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Find the Right Metrics for Your Sales Team

Harvard Business

As a consequence, managers don’t have a clear sense of what is really driving sales in their business, while salespeople, who are inundated with dozens of metrics, get lost in the day-to-day noise. The challenge, of course, is to decide on the right metrics. Wins are the most common metric used across sales roles and industries.

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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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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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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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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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Top 15 Portfolio Management Tools for Your Business in 2025

Epicflow

These tools offer features for tracking performance metrics, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. Test the Software Before committing, request a demo or a free trial. Check for hidden costs such as implementation, customization, or add-ons. Its performance under realistic workloads.

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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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