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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.

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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. If you want to create an agile culture, start with the managers. I always estimate how long my books take.

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Clarify the Difference Between Outputs, Outcomes, and Benefits

Johanna Rothman

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. That's why I hate the idea of ROI for any kind of product. We can only offer the outcome to derive the benefit. Substantial.

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Progress Instead of Perfection With a Single Source of Lies

Johanna Rothman

Ever since I was on the Troubleshooting Agile podcast , I've followed Squirrel and Jeffrey. (I Too often, we can't calculate the real ROI for at least a year post-release. I highly recommend their podcast.) Recently, Squirrel posted something fascinating on LinkedIn: Aim for a “single source of lies” about your business.

ROI 69
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Projects, Products, and the Project Portfolio: Part 2, Assess & Rank the Work

Johanna Rothman

I prefer Cost of Delay to either ROI or NPV. This is where taking an agile approach to the projects can really help your project portfolio decisions. Until they pay off their accumulated decision-debt, they can't move forward with an agile approach. See Cost of Delay: Why You Should Care, Part 6.)

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How Business Cases as Experiments Change the Project Portfolio Decisions

Johanna Rothman

That's because the writer is supposed to include the estimates of time, cost, and ROI (return on investment). Notice this has nothing to do with predictions of time, cost, or ROI. The clients claim this information helps them decide which work to do and not do. However, everyone knows each business case is at least partially fiction.

ROI 93
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ERP Software for Project-Driven Organizations

Progressus

Ensure business agility. Also, with ERP, project-driven organizations companies receive a quicker ROI and cost-efficient use of the resources deployed. It has the best ROI in the business – a recent Forrester study shows that organizations typically experience 162% ROI with Dynamics 365 Business Central over a three-year period.