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Effective Agility: Three Suggestions to Change How You and Your Team Work, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for more information. This can work well if you demo something at least monthly once you start writing code and tests. Tip 3: Demo Something Monthly (At a Minimum) The more your project demos your progress, the more other people—especially managers—will trust you.

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

Johanna Rothman

However, hiring managers expect deep agile expertise that connect to the Pirate metrics. Here are some ideas that might relate your agile experience and expertise to value: How you've used the flow metrics while supporting a project and/or the managers. That idea of inspect and adapt based on learning.) That add little to no value.

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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. Then articulate how your solution advances those metrics in a way that makes sense.

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How to Win Over Value Buyers + 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. Then articulate how your solution advances those metrics in a way that makes sense.

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TikTok Advertising Tips by Marketing Professionals

Business Consulting Agency

For example, product demos, tutorials, or behind-the-scenes clips work well on TikTok. Track Performance Metrics Successful TikTok advertising requires continuous monitoring and adjustment. Marketing professionals track key performance metrics such as views, engagement rates, click-through rates, and conversions.

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

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.). You don't need too many metrics if you can see visible progress.

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What’s Wrong With Detailed Gantt Charts and How to Make Fewer Details Work for You

Johanna Rothman

In addition, I ask teams to show visual progress , such as in a demo. I want architecture feedback loops as early as possible in the project, which is why I want visual progress with demos. Yes, Little's Law and the flow metrics rule our work. See Predicting the Unpredictable for more details.) That increases WIP.

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