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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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An Illuminating Conversation with Tobias Schlottke About Modern Management

Johanna Rothman

I had a chance to speak with Tobias Schlottke on his Alphalist podcast: Episode 92: Johanna Rothman The Pragmatic Manager. We had a wide-ranging conversation, mostly about management. We included topics from my programming experience, why multitasking is a disaster, and how to use flow metrics to understand reality.

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COVID-19 Economic Recovery & Metrics

CaseInterview.com

Second, I ask for specific metrics from their business. My job when doing a patient assessment is to capture the initial data set, track those metrics over time, and figure out the story the data is telling me. As I started to get better at understanding, recognizing, and interpreting these key metrics, I had an epiphany.

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

Are you a manager accustomed to Management by Walking Around and Listening (MBWAL) ? You have an opportunity to work differently as a manager. Substitute video for MBWAL. If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. And won't be for a while.).

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Fun Discussion with Luke Pivac About Agility and Employment

Johanna Rothman

Here's the video: We discussed several topics: My recent Unemployed Agilists posts. That link just goes to the first post) My most recent book: Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. Luke Pivac, a colleague from New Zealand, interviewed me last week. I hope you enjoy this one.

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PM Interview Question – What’s Your Favorite Product and Why

Tom Spencer

Like a consulting interview, a product manager (PM) interview consists of multiple parts, including a case study and a behavioral portion, which looks for communication, management, and prioritization skills. But what’s different is that it adds a twist by having product-related questions as well. Which product to pick?

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Consulting Tip #6: Use Your Intellectual Property to Build Political Capital

Johanna Rothman

When I saw the McKinsey report on “developer productivity,” I shuddered. Second, there's no way to measure such a thing as developer productivity, despite what McKinsey says. Then I read Lorin Hochstein's brilliant assessment in On productivity metrics and management consultants. I'm sure I do not.