Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

By Surya Panditi, GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. So organizations today are staying ahead of the curve by scaling agile and building agility into everything they do, and extending agile techniques and practices across teams, teams-of-teams, non-IT organizations and even across the business as a whole.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

However, without a data strategy , the likelihood of achieving successful outcomes is greatly diminished. In today's data-driven world, data is becoming increasingly important for organizations to gain a competitive advantage and make informed decisions. However, simply having a data strategy is not enough.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

And, they want metrics. I wrote a series about that, starting with Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics, Part 1.). Tools Offer Data, Not Problem-Solving. And the only data the tool offers is based on the data you give it. Worse, they want to start with a tool.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Indeed, our experience with senior teams corroborates these data. That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics. This is an area where the data present a more complex picture.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

Forecasting and decision-making Thanks to predictive analytics, PM tools analyze historical data along with current project metrics to predict how the project environment will change. So, we anticipate the focus on data analytics and data-driven decision-making to rank high among future project management trends. [2]

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

They do this with methods proven useful in accelerating software development, such as “ Agile ,” and which are increasingly being used for hardware product development, too. Increasingly, such companies need daily or weekly data on employee motivation to identify and fix motivational issues at the individual, team, and unit level.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Efficient product portfolio management allows a company to be agile and respond to arising market demands. Every product in the portfolio should be evaluated with the help of one of the product success metrics. All team members must have access to historical and real-time data to be able to timely react to transformations.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2025

We know from people manager assessment center data and new manager training participants that a teams potential is rooted in its ability to collaborate effectively, innovate consistently, and adapt to changing circumstances. Teams operate best when they understand, believe in , and commit to a meaningful and shared purpose.

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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. By analyzing historical data provided by Epicflow, CPOs can identify patterns and prevent past issues from recurring.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2024

Every day, I hear more stories of agile coaches or Scrum Masters losing their jobs. Several reasons: No manager cares about “agile” even if they care about agility. So, selling “agile” into the organization doesn’t create any traction for change. But if you didn’t use the flow metrics?

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 16, 2019

I suggested ways to think about more agile budgeting in part 1. You can use real data. If you measure cycle time, you can look for historical data about when teams start something new. Also, see From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Use the data you need to have a more agile approach.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 24, 2024

The first image on the left is their raw spreadsheet data. Yes, this is real data from a client, and I anonymized it. Note several things about this data: No one finishes anything on the weekend. The agile project manager asks, “What percentage confidence are you comfortable with for a given item?

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 3, 2018

I delivered a webinar called Agile Metrics for Team and Product Progress last week, thanks to the nice folks at Innovation Roots. One person gave me a new saying about metrics (at the end, during the Q&A): Are you data-driven or data-informed? And, I use the data about my cycle time to inform my replanning. (I

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. Based on these marketing insights, Intuit created a new feature within its app that combines location data, Google maps, and the user’s calendar to automatically track mileage and simplify year-end tax planning. The metrics also changed.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Along the way, there’s been plenty of literature and executive hand-wringing over hiring and deploying ever-scarce data scientists to make this happen. Translators are neither data architects nor data engineers. Why are translators so important? What exactly is an analytics translator? reducing product delivery time).

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

Your data isn’t even in the picture. By tracking a metric, they can sell optimized wait times (elevators as a service) rather than banks of elevators based on price. That’s our product, and that’s our passion. We are simply not interested in any of it.” The lessons here are clear: The power of focus.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Ever since I was on the Troubleshooting Agile podcast , I've followed Squirrel and Jeffrey. (I Any time you want to track information before you can fully verify that data. Instead, they create hypotheses, review all their flow metrics, and change several things at the same time. We don't have perfect data.

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Makarios Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We don’t need to track metrics to succeed as a business.” But we have worked with many leadership teams that acknowledged, “We don’t know what metrics to track to get meaningful insights so that we can make strategic, timely business decisions.” Put simply, data visibility enables business agility. Sales metrics.

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

Leaders are making strategic investments in data and technology , and they are 1.6x more likely to refresh critical marketing metrics and dashboards at least weekly. In our study, we highlight a great example of how Keurig analyzed purchase patterns based on two years of historical data to identify four customer segments.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 9, 2020

In the agile and lean communities, we talk a lot about transparency. This image is the transparency principle we used in From Chaos to Distributed Agile Teams. And, a much more agile organization. What do agile managers do? That includes any interim measures, including cycle time metrics. People Solve Problems.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

But since Tom’s boss was under pressure to meet a number of website metrics, she didn’t have the flexibility to implement his ideas. It’s not often possible to ignore performance metrics or overcome policies and bureaucratic red-tape. .” At first, Tom wasn’t deterred.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

They brought me in to help them stop this craziness, so I asked to see their data. See What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Now it was time to learn from their data. Learn from Defect Escapes Because they had pre- and post-customer release data, they expected to learn different things. And they did.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment. Digitally sustainable organizations are agile: They think fast, decide fast, execute fast, fail fast, learn fast, and scale fast. Discipline and Focus.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

This is one of the reasons Mark and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Your team might not need an agile approach. The place to gather team data. This includes the team's board and the team's metrics. Now, as I write this series, the coronavirus is winging its way around the globe.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

However, many are not equipped to confront the legion of new, more agile competitors—and run the danger of becoming the losers in that war. How Banks Are Capitalizing on a New Wave of Big Data and Analytics. Are your metrics set up to gauge whether the content you generate delivers the outcome the customer expects?

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Media Metrics Education Insurance 84

Johanna Rothman

APRIL 18, 2024

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for why this happens.) I discussed this a little in Aging Fun with Drunk Agile (Video) and in How to Assess the Value of Old Data and Its Effect on Aging.) That's why aging is a part of the flow metrics feedback loop on the top of this post.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 21, 2024

The first way to use an iteration contents chart is to gather data and answer questions. However, since the iteration contents chart can help the team see aggregate data, I've used it in two other ways since. One was help a different team see their multitasking data. See the flow metrics newsletter.) But I was wrong.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 4, 2024

And given the plethora of “agile” coaches, too many managers have relinquished their coaching roles to these (supposed) agilists. Second, the data changes every day. So if you're not starting the project tomorrow, the data you have today is useless when you decide. Instead, managers are supposed to coach people.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 27, 2025

Our project postmortem data concurs most teams struggle with complex, cross-functional, and high stakes initiatives. We know from change management simulation data that successful teams are built on a foundation of clearly defined roles that ensure efficiency, accountability, and collaboration. 27% more effective.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These forces encompass digitization, the adoption of data-centric business strategies, the ongoing recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, and more. Digital Agility: Technology enables greater adaptability in response to changing conditions, helping firms accelerate digital transformation and optimize various aspects of their operations.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We want more collaboration and smaller stories in any agile approach. Now, you have data. I might ask the team if that's okay, but I wouldn't stress until I had more data. In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I recommend against velocity or using story points. Add all the work times together.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies. The data represent something more than a new offering. a) Agility.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 22, 2018

Meta-analytic studies reviewing 50 years of research suggest that personality traits such as curiosity, extraversion, and emotional stability are twice as important as IQ — the benchmark metric for reasoning capability — when it comes to predicting leadership effectiveness. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI.

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1 to 1

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), Customer Effort Score (CES), and Net Promoter Score (NPS) metrics have long been invaluable tools in the industry, but it’s critical to recognize that these metrics on their own cannot improve customer experience. Be agile when uncovering reasons for customer churn. What is a CSAT rating?

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2023

Consider These Measures for Cultural Change After several conversations, Tim and I agreed that we would focus on the flow metrics, starting with leadership, not the teams. I wanted honest data, not data that the leader might fudge to get a better “grade.” Tim can still measure. That included the project portfolio.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? As companies move to more agile operating models , they must learn to balance accountability with autonomy. How do banks switch customer relationships from branch offices to mobile phone screens?

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