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Discussing Teamwork and Measures on Agile for Humans

Johanna Rothman

Ryan Ripley interviewed me on his podcast, Agile for Humans 83 about Create Your Successful Agile Project. I didn’t stint on my opinions or on my experience with agile teams. The other opinion (based on my experience) was that of using ROI to predict which product, project, or feature a team should do first.

Agile 55
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Projects, Products, and the Project Portfolio: Part 2, Assess & Rank the Work

Johanna Rothman

I called the value stream a product so that people would think about who would use it and why. I suggested that we stop work on specific products when you have more products than teams. That would allow you to work on other projects in service of different products. I prefer Cost of Delay to either ROI or NPV.

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Why Minimize Management Decision Time

Johanna Rothman

.” In my experience, when organizations want to use agile approaches or transform in some way, the managers start with the teams. Agile approaches can help teams improve, and many teams do release value faster. On this project, the team looks ahead for the product strategy. I always estimate how long my books take.

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Clarify the Difference Between Outputs, Outcomes, and Benefits

Johanna Rothman

I gave examples of a variety of product-based outcomes in Consider Product Options with Minimum Outcomes. I publish a wide variety of blog posts and books about agility in all forms. In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I offered ways to rethink any given team's approach to agility. Which people learn?

Agile 71
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How Business Cases as Experiments Change the Project Portfolio Decisions

Johanna Rothman

So they ask the product or project leaders to write a business case for each effort. That's because the writer is supposed to include the estimates of time, cost, and ROI (return on investment). Depending on the product, an architectural leader: someone who has been thinking about the various design tradeoffs for the entire product.

ROI 93
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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies.

Apparel 82
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ERP Software for Project-Driven Organizations

Progressus

It doesn’t just offer data connectivity within your ERP system, but also within your productivity tools, e-commerce, and even customer engagement solutions. Ensure business agility. Also, with ERP, project-driven organizations companies receive a quicker ROI and cost-efficient use of the resources deployed.