Jerry Fletcher

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

I was zooming today with the founder of an organization using Mighty Networks as the software they use to manage their expanding community. Here’s how I stay connected and still manage to keep my business thriving: I plan my weeks to assure blocks of time for clients. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. Lots of content.

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Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

After that, they are given access to a simple demo environment with a standard set of configurations, where they can test how our system works. If your company uses other project management tools like Jira, MS Project, or Oracle Primavera, the demo environment will be adjusted accordingly. Data adjustment and integration.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Many managers feel pressure to deliver finished work. The managers don't think they need to use data to replan frequently, to address what's happening. The managers plan for the teams, not with the teams. Worse, the managers don't deliver that finished work—the teams do. Reasons Managers Plan. Assess risks.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Beau approached us a few months ago to ask about breaking into consulting. He had the epiphany that consulting was his calling in life, and went searching for details – finding MC in the process. We’ve got your resume to go through, and as I gather you have a whole bunch of questions about consulting. Is that right?

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Jerry Fletcher

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

I always tell clients to ask how their customers and clients want to be contacted and note that information in their file in the CRM (Contact Relationship Management software) and then use that information regularly. Fact is that the higher the level of management you are trying to contact the more powerful an all-text message can be.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

My interest in consulting began at university , before then I was certain I would become a diplomat. My personal experience as a graduate and now working for a consulting firm shows that you can build upon your initial college experience to launch a successful consulting career. Join a consulting club.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 22, 2023

Since I also write for project, program, and portfolio managers, you might not choose to read this post. Writers often need a different approach to manage everyone's expectations. How to Write for Secondary Readers Polly, a program manager, works with her program team to solve a cross-program problem: status reporting.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2021

I suspected I would learn about engagement with my next questions about management patterns. Management Patterns That Might Cause a Team to Miss “Deadlines” I find two general buckets of problems for missing deadlines: how management organizes teams and the “need” for certain measures. And remotely!)

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 2024

In my experience, this might require a facilitative project manager who acts as the “Wall Around the Team,” protecting the team from external mayhem. See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for more information. If you can demo something valuable every day, no one will ask for an estimate or prediction.

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Jerry Fletcher

MARCH 27, 2021

For the majority of consultants who are solopreneurs the only chance they have is when they are comfortably esconced in bed with that special person. The loner brain dump This occurs when an expert consultant happens to be a solo in her/his practice, home life and social life. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. If you’re lucky.

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Women in Consulting

JANUARY 11, 2018

:: Recently I had the opportunity to make a presentation to a small group of consultants; a couple of them worked for Chevron-Texaco. They had just completed a screening process for a multi-million consulting project. 2) Second set of consultants eliminated were CONTENT or FACT CENTERED …they knew everything about everything.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2022

I only wrote those business cases for the first couple of years I managed projects. Because experiments manage risk, we need people with these perspectives to create the experiments: A product leader: someone who can see where the company wants to head with this product. Does that mean the portfolio team should watch the demos?

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2022

Not the thinking and learning that go into the deliverables where you end up with something demo-able, if not usable.” However, they don't deliver value, have team-based planning, a review/demo, or a retrospective. For example, I used month-long iterations for most of the projects and programs I managed up until about 2003 or so.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2021

The first was not waiting for the end of an iteration to demo or release. They demo'd every week on Wednesday mornings and then they released after the demo. They want to “capture” users from their first checking accounts to wealth management and wealth transfer. The managers like the quarterly planning.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Worse, sometimes the team doesn't demo or deliver. See Manage Unplanned Feedback Loops to Reduce Risks and Create Successful Products.) Please register at Project Lifecycle Workshop: How to Manage Project Risks to Release Successful Products. Because no one cares until they deliver “all” of it. (An

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Markovitz Consulting

APRIL 23, 2018

Jonathan Jasper, manager of cabin safety at the International Air Transport Association, said “We were surprised when we saw the pictures [of passengers incorrectly putting on the masks].” As one passenger on the flight explained, That 30-second demo of how to put the mask on properly is such an insignificant portion of most of our lives.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 24, 2022

No one wants to demo this work, because everyone thinks the demo will wander all over the place. Worse, no one wants to demo, because they can't see the value for any user. Use the Demo to Guide Sizing. Use the Demo to Guide Sizing. Start with the demo in mind. I bet you can think of more tests.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The spiral model assumes that if you get feedback early enough, you've managed the technical and requirements risks. I had to explain to my managers how the project would work. My managers were smart but didn't understand how to spiral time. Once our customers saw demos, they wanted to change things. Manage customer risk.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 5, 2021

Many managers want to know the answers to these questions: When will we see the first bit? ” Many managers now realize they don't have to see everything to get an idea of where the team is going with the product. Your team manages its WIP. Regardless of how your team works, you can demo something inside of a week or two.

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Jerry Fletcher

MARCH 13, 2021

If you’re a manager that means both the management team you are a part of and your direct reports. Not a manager? Tony had the staff rate managers on six different trust factors. He found that where managers were rated highest the increase in revenue was $250,000 a year. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 10, 2024

When I work with these teams or their managers, I realize they're not demoing or retrospecting on a regular basis. The managers worry that the teams can't finish “anything on time.” Since they collaborate, they can often manage their WIP, too.) That creates distrust and an anti-agile culture.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

” It depends on how your lifecycle manages feedback loops and learning, how collaborative the team is, and how much WIP the team has. Each Lifecycle Manages Feedback Loops Differently Brooks wrote the original version of The Mythical Man-Month in 1975, based on the 1960s IBM 360 project. .” Brooks also said on p.

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Jerry Fletcher

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Marketing Consultant/Start up Consultant. I came onboard because he wanted a marketing consultant. Very quickly I turned into a start-up consultant. Video: POV product demo once with deflection once corrected. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel. Consulting: [link] Speaking: [link] m. Putter strokes ball.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 3, 2020

You might need to manage your delivery risks before you can manage to free time for the discovery risks. Managers: please measure your decision cycle time as in Long Decision Wait Times and Unearth Your Project's Delays. You can use that data to manage your discovery risks. Delivery Focuses on Technical Risks.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In the olden days, the project manager with the help of the team ranked.) See and demo the product as it grows. Manage the project portfolio more easily because the project releases value more often. Part 3, Incremental Lifecycles appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. Part 6: Lifecycle Summary.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

That's why Part 1 of this series discusses your value and what managers want and need. That part discusses why managers see agile coaches and Scrum Masters as staff positions, not line jobs. However, hiring managers expect deep agile expertise that connect to the Pirate metrics. There way too many of you.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 28, 2018

I mentioned how you could integrate the demo work into an iteration if you create a column for the demo. Here’s a picture of how you might create a kanban with a Demo state, just before the Done column. Here’s how you walk this board: Start at the column just before Done, the Demo column.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 11, 2019

I spoke with a project manager recently. I used to facilitate project teams as a project manager. Why a project manager? When I learned to manage programs, I managed programs like that, too. Then, we went “all-Scrum” so my managers called me a Scrum Master. Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager?

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 28, 2019

And, someone on your team keeps a Gantt chart because a manager wants to see the team's progress in a form they feel comfortable with. If you're in this pickle, your manager might think your agile team doesn't replan very often. That manager might assume your team uses an agile approach only as a way to deliver.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 18, 2021

Management can't hire people for the same salaries they used to pay.). Or, that while managers might want people “back” in the office, not everyone wants to work in an office. Worst of all, too many managers still want to micromanage people—and that's more difficult when people aren't in the office.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2021

This image shows a 6-person team where the leader/manager micromanages. Some managers want to stay “relevant,” so they work on the technical work. Other managers ask for status every day or multiple times a day. Worse, the manager attends the standup! All decisions go through that person in the middle.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 25, 2023

I also said I don't blame the managers for wanting to know. But instead of placating the managers and trying to estimate, consider starting with this question: How do you plan to use this information? Now, we get to the meat, where the manager needs to know to feel good about the development. I needed to demo more often.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 7, 2019

They have to manage extra work—work they had not estimated—in the form of an emergency or production support. One of the managers I coached asked this question, “Is there any way to estimate ‘right' for two weeks at a time? I like a cadence of planning, demos, and retrospectives. And, the PO's manager.

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Jerry Fletcher

APRIL 10, 2021

Doc Robbins the slightly shifty manager is portrayed by Joe Pantiliano. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. His consulting practice, founded in 1990, is known for on and off-line Trust-based Consultant Marketing advice that builds businesses, brands and lives of joy. Consulting: [link] Speaking: [link].

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I explain the activity in this way: Your managers wanted you to fix this problem yesterday. Show a demo of whatever you complete at the 15-minute mark. The timing: I use a 15-minute timebox, followed by not more than 5 minutes of a demo. The observer(s) notes how the team works: How does the team manage their work?

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Jerry Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

My expectation from the run-up back and forth with various staff members was that this would be a well-managed professional event. I’m a Master of Consultant Marketing. I’ve been doing it since1990 and stopped counting successful new product introductions at 207 and individual branding for consultants at 147 at last count.

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Jerry Fletcher

APRIL 24, 2021

Scientists have found 8 management behaviors that use Oxytocin balance to make people more productive. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. His consulting practice, founded in 1990, is known for on and off-line Trust-based Consultant Marketing advice that builds businesses, brands and lives of joy.

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