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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

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.

Agile 85
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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

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

Johanna Rothman

That's because a finance person drew the lifecycle.). 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. We used internal demos because the cost to release was so high.

Agile 90
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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. 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.

Agile 74
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How One Startup Developed a Sales Model That Works in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business

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.

Sales 70
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To Increase Sales, Get Customers to Commit a Little at a Time

Harvard Business

Incremental commitments can also convince prospects to change, which is vital in selling new products or services. Unless the proposed benefits of a new product significantly outweigh their perceived losses of a change, prospects tend to stick with what they know, a phenomenon known as the endowment effect.

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