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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. You can use the flow metrics, too.

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

Johanna Rothman

I assume you have some sort of functional product development expertise. If not, why are you in technical product development? If your team has a customer, you're doing some form of product development. However, hiring managers expect deep agile expertise that connect to the Pirate metrics. But that's a different post.)

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Effective Agility: Three Ways to Change Your Team’s Project Culture, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

And product development has at least these risks: Project-based risks, so we can make effective tradeoffs. All roads lead to Flow Metrics.) And once you release regularly, you can deliver and demo that often. Use rolling wave planning to account for new information as the project proceeds. Every effort has risks. 1,2 and so on.

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. 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.).

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How to Measure and Prevent Defect Escapes in Any Project

Johanna Rothman

might demo the feature. That defect escaped all your checklists, approvals, and demos. That's because they knew the customers would find problems the development teams had not found. But the development teams? That's because the development teams worked by phase, not by feature. It's the same when I pair.

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Business Startup Marketing Tactics

Business Consulting Agency

Develop a Strong Brand Identity Before launching any marketing campaign, it is essential to establish a strong brand identity. Consider creating product demos, explainer videos, or interviews with industry experts. Monitor metrics such as website traffic, engagement rates, and conversion rates.

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. 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.).