Jerry Fletcher

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

I had attended a conference on gamifying products in the fall before Covid struck. Somehow we got on the subject of getting through to officials in companies in order to sell our products in the corporate market. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. Consulting: [link] Speaking: [link]. A Mastermind. Getting Through.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2022

So they ask the product or project leaders to write a business case for each effort. 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. Regardless of the product results for that experiment.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In this part, I’ll discuss an option for a product-oriented organization. Consider a Product-Oriented Organization. Instead of organizing by function, consider a product-oriented organization. Again, I am not saying this is the only way a product organization would look, but this is a possibility. What do you do?

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2021

I asked Brad these questions: Do you have product or feature teams that are cross-functional and can release alone? ( Component teams create interdependencies and take much more time to finish work.). Does each team focus on just one product at a time? Schedule Variance Does Not Make Sense for Software Products.

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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

AUGUST 19, 2021

Example 1: Startup/Small Organization with Few Products. They offer their product in two versions: Pro and Lite. 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. Let's start with a couple of examples. Others mob.

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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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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

High Need for Product Innovation and Change. The more need for product innovation and change, the shorter the feedback loops need to be. When the product requires much innovation and change, management doesn't need estimates. When management sees the product direction, they can say, “Stop with this and continue with that.”

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Maybe you want to use this project as a way to integrate a team into a new product or a new domain. Or, you might only need informal demos to show people where you are. Anything else about the current product that affects your solution. You might show other people internal demos. You'd like to experiment.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2022

Every sprint delivers working product.” Not the thinking and learning that go into the deliverables where you end up with something demo-able, if not usable.” They do have product goals. However, they don't deliver value, have team-based planning, a review/demo, or a retrospective. ” “Oooh.”

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2020

In Costs of an Agile Approach for Hardware Products , I suggested that an iteration-based approach for hardware was too expensive. Most of the hardware teams I've worked with (inside an organization and as a consultant) have fewer people. Those people work independently until they need to verify the product as a whole, works.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. The better the team learns together, the better the product is. See Product Orientation Requires Technical Excellence ).

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I have a new book: Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. Worse, sometimes the team doesn't demo or deliver. See Manage Unplanned Feedback Loops to Reduce Risks and Create Successful Products.) That's because no product survives contact with the customers.

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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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Jerry Fletcher

OCTOBER 23, 2021

It was good to hear how the little golf product company he founded was doing. Marketing Consultant/Start up Consultant. I came onboard because he wanted a marketing consultant. Very quickly I turned into a start-up consultant. tend to take comments about alternatives to the product seriously.

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Jerry Fletcher

MARCH 13, 2021

Your team includes all the folks that get credit when the job is done, the objective reached, or the product is delivered. Trust lowers your stress and makes you more productive. That is true whether the business is a product, a service or a combination of the two. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. Your Company.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 5, 2021

(That might be the feature set or the product. ). ” Many managers now realize they don't have to see everything to get an idea of where the team is going with the product. However, maybe this is a new product for you and you don't quite know how to do that yet. When will we see half of it? That's good.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 11, 2019

We had (and still have) too many products to keep the same teams on them for a long time. For programs, the team stayed together and moved to a different feature set/internal product until the program finished. We could move to a new product and/or a new team. My job was to smooth the way for people to deliver products.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

I assume you have some sort of functional product development expertise. If not, why are you in technical product development? This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility. First, the product-based expertise. That's often product people, testers, and some UI/UX people.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But there are several problems with all this planning: These plans require prediction at all levels, from strategy to product to what the team delivers. However, too often, the managers prevent product innovations or strategy changes because they planned so much. That's the product. They plan to be able to predict the future.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 25, 2023

By product, where they assign a team to a product for a long period of time. By person, where they take one person from here and one person from there, etc, to create enough people to work on the product. Every time the team delivers, the leaders can reassess the ongoing value of the project or product.

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Jerry Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

I sent a one sheet on my Trust speech and a link to my speaking demo not expecting a response since I was mor interested in their events in major cities across the USA. In part it was because he never stopped tinkering with the product going through at least 5 programmers I was aware of. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The first is that Brooks strongly suggested the idea of a “surgical team” That hierarchical team was a feature- or product-based team. Ten people, seven of them professionals, are at work on the problem, but the system is the product of one mind–or at most two, acting uno animo.”

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Jerry Fletcher

OCTOBER 2, 2021

If you intend to sell beyond your local area and provide services or products you need to have a presence on line. Unlimited products. You can sell as many products as you can invent or purchase whether the product is real world or digital. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel. Consulting: [link] Speaking: [link].

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 3, 2020

You might have hypotheses about your market, your customers, or how your current product(s) can offer value. Normally, I like to ask the teams who deliver the product to also do the discovery. You might find, as I do, that using flow/kanban with WIP limits and a cadence of planning/demos/retros works better for you.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Back in Part 1 of this series, I explained all the problems I saw with this interview question: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. The Wednesday Agenda 9:30- 10 am (or thereabouts) demo the progress the team made. What should the Scrum Master do?” That day needs an agenda.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

In addition, a product leader might approve the feature. Finally, the team, a product leader, or the customer(!) might demo the feature. That defect escaped all your checklists, approvals, and demos. Yes, they had to spend time fixing those problems, but they were under no illusions about the quality of the product.

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Jerry Fletcher

APRIL 17, 2021

If a celebrity is enthusiastic about your product and endorses it, you could have a winner. If a fan becomes a social media star and brags on your product, you just might have a winner. Amazon changed the pace of delivery across a plethora of product lines. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. You could have a winner.

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Jerry Fletcher

OCTOBER 9, 2021

If you are a consultant it is a pretty good bet that you have a profile on Linked In. A photo in the background that shows product(s) you are associated with. Your title Since most consultants are independent professionals operating as solos (nearly 70% in our last survey) you can call yourself anything you like.

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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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Jerry Fletcher

DECEMBER 11, 2021

We talked briefly about what I was doing in my Consulting practice working with elite consultants from Singapore to Madrid to make them more memorable and more profitable. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel. Consulting: [link] Speaking: [link]. We would not have been invited if that were the case. And so it goes.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

I started this series with many specific concerns about a particular interview question: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. Divide and Conquer is Anti-Agility I see the product owner and dev team as a divide-and-conquer approach to work. When was the most recent demo?

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Jerry Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

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. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel. Consulting: [link] Speaking: [link].

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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

AUGUST 28, 2019

When you ask this question, you might learn what some of my clients learned: Sometimes, managers wanted to know when it was safe to announce the product. ” I thought it was reasonable to use data to be able to announce the product. I like demos to know when if we're on track. Demos can tell us if we've done enough.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Let's assume everyone works together, on one project (product, if you prefer). So, let's assume the team spends a total of 4 hours planning, retrospecting, demoing, all that non-creation time out of the 40 hours the team works. I would add demoing in as value creation, but I'm not sure how accountants categorize feedback loops.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 18, 2021

Years ago, I consulted with a software company that purposefully hired from the “bottom of the barrel.” They hired me because they were in danger of going out of business due to their inability to release a working product. Instead, tell the manager to create the environment where the team can release the product.).

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