Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? For nearly two decades, many companies have utilized the principles within the Agile Manifesto to deliver faster time-to-market than traditional, or linear development models. Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

And even if you can find an agile coaching or Scrum Master job, the pay is so terrible, you don’t want to take it. That’s because these managers think agile coaching and Scrum Mastering is a staff job, not a line job. Tools and technology: Operating systems, languages, anything specifically technical.

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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. As we’ve noted above, a CPO should be proficient in leveraging software tools. What organizations require a CPO?

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 16, 2019

I suggested ways to think about more agile budgeting in part 1. Your budget is a tool, not a hammer that drives you to do crazy things. (I Also, see From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. We might also have capital expenses so the distributed people have sufficient infrastructure and tools.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

Project managers can utilize the power of AI by leveraging project/resource management tools where the technology is incorporated. 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.

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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. A modern Product PM tool should have the following capabilities: What-if simulation using predictive analytics; .

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( See Agile Program Measurements to Visualize and Track Progress and Measure Cycle Time for my suggestions of what to measure. I have more ideas and a more in-depth discussion in Create Your Successful Agile Project.).

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 24, 2024

The agile project manager asks, “What percentage confidence are you comfortable with for a given item? If your tool calculates cycle time, use that. Here's how to do the cycle time calculation if you have a lot of data and no tool: The formula is End Date minus Start Date. If you want a 50% confidence, that's about a week.

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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. What Tools Does Your Team Need in its Workspace? Mark and I listed these tools for the team's workspace in the book: The code repository. ” They are resilient for location.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

The metrics also changed. This program gives employees across all disciplines and levels tools to educate them on the company, its culture, products and services, and how they solve its customer’s needs. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. The results?

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

Transforming a relatively simple idea into a $19 billion windfall, it turns out, was more about solving problems with the tools at hand than inventing new solutions from scratch. By tracking a metric, they can sell optimized wait times (elevators as a service) rather than banks of elevators based on price. Insight Center.

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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. Agility and scale rarely co-exist in the design of the organizational operating model. So why is it so hard to create networked, agile teams in large, global product companies? Common methods and tools.

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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.) We can file all those ideas into an electronic tool. That's because they have an already overstuffed backlog.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

Having a well-implemented data strategy can provide your organization with the tools to effectively monitor and measure progress toward its goals , identify areas that require improvement, and optimize its decision-making. The good news is that there's a tool that can help predict the future and make better choices: scenario planning.

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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. Why IoT Analytics Are a Manufacturer’s Most Important Tool. 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 82

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

I wrote about this problem as a schedule game, “ The Schedule Tool is Always Right. That's why I wrote Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. ) See Dependencies Tools or Gantt Charts rarely (if ever) show you the real dependencies. As for the date? That increases WIP.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Large enterprises have been responding to these developments for some time, mainly by applying the methods of startups such as lean experimentation, design thinking, and agile development. But this mantra misses the point entirely: Failure isn’t something to be aimed for or celebrated; it’s a tool for getting to the truth.

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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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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( See Agile Program Measurements to Visualize and Track Progress and Measure Cycle Time for my suggestions of what to measure. I have more ideas and a more in-depth discussion in Create Your Successful Agile Project.).

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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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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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Progressus

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Digital Agility: Technology enables greater adaptability in response to changing conditions, helping firms accelerate digital transformation and optimize various aspects of their operations. AI aids in talent sourcing, while cloud-based collaboration tools expand hiring possibilities.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 20, 2018

Given the stock market was buying “the story and vision” of anything internet, inflated expectations were more important than traditional metrics like customers, growth, revenue, or, heaven forbid, profits. Yet while we had plenty of tools for execution, we had none for search. So we built them. The result? Seize the Cash.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

As an example, the CEO had been discussing the importance of driving more agile decision making. The language of finance and accountability has become a bit intoxicating, given the tools that marketers have today that we didn’t have 20+ years ago. And they have significantly more impact.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. And we believe that the HR practitioner has an important role in leading this work. An Example.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2023

We have plenty of tools and opportunities to measure what's easy. 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. See Why Minimize Management Decision Time.) Measuring the outcomes we need? Tim can still measure.

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Comatch

MARCH 22, 2022

However, there are very few metrics to really measure this. And the available metrics, at least on a company level, are not very forward-looking for decision-makers or people who want to invest. Arcturus has the advantage of being agile and, acting in a focused way, can innovate quickly.

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

more likely to refresh critical marketing metrics and dashboards at least weekly. Whether it’s a larger enterprise or a new brand, our research found that being agile and working across business silos is key for marketers to find and engage the right audience and motivate them to action. Beaudin: No. Size doesn’t matter.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

And they point the way toward more effective behaviors and attitudes, and guide the use of appropriate practices, tools, and techniques aligned with the business’s needs and challenges. In today’s business environment, strategy planning cycles must be more rapid, dynamic, and agile than in the past.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Exploratory research using design thinking’s ethnographic tool kit helps define the jobs that key stakeholders, patients, caregivers and partners, want or need done. At the end of the program these metrics were then correlated to observed changes in health management behavior (for example, compliance with prescriptions).

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Personality Traits, Motivation, Learning Agility, and Potential Done right, the proper assessment of leadership competencies and related micro-behaviors tells you about current capabilities. To assess potential, you must use assess specific personality traits, motivation , and learning agility.

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LSA Global

MAY 16, 2024

Provide them with the tools, resources, and authority they need to drive change initiatives forward and support their teams through the transition. Can your leaders encourage the agile mindsets at work required to successfully navigate change ? Are your leaders consistently and visibly walking the talk?

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

A powerful tool in this process is the people manager assessment center — an immersive, hands-on evaluation process that helps organizations identify, develop, and promote the right talent to lead, manage, and coach their teams. Last year, the EEOC reported total claims paid out by employers were over $300 million. businesses in the 1950s.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Defining and tracking success metrics. That said, having a basic technical understanding of what is “under the hood” and mastery of the tools that PMs use is definitely important for the role, anywhere. The art of resource allocation (it is not a science!). Performing market assessments. Pricing and revenue modeling.

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1 to 1

APRIL 21, 2022

The key to an omnichannel approach is giving the support team access to customer data and metrics across any channel. In addition to making customers happy, an omnichannel contact center adds value by centralizing data and tools under one system, which reduces resolution time while increasing efficiency and savings.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. Businesses are increasingly embracing tools that allow them to adapt to changing conditions. Firms are also able to source talent with some help from AI solutions, while cloud-based collaboration tools mean they’re not limited to hiring local candidates.

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