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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.

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Different Cultures See Deadlines Differently

Harvard Business

What Leadership Looks Like in Different Cultures. Not understanding why, I took their advice and scheduled two separate demos: the Flemish delegation at 10 AM and the French delegation at 2 PM later that day. At 9:58 AM on the day of the demos, no one had arrived. You and Your Team Series. Managing Across Cultures.

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Win Over Value Buyers and Key Mistakes to Avoid

LSA Global

Having a Product Focus Overemphasizing demos, product features, and benefits instead of focusing on advancing critical business outcomes does not work with outcome-oriented buyers. Value buyers want sellers to uncover, understand, and address their unique needs and pain points. This decreases seller credibility and trust.

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Leadership tip #9: See & Stop Micromanagement—Learn to Trust Instead

Johanna Rothman

Ask for a regular cadence of demos, too. The more often you see a demo, the more often you can see the team succeed. If senior leadership delegates the project portfolio decisions to middle management, then the middle managers decide. This is a part of the series of leadership tips. You don't have to micromanage.

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How Scrum Masters Use Facilitative Leadership Especially When Planning, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

The Wednesday Agenda 9:30- 10 am (or thereabouts) demo the progress the team made. In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I recommend the team end an iteration in the middle of a week. See What's Wrong With Wednesday? That day needs an agenda. 10 am: break and gather any data for the retro, which is next. noon to 1 pm: lunch.

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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. Aside from the problems that the teams don't finish everything each quarter, the senior leadership likes the regular cadence of planning and seeing accomplishments.

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