Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Companies rely on Learning & Development (L&D) programs – especially eLearning – to stay competitive as industries change. However, the actual value of these learning and development programs lies not just in their immediate impact but in their long-term effects on business performance driven by employee learning.

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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. In addition, changing requirements are commonplace for research and development projects. Will the developed product satisfy customers and be relevant in the market?

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 27, 2019

A colleague asked me about the kinds of documentation the team might need for their stories. How little could they do for requirements documentation? I start with the pattern of Card, Conversation, Confirmation when I think about requirements and how much documentation. for ways to use lifecycles other than waterfall or agile.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. They keep customers happier.

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Steve Shu Consulting

MAY 4, 2018

Individual consultants and engagement managers usually develop their own ways of organizing information. Develop interview guides according to the problem solving structure and conduct interviews with the interview guides in mind. This post is based on a question posed to me on Quora.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. The tactics are clear, well-documented, and offered up in a myriad of flavors. A Quick Introduction to Agile Management. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2022

A colleague unfamiliar with lifecycles or agility asked, “How can we use sprints in this approach?” ” and pointed to a phase-gate approach with documentation deliverables after each phase. ” He said, “We'll deliver documents after each phase.” It's not a long document.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

That part discusses why managers see agile coaches and Scrum Masters as staff positions, not line jobs. I assume you have some sort of functional product development expertise. If not, why are you in technical product development? This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Orchestration, APIs, and the citizen developer. Architects and developers have been talking about APIs and orchestration for decades. Now, these things are crucial to boosting business agility and enabling “citizen developers.”

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Trends Enterprise Intellectual Property Agile 109

Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

That's because they knew the customers would find problems the development teams had not found. But the development teams? That's because the development teams worked by phase, not by feature. See What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? And I'm the only developer on this product! And they did.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The action learning leadership development program results were: 92.4% To design an impactful leadership development program we took the following 5-step approach: I. Reviewed current development success profiles, agreed upon leadership competencies , and relevant strategy documentation. Improving situational agility.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Once clear goals and terms of engagement are established, the consultants can then get the greenlight to develop the solution. Agile software development is a set of principles and practices that aim to improve the effectiveness of software development. It is agile, stimulating, and there is plenty room for growth.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Yet they are often masks for deeper feelings that we could and should describe in more nuanced and precise ways, so that we develop greater levels of emotional agility , a critical capability that enables us to interact more successfully with ourselves and the world (more on emotional agility in my new book of the same name, available here ).

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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. You might not like these ideas.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

The costs of context switching are well documented : switching to a new task while still in the middle of another increases the time it takes you to finish both tasks by 25%. For example, by adopting agile principles, leaders can motivate and energize teams, and give individual team members a way to own the results.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. Change Documentation Develop and implement a standard set of training modules on key skills-based aspects of the new way of working.

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Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

Documentation of the results obtained. Document the findings, observations, and lessons learned from the POC process. Flexibility : Epicflow is applicable to any project management methodology you stick to, including Agile. We then give this valuable feedback to the Epicflow team to create future development plans.

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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 team’s project workspace so the team can put project documents in one specific place. The developers were in New York, the testers in Vietnam. The place to gather team data.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

That means retailers must learn to compete head-on with Amazon in two fundamental capabilities: agile innovation and expense management. Back in 2005, Amazon Prime was conceived, developed, and launched in about two months. Agile innovation teams are small. A Quick Introduction to Agile Management.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

However, if you want to develop a product orientation, you’ll need to consider the future. You might need a different definition of internal quality for what the product developers (developers, testers, UI, everyone who creates the product) see. Because that’s what most product developers do all day.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

But recent technological developments like artificial intelligence (AI) are now helping companies overcome many of the challenges to contracting. While software for legal document review has existed for years, it typically only helps companies store and organize their contracts. Indeed, Professor Gillian K.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Yes, the premise of my Agile and Lean Program Management book.) I have never seen those three conditions in any non-agile project, but that could be my experience and not universal. That's why many people were interested in the ratio of developers to testers back then. The tester is involved from the start of the project.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Development is essential for leaders to thrive in today's turbulent marketplace. Its uses in companies range from development and performance management to decision-making purposes such as compensation, promotions, and even downsizing initiatives. Leadership & organization Development Journal, 23(4), 205-214. principle.

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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. A roadmap is crucial for visualizing a product’s strategy that is aligned with your business goals, while incorporating customer insights for future developments. Why do you need a product roadmap? BeHealthy Inc.,

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 4, 2020

Agility is guaranteed when companies use cloud computing services. Cloud services enable greater visibility and collaboration by providing one version of a document (e.g. Cloud services can help you accomplish that because it allows companies to implement rich features without having to develop it. Increased collaboration .

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 8, 2019

I started this series with the question: If we have teams for all other aspects of an agile approach, why wouldn't we want the product owner to also work as part of a team? the PRD (Product Requirements Document) to the team. Iterative, Incremental, and Agile Approaches Reduce the Feedback Loop Durations.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Most teams (55 teams comprised of 700+ senior executives) also responded to items focused on organization performance —comparing themselves to industry peers — and included dimensions such as Sales and Revenue Growth, New Product Development, and Market Share. We were wrong. They don’t just take risks, however.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

This applies to all parts of the organization from marketing and business development to HR. One tool they use is People World, an AI platform able to mine thousands of consumer research documents and social media data. Corporate AI units often develop dashboards for senior executives which are used by them exclusively.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Here's my speaking bio, in specific lines, so you can see how I use that template: Johanna, known as the Pragmatic Manager, offers frank advice for your product development challenges. She works with individuals, teams, and leaders across the organization to resolve risks and see alternatives for their product development.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

What if you can complete a feature set in a couple of weeks, and really have it be done, build and test automation, and any user documentation or internal documentation complete? See Create Your Successful Agile Project for how to use cycle time to reduce the time you spend on estimation.). I high-five you.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 27, 2025

The Impact of Clear Team Roles and Responsibilities We know from action learning leadership development programs that even the best teams can fall victim to role-related mistakes. Encourage open communication and change agility to ensure seamless coordination between different roles and functions.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

A recent study documented how incivility diminishes collaboration and performance in medical settings. As a mathematical model developed by Yale psychologists Adam Bear and David Rand shows , people who are typically surrounded by jerks learn intuitively to be selfish and to not deliberate over their actions.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. If the best PMs have well developed core competencies and a high EQ, does that mean that they are then destined for success no matter where they work?

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

When I developed this multitasking talk, I used this title: Stop the madness. Here are the options I originally developed for the multitasking talk: Say Yes—or Say No? Put that title into another document. Save and close that document. Add the title to your document with all the information. You love it.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2017

When freelancing is your primary source of income, you have to be meticulous and organized about keeping your books, according to Jon Younger, the founder of the Agile Talent Collaborative , a non-profit research organization and the coauthor of Agile Talent. “It is a critical aspect of your reputation.”

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