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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Jerry Fletcher

JULY 31, 2021

The subject was 30-Second Marketing (6 minute video) I presented at meeting of the local chapter of the Institute of Management Consultants. Since then I’ve been a consultant for your company and you’ve referred me to other profitable business and even one company you had invested in, why does that speech stand out in your mind?”.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Are you a manager accustomed to Management by Walking Around and Listening (MBWAL) ? You have an opportunity to work differently as a manager. As a manager, you can ask teams to collaborate. As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. (

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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

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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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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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

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 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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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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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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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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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

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

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

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Change is the heart of consulting. I’ve come to the conclusion that Contact Relationship Management is no longer an arena I want to work in. Management doesn’t understand it and more importantly does not understand that tasking sales-people with upkeep is a losing proposition. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel.

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ConsultX

OCTOBER 20, 2022

When we say ConsultX is a world leading online Business Consulting Software, we mean it. Business Consultants, Coaches and Advisors around the world have been using our Business Consulting Software to acquire clients and help grow their clients’ business for over 17 years. ask Create Compelling Consulting Proposals.

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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

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

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 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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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

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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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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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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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

” There's more in Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management.) In addition, I ask teams to show visual progress , such as in a demo. I want architecture feedback loops as early as possible in the project, which is why I want visual progress with demos. What if you have no visual progress yet ?

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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

MARCH 6, 2024

They are: Understand the various risks: project, product, and organization, and how to manage those risks with feedback loops. Let's start with risks and how feedback loops manage those risks. The faster your team, customers, or managers need feedback, the more you need an iterative and incremental approach. 1,2 and so on.

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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

JULY 27, 2023

might demo the feature. That defect escaped all your checklists, approvals, and demos. At first, management told them they were “too slow.” Not all the managers agreed with me, but that was okay. Finally, the team, a product leader, or the customer(!) The customer finds a problem, a defect.

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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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ConsultX

MARCH 1, 2022

Our Consultants are meeting with Business Owners around the world every day. The early versions of our proprietary calculator were built using an excel spreadsheet and used by more than 150 Consultants in Europe, The UK, and Australasia. Check out a demo of the ConsultX System, including the Profit Leakage Calculator.

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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

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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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 25, 2018

A demo once every two weeks. (I I prefer a demo every time you release a story, but that’s me. If you use kanban, you might integrate a demo into the board. The last column on the right is the Demo column before Done. No demo meetings necessary. ” Could be. Especially if you use iterations.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

They (the team) feel that the tasks for the sprint are too varied to manage to a single sprint goal. When I work with managers, they think the “master” part of the Scrum Master title means the SM is supposed to control the team. And these managers have not read the Scrum Guide. When was the most recent demo?

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