure all sales team members are accountable for high performance sales metrics and understand the “why” behind how their success is measured, monitored, and rewarded. Learn more about getting aligned.

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Best Practices for a Marketing Database Cleanse

Multiple industry studies confirm that regardless of industry, revenue, or company size, poor data quality is an epidemic for marketing teams. This buyers guide will cover: Review of important terminology, metrics, and pricing models related to database management projects.

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Unemployed Agilists: Review the Hype Cycle & Your Agility to Help You Manage Future Job Changes, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

All jobs evolve and change as any industry changes. Instead, we can invite them to change, by showing the value with the pirate metrics. While we now know how to manage agile and lean programs (with both hardware and software) and create an agile approach to the project portfolio , too many organizations do not use those approaches.

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How to Use Corporate Training Metrics to Drive Value

LSA Global

Are corporate training metrics simply an exercise in futility that pleases training experts and HR but otherwise has no meaningful value to the business? Successful companies have learned that corporate training metrics have tremendous value in three areas: Helping to evaluate what matters (where to focus your efforts).

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