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A Common Tool Trap: the Tool Will Help Your Delivery and Planning Problems

Johanna Rothman

Many of these people want to use a tool to plan from the “bottom” (what the teams do) to the top (roadmaps and portfolio). And, they want metrics. Worse, they want to start with a tool. See Schedule Game #11: The Schedule Tool is Always Right as an example.). I have nothing against tools. We will see.

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How to Understand Key Metrics in a New Industry

Tom Spencer

All industries use numbers and metrics to describe performance, measure trends, and allocate status. Using the metrics for decision making. The first step to understanding a new set of metrics is to put them into context. By adding a reference point one can better understand the impact and significance of the 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. . To assess the organizational performance, the following metrics can be used: . The assessment of individual performance may include the following metrics: . Change management performance .

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A Quick Guide to Essential Project Management Metrics

Epicflow

This is where project management metrics come into play – they provide project managers with useful insights as to a project’s “health”. What are these metrics, what are they used for, and how to calculate them? What are project management metrics and why do you need them? What are the most common project management metrics?

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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.) We can file all those ideas into an electronic tool. Then we only have to deal with all those ideas when we open the tool. However, the larger the backlog gets, the worse we feel when we open the tool.

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Unemployed Agilists: How to Move from a Staff Role to a Line Job, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

Tools and technology: Operating systems, languages, anything specifically technical. I like to say I am an old programmer, because my tools and technology skills are in old languages and operating systems that no one cares about and often, no longer exist. At what level do you understand the products you’ve worked on?

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How to Move from Story Points and Magical Thinking to Cycle Time for Decisions

Johanna Rothman

If your tool calculates cycle time, use that. Here's how to do the cycle time calculation if you have a lot of data and no tool: The formula is End Date minus Start Date. If you're not sure about cycle time, read Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers. Add in the start and end dates.

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