Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

For example, if your goal is to increase sales, your L&D programs might focus on enhancing sales techniques, product knowledge, or customer relationship management skills. Productivity metrics: Assess changes in output per employee or team efficiency. Output per employee: Track changes in individual or team productivity levels.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 24, 2021

In Part 1 and 2 of this series, I wrote about how an agile approach might offer strategic benefits. And because an agile approach changes your culture, I said the agile approach was part of your strategy. So let's ask this question: Can any tool—agile or otherwise—offer you a strategic advantage? (I

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2021

One of my clients wants to use shared services “teams” as they start their agile transformation. Their developers work on a product for months and years at a time. ” Shared service-thinking denies the reality of effective product development: A cross-functional team learns together as they develop the product. .”

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

Support and training providing tools, templates, and training to project teams to enhance their productivity and adherence to standards. Improved Resource Allocation Efficient resource allocation is crucial for optimizing productivity and avoiding burnout. Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid).

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

By providing real-time insights and streamlining complex workflows, project portfolio management tools empower organizations to handle diverse initiatives with precision and agility. Scenario Planning and What-If Analysis Simulates different scenarios to evaluate potential outcomes.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Are you trying to make an agile framework or approach work? Maybe you've received a mandate to “go agile.” Or, maybe you're trying to fit an agile framework into your current processes—and you've got a mess. I've seen plenty of problems when people try to adopt “agile” wholesale.

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Epicflow

JUNE 8, 2022

Agile has become the most popular methodology in recent years and has proven its efficiency for millions of companies already so nobody has any doubts about it today. Being agile means being flexible enough to adequately and timely react to any alterations of your project environment and any external changes that may happen at any time.

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Clarity Consultants

JUNE 30, 2023

This is because they are better equipped to handle tasks, solve problems, and deliver high-quality work–all of which impact organizational productivity. The more self-assured they feel, the more motivated they will be to work hard, which of course, also increases productivity. For some, this can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Isn't every iterative and incremental approach an agile approach? We often hear agile approaches are a mindset. An agile approach requires a change in culture at the team level, at the portfolio level, and in management. Agile approaches change what we discuss, how we work together, and what we reward. Release trains.

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Epicflow

MARCH 19, 2024

This time, we’ve prepared updates that will prove useful for those who work in an Agile environment, use Jira + Epicflow integration as well as those dealing with manufacturing, machine building, and other complex phased projects. Keeping track of teams’ capacity You can use the Load Analysis feature to analyze the team members’ workload.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. As Google Ventures’ five-day method has shown, sprints help bypass bureaucracy, “analysis paralysis,” and endless debate cycles.

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Agile Strategy& Strategy Strategy 70

Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

These systems can suggest relevant products that customers are likely to enjoy. For example, businesses like Netflix, Youtube, Amazon, and Airbnb use AI-powered recommendation systems to suggest movies, videos, products, and rental properties based on a user’s browsing history, past purchases, and revealed preferences based on past behavior.

Data 147

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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.

Productivity 60

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Specifics of Project Management for Manufacturing Companies The manufacturing environment deals with creating physical products, which in turn embraces a variety of processes that should be properly managed. This challenge is complexified by the demand for the high quality of delivered products and a lack of human resources.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 21, 2022

global chip shortage), and the need for reducing production costs add to the above-mentioned difficulties. . In addition, to stay competitive on the market, business owners will struggle to deliver their products faster and produce more (e.g. The need to shorten the time for product development. Dealing with uncertainty.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

Many of my clients are trying to use short feedback loops in agile approaches. High Need for Product Innovation and Change. The more need for product innovation and change, the shorter the feedback loops need to be. I wrote about this in Create Your Successful Agile Project.)

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. This includes the product, the buying process, the ability to provide support, and customer relationships over time. ” This analysis can be done across different digital initiatives, geographies, channels, or even individual pieces of content.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Lazy Project Manager: How to Be Twice as Productive and Still Leave the Office Early by Peter Taylor The Lazy Project Manager is based on the idea that lazy people always try to find easier ways to do what they have to. So, focusing on 20% of the most important work will result in 80% outcomes.

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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. Agility and scale rarely co-exist in the design of the organizational operating model. But tangible examples of these new ways of working are few and far between. The global/local tension.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For years, managers have been trying to find ways to make software product development faster and easier. Here are just the one I've experienced in the 70s, 80s, 90s: Structured Analysis and Design. “Agile” as a way to do much more work in much less time. (NO! AI to take the place of humans in product development.

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2024

In addition, their focus on effective resource allocation, stakeholder engagement, and change management contributes to enhanced operational efficiency, increased agility, and improved project outcomes. It’s also important to be able to perform financial analysis and assess project profitability. What organizations require a CPO?

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

Finding valuable insights: Structured and unstructured data sources can uncover patterns and relationships that reveal customer needs, expose system vulnerabilities and improve productivity and performance. Tailoring products to individual needs: Big data allows an organisation to narrowly segment customers. 2015, August 28).

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

Analysis has become the primary tool in this regard. Moreover, our bias toward analysis makes us blind to the limitations of analytical “proof.” ” Proof comes from the analysis of past data. In the face of this dynamic, it isn’t enough to create new products and services. Designing the New Product.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Forum participants will have an opportunity to learn from inspirational project management leaders as well as attend masterclasses revealing the aspects of delivering sustainable projects, Agile transformation, application of technologies, and more. is the largest Agile conference in Central Europe. PMO London 2024 June, 18-19.

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Epicflow

MAY 4, 2023

Research and development projects involve the process of discovering new ideas, technologies, and solutions to create new products (or services) or improve existing ones. Will the developed product satisfy customers and be relevant in the market? In addition, changing requirements are commonplace for research and development projects.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 31, 2021

See the Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics series.) Not to mention your team is frantically trying to progress through all the “tickets” or “PBIs” (Product Backlog Items). Here's how I work with teams (management or product teams) to create their own boards.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

The computational agility of cloud computing has been playing a role in manufacturing as well, fostering the creation of new “smart’” products. The dataset for our analysis comes from Aberdeen Information’s call center which has been making annual phone calls to millions of firms across the U.S.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Many of my clients use an iteration-based agile approach. They have to manage extra work—work they had not estimated—in the form of an emergency or production support. Why are you using an agile approach? I see these problems a lot when the product owner has feature-itis. Why did these emergencies occur?

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In a multi-project environment, ensuring productive work of team members gains even more importance: resources are shared by concurrent projects, and their fruitful work on them will be impossible without wise resource management. . Proper workload management eliminates two major productivity enemies: overwork and idleness.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The first is that Brooks strongly suggested the idea of a “surgical team” That hierarchical team was a feature- or product-based team. Ten people, seven of them professionals, are at work on the problem, but the system is the product of one mind–or at most two, acting uno animo.”

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Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2018

As I discuss in my book Analytics: The Agile Way, how Nextdoor responded illustrates not only the importance of reacting quickly in a crisis , but how useful a data-driven, agile approach can be. Especially at first, this type of data doesn’t lend itself to the type of easy analysis that its structured equivalent does.

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Agile Data Report Guidelines 74

Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

As a VP charged with talent tech innovation at a large consumer products company told us: “We started our digital transformation top-down, creating a sense of urgency and cascading it down. Now it’s much more bottom-up because you have to experiment, you have to do things that are relevant in the field.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2016

The transmission mechanism to the real economy is primarily via delayed or canceled investment decisions or the anticipatory redeployment of employment or production assets. Therefore each company needs to carry out (or take to the next level) its own specific impact analysis. Real economy.

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Industry Financial Strategy Strategy 115

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Those that successfully harvest vast troves of data can improve productivity; make faster and more accurate decisions; reduce costs; increase competitive advantage; discover new business models and innovations; and better engage customers, employees, and partners. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud.

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Enterprise Insurance Insurance Data 78

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

They pursued a variety of tactics before the recession that were designed to fortify the firm when the downturn hit – moves both within sales and beyond like adding a low-cost channel to serve small accounts or simplifying the product assortment. billion vs. $1.2 Automate account management. Where should sales executives start?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 27, 2017

It helped him feel productive, but failing to delegate these tasks meant he never had time to focus on longer-term, strategic issues. In the midst of a major new product launch, he knew that he had to think very carefully about his team’s strategy, but the pressure of impossible deadlines was constant.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

market trend analysis, competitor analysis, and customer feedback) to frequently track and strategically adjust to shifts in market dynamics? Businesses that experience diminishing returns from existing products or services may need to rethink their go-to-market approach. Do you have enough mechanisms in place (e.g.,

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