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Experience the Future of Learning at DevLearn 2024 with Clarity Consultants

Clarity Consultants

As you walk the show floor, you’ll engage with live demos, product launches, and exclusive offers from over 125 exhibitors. Leadership Exchange : Join the exclusive DevLearn Leadership Exchange to engage in in-depth discussions on strategic leadership, talent management, and developing future leaders.

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

Johanna Rothman

Because the “teams” couldn't deliver something small, they didn't demo very often. Over months, they stopped demoing anything. Because no one saw any demos, management couldn't trust the teams to deliver. The managers thought Finance needed schedule variance. That one action changed how people saw their jobs.

Agile 85
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How and When to Use Timeboxes, Iterations, and Sprints to be Most Effective

Johanna Rothman

That's because a finance person drew the lifecycle.). Not the thinking and learning that go into the deliverables where you end up with something demo-able, if not usable.” However, they don't deliver value, have team-based planning, a review/demo, or a retrospective. I said, “You can't use ‘sprints.'

Agile 90
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What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like

Harvard Business

When organizations lack a formal innovation pipeline process, project approvals tend to be based on who has the best demo or slides, or who lobbies the hardest. The framework has the team talking not just to potential customers but also with regulators, and people responsible for legal, policy, finance, support.

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Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation

Johanna Rothman

I am not a finance person. If you need to capitalize, talk to your finance people. 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 I'm not offering financial or legal advice. You can only capitalize the value creation work.

Agile 74
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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. I am the cofounder and CEO of BioLite.

Sales 70
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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

Note that Marketing, Finance, HR, are all part of this product line. Instead, the projects used a staged-delivery life cycle , an incremental approach with cross-functional teams and monthly demos. We integrated customer support into our demos, so they understood what their challenges would be when we released.