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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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

It prevents overloading or underutilizing team members, increasing productivity and employee satisfaction. Industries Epicflow serves a wide range of industries, including aerospace and defence, healthcare, telecommunications, software development, automotive, and government institutions, demonstrating its versatility and reliability.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Our flagship products are wood-burning stoves that generate electricity from fire while reducing toxic smoke emissions by 90%. Customers have myriad channels to discover new products and shop at outdoor gear retailers to explore, evaluate, and choose what they need. Handi shop customers had never seen a product like ours.

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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. I focused on the actual development costs. Those people work independently until they need to verify the product as a whole, works. This hardware team swarms on a product. Just like software.)

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category. Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers.

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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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Epicflow

JANUARY 21, 2022

Its current development is primarily driven by 4 major trends: connectivity, autonomous vehicles, shared mobility, and electrification. global chip shortage), and the need for reducing production costs add to the above-mentioned difficulties. . The need to shorten the time for product development. The need to cut costs.

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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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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

It prevents overloading or underutilizing team members, increasing productivity and employee satisfaction. Industries Epicflow serves a wide range of industries, including aerospace and defence, healthcare, telecommunications, software development, automotive, and government institutions, demonstrating its versatility and reliability.

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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

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

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. That's because they knew the customers would find problems the development teams had not found.

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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

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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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Blog and Newslog development to include recording and editing audio and video components and uploading them to Vimeo and YouTube Books, for example one for entrepreneurs on how to use speaking to build a business Speaking professionally requires a great deal of sales activity. Don’t waste production time. Lots of content.

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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

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

OCTOBER 24, 2023

For years, we've used several metaphors to describe software product development: People-based metaphors, such as: Man-weeks for all the humans working on a project or a product. Demo inside the organization. In product development, is it anyone's job to make a baby at work? Worse, the less effective we are.

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

together with the delayed work, this can lead to missed project due dates; overloaded resources are stressed, their productivity drops, which can result in burnout. A bottleneck is an overloaded resource that cannot do the demanded scope of work on time, and therefore, hampers the whole workflow. The effect of a bottleneck can be dramatic.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

There's a great introduction article, Capitalization of software development costs.). 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.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Your customers can't take your product more often than once or twice a year. Because the product doesn't need to leave the building, the teams don't release internally. Nor do the teams demo on a regular basis. What if we thought of all these people as customers: The various people who buy the product. Colleagues?).

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 5, 2019

Now, he did have a sales support team to set up product demos and handle logistics and scheduling. An alternative to the STAR method is a way of answering resume questions that I developed called the PARADE method. So from his point of view, "we" generated $10 million in sales.

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The Fearless Marketer

JANUARY 13, 2020

Let’s say you’re a manager who’s looking for somebody to help their team work more productively and creatively. Do they look up productivity consultants on Google, find a web product page about “Productivity and Creative Services for Businesses” and then click on the buy button? Wouldn’t that be nice! Not gonna happen.

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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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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. What about business development value? In part it was because he never stopped tinkering with the product going through at least 5 programmers I was aware of.

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ConsultX

MARCH 1, 2022

History of the Profit Leakage Calculator ConsultX has developed its own Profit Leakage Calculator as a diagnostic tool to discover the areas of a business that are draining the most profit. Calculation The Profit Leakage Calculator processes the financial and Business Analysis information based on a highly developed algorithm.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 5, 2018

When a team releases more often, the product people can replan the product roadmaps. The product people don’t create MVEs or MVPs —they need the entire feature set. We all use bloated products that make our lives miserable every day. The longer the team goes without a demo, the less replanning anyone can do.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Because your context is unique to you, your team, project, product, and culture. And, with any luck, nudges the culture in a good direction for your team, project, and product. Why Do You Want an Agile Culture for Your Product? Notice I said the culture is for this particular product. What do you need?

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Asamby Consulting

APRIL 14, 2022

Typical sales funnel with 5 stages: contact, demo/scoping, proposal, negotiation, sale. Demo/Scoping: The perspective customer participates to a meeting or call to know more about a product or service and to share his/her needs and requirements. Proposal: Sending a first commercial proposal to the lead for review and discussion.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

So for companies looking to create revolutionary products, identifying and accessing cutting edge, exploratory research is a key competitive advantage. As Bush wrote in 1945: “New products and new processes do not appear full-grown. ” Yet that poses a problem for managers. Xerox had a working version as early as 1973.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

And, that your products and services need short feedback loops that an agile approach will use. Even if you don't need an agile approach, feature teams will help your product development efforts. You can use “how little” thinking to guide your product development. Start with management first.

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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. Time and Money. Form Pages. Just click here.

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Jerry Fletcher

DECEMBER 11, 2021

See Jerry’s speaker demo reel. We are well down the road from Credibility to Cash. We are well down the road from Credibility to Cash. And so it goes. Jerry Fletcher is a sought-after International Speaker, a beBee ambassador, founder and CEO of Z-axis Marketing, Inc.

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Jerry Fletcher

APRIL 24, 2021

Here are some of the reasons I’m being asked to present this information: Quotes: In a panel on Lead development I said, “ More is not better. Scientists have found 8 management behaviors that use Oxytocin balance to make people more productive. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. What’s Changed? That’s Trust in the New Normal.

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Jerry Fletcher

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Recently, while developing my product called Brandr I realized that most folks don’t understand that Brand has three time components: Now, Later and Long term. Your brand is less about identity and more about the product or service. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel. Now, the Short term. So much for Now. Brain Science.

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Jerry Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Well, what I do is work with individuals and organizations to develop unique trust-based strategies to build businesses, brands and lives of joy. 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.

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