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With Agile Approaches, No Need to “Meet” or “Enforce” Deadlines

Johanna Rothman

He thought agile approaches would work to “meet” and “enforce” deadlines. The company had deadlines because it wanted to meet market demands. Even when we use a non-agile approach , schedule variance doesn't make sense. Over months, they stopped demoing anything. Why do you have deadlines?

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Agile Milestone Criteria for Projects and Programs

Johanna Rothman

You can see demos. You need enough insight or prediction to start the marketing campaign or to create training videos or product documentation. Agile and Lean Program Management , and in Create Your Successful Agile Project. You might not have a product without documentation tutorials or marketing.

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 5: Summary

Johanna Rothman

I started asking if you actually need an agile approach in Part 1 and noted the 4 big problems I see. Part 2 was why we need managers in an agile transformation. Part 4 was about how “Agile” is meaningless and “agile” is an adjective that needs to be applied to something. That would be resilient.

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When Writing Has Two Focuses: Invite Ideal Readers to Change and Assure Secondary Readers

Johanna Rothman

Her ideal readers are the teams doing the work, so they can change their demos and reporting frequency. Now that we are close, Sales, Training, Marketing all need much more detail and information about how to use Nova and when they can expect it. As a company, we need more demos and more data. Was Polly a little snarky?

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Consultant Marketing Brand Disruption

Jerry Fletcher

Innovation, agility and the ability to think laterally can overcome the economy, the pandemic and the general funk in the populace at the moment. If you figure out that your brand is packaged for the wrong market, fix that and get market buy in then you have yourself a winner. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel.

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How to Measure and Prevent Defect Escapes in Any Project

Johanna Rothman

might demo the feature. That defect escaped all your checklists, approvals, and demos. See What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? From their pre-customer release defect escape data, they learned: The requirements document was out of date almost as soon as the marketing people had completed it. And they did.

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How to Steer the Conversation When Someone Asks for a Specific Backlog Item Prediction, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

” That's a backlog/marketing/sales problem. I needed to demo more often. This is the same problem as in Want to Be More Effective (and Agile)? The demos build trust—and might offer the team feedback on the product and the product leader feedback on the backlog. “I just want to know. ” Aha!

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