PM Alliance

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Below are some steps project teams can take to understand what goes into a site assessment and prepare for a productive location visit. Mobilize internal subject matter experts, from production line supervisors to maintenance personnel and engineers.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 8, 2021

2 Considerations to Move from Whirlwind to Productivity. 2 More Considerations to Move from Whirlwind to Productivity. And that is the point: it all comes down to productivity. The post How to Eliminate the Whirlwind & Increase Productivity appeared first on Rick Conlow. So, where do we draw the line?

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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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MishTalk

AUGUST 17, 2017

The Fed accidentally released its Industrial Production report a half hour early today. with an Econoday consensus o 0.3. Manufacturing was a disaster, down 0.1% vs an Econoday consensus of +0.2%. more…).

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2020

In a conversation about product quality, the product owner said, “If the testers found the problems faster, we would be done faster.” That's because product development is a system of work. If you pressure one piece of the system and don't accommodate that pressure elsewhere, you create bad products.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 30, 2022

While this distributor reports monthly income, they only pay once a quarter. The series: How I Manage My Product Development: Ease with Continuous Flow (Day 1). How Cycle Time and Cost of Delay Makes Product Development Decisions Easier (Day 2). And the writing workshop will make more money sooner than the book will.

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Development Productivity Video Agile 98

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

You might even call them/use them as product teams. You might wonder about organizing all the work as product work. The “Typical Product Development Organization” shows the kind of organization I see most often. The various development directors correspond to the various horizontal layers in the product.

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PM Alliance

JANUARY 21, 2022

Maintaining strong productivity throughout your project’s lifecycle—across all the functional areas working to move an initiative from planning to execution—is a core component in achieving consistent project success. Difficult situations, however, often create challenges when it comes to keeping productivity levels up.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2018

As a coach and mentor focusing on productivity, I’ve heard this complaint hundreds of times, from managers and officials across the world. Productivity has many aspects. A majority of U.S. employees complain that they feel overwhelmed, according to surveys. Both will go a long way toward helping you achieve your goals.

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1 to 1

JULY 5, 2023

According to 2023 Omdia research: 62% of companies can’t engage across channels in a personalized way 55% can’t predict customer needs 42% are challenged with using data to obtain customer insights Generative AI is changing this landscape, D’Antonio said, by enabling personalized responses, content, and product decisions.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 16, 2019

While the organization might use products and product lines, the software people work in projects. I've said in the past that as soon as we have more work than teams to do the work, we need to switch from one product to another. Imagine one product with three releases: Projects 1, 2, 3. Products vs Value Streams.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 22, 2024

This refers to a situation where an additional layer of management is inserted between you and your current reporting line. They become your new direct supervisor and you now report to them instead of your previous boss. Essentially, it means that someone else is hired or promoted to a position above you.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In this part, I’ll discuss an option for a product-oriented organization. Consider a Product-Oriented Organization. Instead of organizing by function, consider a product-oriented organization. Again, I am not saying this is the only way a product organization would look, but this is a possibility. What do you do?

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Rod Burkert

OCTOBER 30, 2019

On to this week: Over the years, by design , most of our non-litigation valuation reports have come to look the same. Your report checks all of the expected boxes. You have just further commoditized your product. If we both meet spec, what is going to make my report stand out against yours? They meet spec. In real life.

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MishTalk

JULY 14, 2017

The Fed G17 report shows Industrial Production is up 0.4% Mining is once again the highlight of an otherwise soft industrial production report. Mining is once again the highlight of an otherwise soft industrial production report. Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization. and April from +1.1

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Kai Davis

JANUARY 21, 2021

What’s your most productive time of the day? The older I get (and the more that I internalize that heroically YOLO’ing myself through an all-nighter to ship a project does not work) , the more my interest in productivity + neurobiology grows. How can we figure out the times of day when we’re the most productive? No meetings.

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Peter Stark

MARCH 7, 2023

One of the most common mistakes that managers make is not having one-on-one meetings with their direct reports or not holding meetings with any kind of consistency. That should be enough for any leader to jump on board with wanting to hold one-on-one meetings with their direct reports. Let your direct report speak first.

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Rod Burkert

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

I guess I never really thought about what happens after delivering a report. All I let myself think is: report done – answer some questions – next client, please. But of course, there is that very last (and critical) step of “selling” the report to the client. The real work begins after the report is delivered.

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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. In these situations, the manager has a few choices. Stay neutral.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Most entrepreneurs and product managers (PMs) know that they need to find out what people want. The collected information is then taken into product development meetings, focusing all future engineering efforts on addressing the customer pain points in a way that can be monetized.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 15, 2024

In an annual survey assessing attitudes about data, analytics, and AI, data and technology leaders in large companies reported significant improvement in their organizations’ data culture. To take advantage of this, companies need to invest in experimentation, production deployment, and education.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 9, 2017

The BLS report on preliminary Productivity and Costs, Second Quarter 2017 shows nonfarm business productivity increased 0.9 Productivity is defined as “real” inflation-adjusted output divided by aggregate hours worked. First, let’s dive into the report. percent during the second quarter of 2017.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 17, 2023

I'm reviewing experience report proposals for the XP 2023 conference. I want to read this report! Experience reports allow us to learn from each other, from the successes and the failures and everything in between. And experience reports tell the story of those experiences. That's the structure of an experience report.

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MishTalk

JUNE 15, 2017

For example, the Econoday consensus estimate for the manufacturing component of industrial production was +0.2%. Today’s Industrial Production report shows manufacturing fell 0.4%. Overall, economists expected industrial production to be +0.2%. Instead, production was flat. more…).

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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. I'm not linking to the report, because the advice is so bad.) My peers and I were reacting to the ideas in the report.

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BCG

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Report Wednesday, October 26, 2016. In this report, BCG’s fourth annual study of shareholder value creation in ECS, we introduce the ECS Technology Index—a portfolio of 17 publicly listed technology and IT companies that participate in the industry. Look for growth opportunities in technology.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Indeed, a 2015 survey showed that 71% of women do not report sexual harassment, and far fewer bystanders report harassment that they have witnessed. Why do so few victims and observers report sexual harassment? So what can we do to reduce fear around reporting sexual harassment? Fear of retaliation. Masculine culture.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Products fueled by data and machine learning can be a powerful way to solve users’ needs. Classic examples include Google search and Amazon product recommendations, both of which improve as more users engage. Data products are a team sport. Develop the data-savvy of product and business groups.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

These systems can suggest relevant products that customers are likely to enjoy. For example, Alibaba, a leading Chinese e-commerce company, could conduct sentiment analysis of customer reviews of individual products and services, and use these insights to modify existing products and develop new ones.

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1 to 1

MARCH 21, 2023

The event, held live after a three-year hiatus, is so named because it focuses on the four pillars of experience management: customer, employee, brand, and product experience. People would rather wait longer on hold to get an empathetic experience,” said Brad Anderson, president of products and engineering at Qualtrics.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

Based on these insights, we now propose a new blueprint for financial reporting of digital companies. The company’s first revenues indicate the acceptance of its product or services by customers. The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model.

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Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 5, 2024

Fact: HubSpot reports that 81% of shoppers conduct online research before making a purchase. Fact: The Packaging Digest reports that 72% of consumers believe that packaging design influences their purchasing decisions. Statistic: According to Nielsen, 59% of consumers prefer to buy new products from brands familiar to them.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The more direct reports you have, the harder it is to give each of them personal attention. But giving them the latitude to make their own decisions will not only increase their productivity, but it will also help them develop new skills. So how can you be a supportive manager if you manage a large team?

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MishTalk

MARCH 17, 2017

Today’s industrial production report, for February, shows weak headline numbers. Is this yet another weather-related industrial production report? Manufacturing, however, shows strength. more…).

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Initial Reaction Some of the skew in last month''s job report related to the government shutdown was taken back today, as expected. In essence, this was a bad report, with people dropping out of the labor force like mad. With these revisions, employment gains in September and October combined were 8,000 higher than previously reported.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Companies trying this approach end up becoming frustrated by the number of spreadsheets required to capture the information necessary to generate accurate reporting, complete project analysis and process project billings. This also mandates generating project reports outside of the ERP solution’s report writer.

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