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. Some examples of relevant KPIs include: Revenue growth: Track changes in overall revenue or revenue per employee over time.

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Clarity Consultants

JUNE 30, 2023

Just take a look at the pandemic, for example. The more training you offer, the more efficient and effective employees are in a role. Retaining existing employees is far more cost-efficient than hiring and training new talent. Learning new skills and competencies is the bread and butter of a learning and development program.

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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. The most popular and widely used Agile methodology is Scrum. How an RM Solution Can Help Plan Sprints and Complete Work on Time: Example of Epicflow.

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Clarity Consultants

JANUARY 22, 2024

For example, it can identify whether a user is struggling with a particular subject and then steer the learner to additional materials that provide clarity. For example, after completing an initial assessment, AI tools can analyze the results to determine the learner’s current level of understanding.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. Can you create an agile culture for your team even if you can't change how the organization works?

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Epicflow

MARCH 19, 2024

The Epicflow team continues implementing the most powerful functionality to provide our clients with a variety of tools to juggle projects and resources most efficiently. In software development projects or any Agile environment, it’s typical to work with cross-functional teams consisting of employees with different roles (e.g.,

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. Team-based “agile” is not enough.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Successful change-agile leaders at all levels in the organization respond to changes in the business environment by seizing opportunities, including throwing out old models and developing new ways of doing business.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

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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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. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. Related Video.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency, where we focus on watching the work, not the people. If you and your team have been practicing real agility, you might say these ideas barely show any agility at all.

Agile 71

Agile Metrics Efficiency Culture 71

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The original signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development wanted to solve these specific problems: How can we: Bring more adaptability to software development? For example (books have affiliate Amazon links): Takeuchi and Nonaka published The New New Product Development Game in HBR in 1986. Feature-Driven development.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 21, 2022

For example, the application of the latest manufacturing technologies (e.g. So, automakers have to change their approaches to product development to make it shorter but no less efficient. . Nevertheless, automotive companies need to deliver their projects as successfully and efficiently as possible.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

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. These systems can suggest relevant products that customers are likely to enjoy.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Leveraging Cutting-Edge Technologies Under current conditions of economic turbulence, workforce shortage, and supply chain disruptions, manufacturing organizations should work towards increasing the efficiency of their operations, achieving business agility and resilience. Here are some of the examples. AdvancedTech.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

I discussed the origins of the agile approaches in Part 5. In this post, I'll discuss how you can create an agile approach that fits your context. Why should you create your own agile approach? You deserve an agile approach that helps you achieve the business outcomes you need. What do you need? Start with the Team.

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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. Here are some examples of how the solution helps CPOs in their work. What organizations require a CPO?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2018

We believe growth has been made unnecessarily complicated, so we’ve boiled it down to six simple categories with corresponding examples from Apple: New processes. Sell the same stuff at higher margins: Cut production and delivery costs, automate for efficiencies, cut fat in the supply chain or manufacturing, and utilize robots.

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Epicflow

MAY 31, 2022

It’s important for aerospace engineering, as it can introduce agile engineering to a company. Reducing production costs, Improving the quality of the final product, Shortening the product development time, Efficient collaboration of various specialists involved into the engineering process.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 10, 2020

If your team works in flow efficiency , as in Part 1, your team collaborates and learns from each other. And, when teams use flow efficiency, they see these benefits: One person doesn't act as a bottleneck for their function or expertise. This is any lifecycle, not just an agile approach.). Start by Working as a Team.

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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 teams used agile approaches, they requested more and more frequent deployments. A lot of the friction we see is anti-agility. For example, do you plan to have a shutdown for the Christmas period?”

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

See Schedule Game #11: The Schedule Tool is Always Right as an example.). I wrote a series about that, starting with Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics, Part 1.). They think the tool will do “everything” for them. I have nothing against tools. However, starting with a tool?

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Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

ompanies that invest enough in digital talent have three times higher chances for efficient transformation. The success of IT uplift is determined by the access to up-to-date tools, reduced maintenance costs, increased employee efficiency and satisfaction as well as better business performance. . Developing talent and skills . ?ompanies

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Successful project delivery is usually a result of efficient management of both workflow and resources. What do you need to know to manage project resources with maximum efficiency? What do you need to know to manage project resources with maximum efficiency? The results of efficient resource management are as follows: .

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

We reinforce a culture of resource efficiency. We reinforce a culture of flow efficiency. Flow efficiency can help create and reinforce a product culture.). For example, managers conduct one-on-ones as individuals with another person. If you want to move to an agile culture, start thinking in terms of teams.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2014

The book provides six principles that the author’s believe can make organisations more agile, competitive, and responsive by helping employees become more autonomous, cooperative and empowered. Here is a super summary of the six principles (some are more illuminating than others): Understand what other people do.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I think of spreadsheets as an unintentional, but prime example of this. “Agile” as a way to do much more work in much less time. (NO! Team learning time requires that the team —not just the managers—think in flow efficiency. This image has an anonymized example of what occurred with a developer.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2021

For example, if your manager has not maintained their one-on-ones with you? I like agile approaches because I can separate lots of deliverables into small, coherent pieces. For example, I deliver my blog posts. See the Flow Efficiency series.). In fact, agile approaches make this kind of culture possible.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Customer advocacy and employee engagement are inextricably linked in the examples Ton uses, allowing those companies to create a better customer experience, higher quality jobs and better financial outcomes for shareholders. Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

His ideas regarding remote work difficulties and how to handle them are based on his research of Agile software development, human resources, supply chain management, cognitive psychology, organizational behavior, and labor economics.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

In a nutshell, AI automates repetitive tasks and makes predictions thereby increasing efficiency, streamlining the workflow, and improving decision-making. As a rule, they combine the traditional structured framework and predictability of Waterfall methodology with the flexibility and customization of Agile principles.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

” is one of the questions I see when I work with people going through an agile transformation. Traditional measurements focus on resource efficiency instead of flow efficiency.) Resource efficiency measures don’t measure what the organization delivers or what prevents the organization from delivering.

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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. This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility. Assess Your Product Subject Matter Domain Expertise There are at least two kinds of domain expertise: the product itself, and agile/lean expertise.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Software is key to the efficiency of organizations in almost every industry. For example, if there was a power outage, the app could automatically inform a technician and send them a map of the fastest route to get to the relevant location. It is agile, stimulating, and there is plenty room for growth.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2017

The traditional approach is to put the person with the most experience and expertise in charge — for example, a head coach or a chief programmer. This approach is evident in, for example, agile software development methods. Thus the approach increases coordination demands and can reduce efficiency.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

This is a common example of risk theater.) Created Gantt charts even though the team worked in an agile way. The managers reinforce people as experts, which is an example of resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. He now pointed them to the done-and-not-released chart. See Knowing When You Release Value.)

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

More efficient utilization of resources. At the same time, it can be tempting to apply Agile with its flexibility, frequent value delivery, quick time to market, and intense interaction with clients. However, focusing solely on Agile has its pitfalls, e.g., a lack of long-term planning is one of the biggest ones.

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