Tom Spencer

MAY 17, 2020

This is a new experience for many of us, and poses new challenges and distractions that can make it difficult to stay focused and productive. I’ve been getting asked a lot lately about productivity, and so I thought I should dedicate an article to it. It doesn’t matter how focused you may be. Rise Early each Morning.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 4, 2024

What if it's most efficient to do the work for a person or a team? What happens when a developer or tester (or, if you're lucky) a team has to choose between two products? Reducing management delays and increasing management throughput allows everyone to be efficient and effective. Individual efficiency is a red herring.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 9, 2022

Resource Efficiency. ” I asked, “How many projects are they working on?” ” “Each resource has at least two projects so they stay productive and efficient.” ” These managers have created a resource efficiency culture, not a flow efficiency culture, as in the image above. .”

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Comatch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

This is because hobbies can impact both internal drivers of efficiency, like multi-tasking, and external factors, such as networking and information collection. . 3 Reasons Hobbies Drive Productivity. Independent consultants are multi-role players, having to master every aspect of their consulting product. Stay Focused.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2021

The performance review problem helps them realize the source of this disconnect: How can we focus on aperson's solo contributions to the work when we want to encourage and retain collaboration? That disconnect occurs when managers, HR, everyone focuses on resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. What we encourage in the work.

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Epicflow

JUNE 21, 2023

Among other things, this can be achieved by improving a company’s operational efficiency. How is it possible to increase operational efficiency in project-based organizations? What Is Operational Efficiency and Why Improve It? Improving operational efficiency means delivering more output with the same or less input.

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Business Consulting Agency

MAY 3, 2024

Starting a pet products business can be an exciting and rewarding venture, given the increasing number of pet owners and the growing market for pet care products. However, like any new business, launching a pet products company comes with its own set of challenges.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2021

Their developers work on a product for months and years at a time. ” Shared service-thinking denies the reality of effective product development: A cross-functional team learns together as they develop the product. That's because the managers think resource efficiency works. Everyone waits for other people.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

They do that with: Assessing and managing project or program risks for the team's effort and the overall product. Each person works in resource efficiency, focused on their deliverables. Too often, people outside the team, such as managers or product managers, create the team's multitasking. Not for the product.

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Improving Business Performance: Essential Steps Business performance indicates how effectively a company achieves its objectives. It involves financial and non-financial indicators, e.g., a company’s productivity, profitability, customer satisfaction, and others. So, how can companies improve their business performance?

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Epicflow

APRIL 15, 2022

To be able to stay competitive on the market and cope with any arising issues, aerospace engineering companies are expected to seek how to improve operational efficiency in general and the engineering processes in particular. . What drives efficiency of aircraft engineering projects? Keep control of changing requirements.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 25, 2014

One the other hand, possibilities for competitive differentiation and new products seem limitless. For example, Opower tapped into a great market using software-as-a-service and a behavioral efficiency model for saving energy. How should we get new ideas related to behavioral economics? How will we know when we are successful?

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 26, 2021

B2B Business (Consulting or Coaching) - Offer your advice and partnership sought out and paid for by a leader tasked with improving an organization's results – company profit, customer satisfaction, process efficiency, employee effectiveness, leadership excellence, work environment, and culture. How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 26, 2019

As I've written these product role posts, a number of you have asked about how to use component teams. This shows how we need component teams to deliver smallish slices of features. Let's see how to make that work. Each team has the capability to build and test the entire product at all times. If so, fine.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

I assume you have some sort of functional product development expertise. If not, why are you in technical product development? This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility. First, the product-based expertise. That's often product people, testers, and some UI/UX people.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

However, if people collaborate with pairing, swarming, or mobbing, they work in flow efficiency. That collaboration means they will learn together and learn how to right-size organically. Every time I finish something, I mentally note how long it took. If you're a product leader, you need a product value team.

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2022

What are the most typical risks associated with aerospace engineering projects, and how to manage them effectively? Issues with the supply chain lead to poor quality of products and delays in their releases. Sub-par materials will inevitably affect the quality of the final product making it dangerous for the end users. .

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Flow Efficiency In How Centralization Decisions Create Friction, Increase Cycle Time, and Cost Money, Part 1, I discussed how removing support staff for departments and managers created longer cycle times. Now, it's time for Economies of Scale and how that ties into resource efficiency thinking.

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Clarity Consultants

JULY 28, 2021

In others, it’s because they’ve discovered better work-life balance and boosted productivity, making the work-from-home model beneficial personally and professionally. It ensures your workforce can engage with the tech properly, increasing overall efficiency both in and out of the office. Providing Health and Wellness Information.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

One of the big problems I see with a product orientation (as opposed to a project) is in preparing for ongoing work. You might not start the next project for this product after you complete this project. However, if you want to develop a product orientation, you’ll need to consider the future. We call it technical debt.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 28, 2022

Besides, business owners can have their facilities around the world independent of their place of residence or other teams that aren’t involved in production. To plan projects’ flows and apply efficient allocation strategies, a project or a resource manager has to know how many resources will be needed to perform a planned scope of work.

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Business Consulting Agency

JULY 16, 2024

Starting a skincare product line can be a highly rewarding venture, especially for dermatologists who have a deep understanding of skin health and patient needs. Leveraging your expertise as a dermatologist, you can create high-quality, scientifically-backed products that address specific skin concerns.

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Markovitz Consulting

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In the space of two weeks, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both ran articles on the productivity benefits of reduced work hours. Not to be outdone, NPR reported that Microsoft Japan moved to a four-day workweek this summer while increasing productivity by 40%. There’s certainly some truth to that argument.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 7, 2022

For example, you may have on average 1 minute and 15 seconds to drive a user to purchase your product. Scroll Length – This refers to how much of the page an average user views. The process of data collection, analysis, and product improvements for the desktop website will be different from the mobile site. Deliver Efficiency.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Learn the basic frameworks Familiarize yourself with common business frameworks such as the profitability framework , market entry, SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats), the 3Cs (Company, Customers, Competitors), and the 4Ps (Product, Price, Place, Promotion). As you gather more data, test and refine your hypothesis.

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Epicflow

JULY 5, 2024

Reporting and analytics A robust capacity planning tool should generate reports and dashboards with insights into resource availability and capacity, allocation, and utilization, which will help managers track resource performance and assess the efficiency of project work. This helps maintain high productivity levels.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 16, 2024

This guide explores the essential strategies for distributing products within the United States, covering the different distribution channels, logistical considerations, and how to optimize processes for cost-efficiency and market reach. A well-structured distribution strategy helps businesses maximize reach and efficiency.

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Epicflow

JULY 27, 2022

Increasing employee productivity is a hot topic in every business environment today. How to make certain that your team members work at their full capacity, and how a resource management solution can help? What Affects Employee Productivity? Let’s figure it out in the article. . Employees’ workload.

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Business Consulting Agency

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

However, selling products in the USA successfully requires more than simply entering the marketit demands a strategic approach tailored to the countrys diverse consumer base, regulatory landscape, and competitive environment. By understanding the market and implementing proven strategies, businesses can position their products for success.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 25, 2023

In How to Predict When the Team Will Complete a Specific Backlog Item, Part 1 , I said there was no way to accurately predict an estimate for a specific backlog item more than a month away. By product, where they assign a team to a product for a long period of time. Decide if that's where you want your product to go.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 10, 2024

Worse, these people and teams don't feel any satisfaction with their products. And all those ways require we change the culture from that of resource-efficiency thinking to flow-efficiency thinking. Flow Efficiency Cultural Changes When teams collaborate, they work in flow efficiency and often see better teamwork and throughput.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Maybe even draw a picture of when the story/product completes. (I All the ways John's code connected—or didn't—to the rest of the product. They learn how to think with others. In addition, they work to simplify their code and the entire product. Instead, you want to reinforce flow efficiency.

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 29, 2021

Back Mechanic is for your average person who suffers from back pain and wants to learn how they can fix it themselves. In Back Mechanic , he distills the essentials of how to fix your back into a book format. With Back Mechanic, Dr. McGill has taken his expertise and created a product out of it. And it costs $35.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 28, 2023

Too many managers don't know how to manage remote people. Many of these spied-upon people have installed mouse (and keyboard) simulator products. Yes, these products randomly move the mouse to pretend the person is “working.” Yes, these products randomly move the mouse to pretend the person is “working.”

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

I started this series with many specific concerns about a particular interview question: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. Divide and Conquer is Anti-Agility I see the product owner and dev team as a divide-and-conquer approach to work. How do they tend to decide?

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Epicflow

MAY 12, 2022

What do you need to know to allocate resources efficiently in a multi-project environment and utilize them to the full? Resources are allocated efficiently when the right people work on the right tasks, while employees’ workload remains balanced – they are neither over- or underloaded. . Let’s figure it out in the article. .

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

In innovative products, the interdependencies can change any day. How is it possible these people have such different experiences than I do? If your product does not need much innovation, you can plan for longer and know you will meet that plan. Those are the kinds of products that do not require much, if any, innovation.

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