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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? That means you have options, not a backlog, for your products.

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How to Understand Key Metrics in a New Industry

Tom Spencer

The productivity of a researcher can be evaluated using an index such as the h-index. In business, productivity and performance is often measured using financial ratios that can be used to compare firms across the industry. All industries use numbers and metrics to describe performance, measure trends, and allocate status.

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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. 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 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

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. Those are functional skills. Industry expertise.

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Most Important Metrics to Track for a Consulting Business: Video

Consulting Success

Video Transcript: Let’s talk about metrics. Specific metrics that you can use to get more clients, win more business , and actually grow your consulting business. There’s four metrics in one track. Metric number three that you want to track is proposals. These four metrics give you a lot of information.

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