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Large Features and Long Deadlines Mean You Have a Gantt Chart, Not a Roadmap

Johanna Rothman

Demo on a regular cadence. Which means you can demo at will. Demo Early and Often. If you want to move your managers from “we need it all” thinking to “how little” thinking, demo every single time you release a slice. Record the demo. The demo is part of your data.

Agile 143
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The Business Plan Is Alive And Well But It May Not Be What You Think

Steve Shu Consulting

Often need a mix of instruments here (Powerpoint & Word docs, napkin drawings, demo), depending on the team, industry, and phase of product development (e.g., Business Development General Management Intrapreneurship Management Consulting Sales And Marketing Ventures & Entrepreneurship Business Plan Entrepreneurship Strategy'

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

Johanna Rothman

Tip 1: Start and Maintain a Cross-Functional Team for the Entire Project I still see many supposedly agile “teams,” where the project has a “development team” and a “testing team.” ” Even if the developers and testers are one team, I still see UX or UI teams. But that's the value of the demo.

Agile 71
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With Agile Approaches, No Need to “Meet” or “Enforce” Deadlines

Johanna Rothman

In addition, each component team worked on any number of products, both development and support, for any given iteration. However, software product development is not construction. Software product development requires feedback loops and learning. Over months, they stopped demoing anything. And remotely!)

Agile 85
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How One Startup Developed a Sales Model That Works in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business

At this point we’d experimented enough to know there were a few critical factors to activate a meaningful flow of sales: a highly specialized local sales team who could demo the stove, and a targeted network of potential customers that our sales team could engage at peak interest.

Sales 70
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Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

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. As part of the product development, they spin off security and performance teams. However, their tools approach differs from their product development approaches.

Agile 105