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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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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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Product owners have many challenges: They need to keep at least two thoughts about the product: what it needs to be in the near future, and what the organization wants it to be in the (distant) future. But the biggest problem I see is this: Effective product owners belong to at least two teams and maybe more. Strategic work.)

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 28, 2019

You've got interdependencies across the organization for a given project or program to release a product. You need enough insight or prediction to start the marketing campaign or to create training videos or product documentation. You need some kind of milestone criteria so you know you can complete the entire product.

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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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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

One of the big problems I see with a product orientation (as opposed to a project) is in preparing for ongoing work. You might not start the next project for this product after you complete this project. However, if you want to develop a product orientation, you’ll need to consider the future. We call it technical debt.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2021

Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. As the organization changes (both products and tooling), people might not make those mistakes again. About a decade ago, an organization suffered three consecutive bad deployments to production.

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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. Every sprint delivers working product.” ” He said, “We'll deliver documents after each phase.”

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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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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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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

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 requirements people (often a product manager maybe with a BA) rarely collaborated either with the customer or with the team.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover, and the loss of the most capable talent. In our book Time, Talent and Energy , we note that when employees aren’t as productive as they could be, it’s usually the organization, not its employees, that is to blame.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

In addition, a product leader might approve the feature. Finally, the team, a product leader, or the customer(!) But if you are similar to one of my long-ago clients, they could plan on too many defect escapes every time they released another version of the product. See What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context?

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

” and still have a great product. Not to release a bad product. No, to release a smaller product. In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I ask the question: How little can we do to satisfy our needs? See my series about the agile roadmaps to see how that might work in practice. See Who’s the Boss?

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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

JULY 19, 2017

Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Now, these things are crucial to boosting business agility and enabling “citizen developers.” Workers will always look for tools, processes, and approaches to improve efficiency and productivity. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. Augmentation.

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Chad Barr

APRIL 23, 2025

From there, I asked it to format the results into a clean Word document table. In seconds, it generated 120 unique and deeply relevant content topics tailored to the exact concerns, hopes, and decision points of my audience.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images. Core Competencies.

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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. Flexible access to computing resources allows small firms to scale-up (or down) rapidly and to experiment with new products and features.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

If you took an agile workshop sometime in the past 15 years, you probably played the “ ball game.” Especially since they've probably suffered through way too many “agile” workshops with more and more games. I don't care what it is, as long as everyone has equal and easy access to that board/document.)

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Agile software development is a set of principles and practices that aim to improve the effectiveness of software development. Although agile software development promises to reduce costs and boost creativity, the reliability and consistency of a consulting service could be negatively affected.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

trillion per year; and (3) store-based retailers could profitably transition to a digital world by growing e-commerce sales cautiously enough to avoid diluting earnings and cannibalizing higher-margin store sales, while retreating to the most profitable stores and product categories that would be hardest for Amazon to attack.

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Retail Agile Sales Engineering 72

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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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 15, 2020

The more we want an agile organization that might be able to bounce forward , the more we need to create an environment of thinking and trust. Relieved, I presented the signed-off document to my VP and then asked this question: “Why didn't you trust me to do what's right?” I no longer remember what that was.).

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 4, 2020

Agility is guaranteed when companies use cloud computing services. As long as employees have access to the Internet, they can work, collaborate and be productive. Cloud services enable greater visibility and collaboration by providing one version of a document (e.g. Increased collaboration . Monday.com) and file sharing (e.g.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

Is it possible to balance the product innovation and feedback we need, with the commitment our management wants? How about when it does make sense to create small or larger estimates for the product? How about when it does make sense to create small or larger estimates for the product? It all depends on your product.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

One major Asian electronics company built a design lab to develop new hardware product ideas. When sales of the Frankenstein product missed their mark, everyone shared the blame. Explorers work in teams like R&D, customer insights, or product development. They didn’t have a handoff, they had a drop-off.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

These firms have generally seen an increase in productivity and efficiency in their contracting. While software for legal document review has existed for years, it typically only helps companies store and organize their contracts. Contracting software that uses AI raises the bar for what these tools can accomplish.

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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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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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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

For example, product managers are learning to write their own SQL code and interpret their own experiments about whether to launch a new product feature in a certain city. One tool they use is People World, an AI platform able to mine thousands of consumer research documents and social media data.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 27, 2025

Understanding and maximizing these roles helps leaders assemble well-balanced teams that maximize productivity and innovation. If no collective work product beyond the sum of their independent tasks and accomplishments is required for success, then being a working group is sufficient. Working Groups Not all tasks, however, need a team.

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How To Talent Agile Efficiency 60

Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

When a large automotive company shifted its organization model from a product center-of-gravity to a customer-centric model, its leaders initially believed the matrixed tensions were unnecessary complexity and associated tension with “failure.” 1 Networked, Scaled, and Agile. Amy Kates, Greg Kesler, Michele DiMartino.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

A recent study documented how incivility diminishes collaboration and performance in medical settings. A study of cross-functional product teams revealed that when leaders treated members of their team well and fairly, the team members were more productive individually and as a team. Leaders set the tone.

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