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Effective Agility: Three Suggestions to Change How You and Your Team Work, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for more information. This can work well if you demo something at least monthly once you start writing code and tests. Tip 3: Demo Something Monthly (At a Minimum) The more your project demos your progress, the more other people—especially managers—will trust you.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

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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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( Here are some examples: Demos, even of partially working product. It might not be a customer-worthy demo, but it's a demo of a sort.). You don't need too many metrics if you can see visible progress.

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Unemployed Agilists: How to Increase Your Value to Get a Great Job, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

However, hiring managers expect deep agile expertise that connect to the Pirate metrics. Here are some ideas that might relate your agile experience and expertise to value: How you've used the flow metrics while supporting a project and/or the managers. That idea of inspect and adapt based on learning.) That add little to no value.

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Low Tech Way to Visualize Your Percentile Confidence for Forecasts

Johanna Rothman

He pointed me to this slideshare: Lightweight Kanban Metrics (in German). Regardless of how your team works, you can demo something inside of a week or two. The post Low Tech Way to Visualize Your Percentile Confidence for Forecasts appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. Don't worry about the language.)

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Consultant Marketing Discovery Meeting

Jerry Fletcher

In most cases the answer will be that some metric in the sales equation is off. That, unless deeper problems or concerns surface, is the essence of the third tier proposal which makes the consultant a member of the team on an ongoing basis. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. Consulting: [link] Speaking: [link].

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Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1

Johanna Rothman

When I work with these teams or their managers, I realize they're not demoing or retrospecting on a regular basis. The Series Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 The post Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. I can't get anything done.

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