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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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Intrigued by the possibility of a way out of the burnout cycle, a coworker (Colin) and I started meeting every other week to discuss productivity. To give more rigor to our meetings, we decided to define a metric for our productivity: average weekly hours worked. The same is true for productivity. Define a metric.

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Consulting Matters

JUNE 24, 2020

Offers & Pricing : What products and services your clients will love and be more than willing to pay for (that will deliver on the promised transformation). How to Make Sure Your System Gets Consulting Clients. To ensure your system works and scales: Install metrics for each aspect of the system. We all struggle with it.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2024

What Managers Want: More Net Income Let me start with a very simplified profit and loss discussion using the ideas of AARRR “Pirate Metrics” to describe what managers want. And when the customers refer others to the product and the company, that customer value increases even more. However gross revenue is never enough.

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LSA Global

JULY 1, 2024

While the specific strategy success metrics vary across different industries and different strategies, metrics tend to fall into four overall buckets: Financial, Customer, Employee, and Other. Here is a list of the top thirteen metrics that CEOs should measure for strategic success.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 11, 2022

In this article, we’ll consider some essential metrics that can be used to assess the fruitfulness of change management efforts. . To assess the organizational performance, the following metrics can be used: . The assessment of individual performance may include the following metrics: . Change management performance .

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 3, 2019

Associate Product Manager (APM) positions are well known in Silicon Valley as rotational, mentorship-focused programs designed to accelerate the careers of young aspiring product managers. But how do you filter and come down to a set of positions you want to apply for? how invested the company is in your product.

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Clarity Consultants

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Understanding and applying the right training effectiveness metrics is imperative for organizations to assess the impact of their training initiatives and ensure they contribute to the overall business objectives. This might include test scores, feedback surveys, and performance metrics.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Products fueled by data and machine learning can be a powerful way to solve users’ needs. Classic examples include Google search and Amazon product recommendations, both of which improve as more users engage. Data products are a team sport. Develop the data-savvy of product and business groups.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2024

Then, in Part 2 , I asked those unemployed agilists to review their functional skills, the skills people need to do a product development job well. That's why I then asked people to review their product-oriented domain expertise and agile-focused domain expertise in Part 3. And use the flow metrics so you can see progress.

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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

APRIL 24, 2024

Here's a scatter plot: Yes, I realize those little dots are hard to see, so if anyone knows how to fix this in Excel, I would love to know. Now, as to how long things took? Partly because they also do production support—but those are mostly cycle times of 2-3 days. Instead, learn how to calculate and use cycle time.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 30, 2024

To succeed, cosmetic companies must connect with their target audience, create engaging campaigns, and highlight unique product benefits. Here’s how to market cosmetic products effectively to maximize impact and drive results. Find out how to market beauty brands successfully here.

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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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Business Consulting Agency

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Find out here how to increase online sales. Simplify navigation by organizing products into clear categories and using intuitive menus. Identify and target keywords that align with your products and customer search behavior. Invest in high-quality images and videos that showcase your products from multiple angles.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

In addition, a product leader might approve the feature. Finally, the team, a product leader, or the customer(!) But if you are similar to one of my long-ago clients, they could plan on too many defect escapes every time they released another version of the product. This is easier if you work as a mob/ensemble, pair, or swarm.)

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

They are: Understand the various risks: project, product, and organization, and how to manage those risks with feedback loops. Let's start with risks and how feedback loops manage those risks. How Much Feedback Does Your Project Need? All roads lead to Flow Metrics.) Plan for shorter projects. 1,2 and so on.

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SkillQuo

AUGUST 31, 2017

For any business to grow, this growth is determined by the products that the business is selling and the need that these commodities are assuaging for the customers. How your business interacts with current and potential customers will determine the profit increase over time. HOW TO TURN LEADS INTO SALES.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 5, 2021

I was ranting and raving about how to help people see their confidence levels. He pointed me to this slideshare: Lightweight Kanban Metrics (in German). I'll use his slides as inspiration when I walk through an example below. (That might be the feature set or the product. ). That's how to create the histogram.).

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 2024

The goal to release the product. When the team can focus on the product, as a cross-functional team, they can create some agility. See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for more information. You can use the flow metrics, too. Not any single person's individual goal.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 20, 2021

Everyone does the best job they know how to do. Instead of talking about empowerment, let's discuss how we trust teams and people to do their best job. Why do managers persist in demanding teams use a “standard” board, or use “standard” metrics, such as velocity? Because the teams are not empowered.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. The better the team learns together, the better the product is. See Product Orientation Requires Technical Excellence ).

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 4, 2024

What happens when a developer or tester (or, if you're lucky) a team has to choose between two products? See Throughput: Why Salary Costs Matter Less Than You Think They Do and Flow Metrics and Why They Matter for Teams and Managers for the details.) What happens? They choose what to do because the senior leaders are micromanaging.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In one global consumer products company that I work with, my firm’s organizational assessment revealed an unusually intense degree of aggravation over how much time was consumed by meetings, leaving “only evenings to do our day jobs,” according to one interviewee. How to Design an Agenda for an Effective Meeting.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore how to manage small business advertising effectively through proper planning, budgeting, targeting, and optimization. Additionally, look at their behaviors and preferences—what products do they buy, and what challenges do they face? Additionally, track specific metrics that align with your business goals.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

One question that has long plagued organizations is how to improve performance among frontline workers, the people who actually drive customer experience. To show how it works, we’ll walk you through an example. For example, in one store, a challenge was how to get more walk-in customers. Shana Novak/Getty Images.

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Business Consulting Agency

AUGUST 14, 2024

From limited budgets to targeting the right audience, small business owners must navigate a complex landscape to effectively promote their products or services. Understanding common small business marketing problems and knowing how to fix them is crucial for long-term success.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 17, 2023

Lack of awareness or education: Leaders may not be aware of servant leadership principles or may not understand how to apply them effectively. How to Implement Servant Leadership with your Team Here are seven proven steps for implementing servant leadership in a company or with your team. Finally, see Rick’s newest book.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

One client I worked with recently — let’s call it Sales and Product Co. For Sales and Product Co, this meant the C-suite routinely scheduling time to discuss progress, and leaving enough space in their diaries to be available to discuss issues and blockages as the need arose. Why is this signal so hard to send?

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

How to Win Over Value Buyers + Key Mistakes to Avoid Studies highlighted by our microlearning experts show that more than half of all sales prospects are value buyers who focus on achieving measurable business outcomes. Then articulate how your solution advances those metrics in a way that makes sense.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 21, 2024

The product leader had changed out one story and added that new story in. ” After much loud discussion, the product leader agreed. However, once the product leader stopped changing the work, the team was back to their normal throughput of roughly 6 stories per iteration. (A See the flow metrics newsletter.)

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 14, 2024

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers. I strongly recommend product development teams use Cost of Delay to rank the work. The post How to use Timeboxes instead of Batch Planning: Visible Progress or Focus to Finish appeared first on. That doesn't help anyone finish. Instead, make work small and finish it.

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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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1 to 1

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), Customer Effort Score (CES), and Net Promoter Score (NPS) metrics have long been invaluable tools in the industry, but it’s critical to recognize that these metrics on their own cannot improve customer experience. How to improve CSAT. How to improve CES. What is a CSAT rating?

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Management Consulted

MARCH 22, 2016

However, is it (for example, knowing how to do a Western blot in your sleep) going to make you an asset to the firm you’re applying to? Knowing how to read an academic CV and wanting to read an academic CV are two very different things. 3 – Too long and not metrics-driven. If not, don’t include it. Far from it!

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

The corollary, of course, is “we don’t know how to do that.” That’s our product, and that’s our passion. It launched a product, gathered feedback, and kept iterating as it scaled and added users. Your data isn’t even in the picture. We are simply not interested in any of it.”

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1 to 1

MARCH 28, 2022

Here’s how to engage and motivate a gigCX workforce that delivers exceptional results. Focus on flexibility The evolving state of the workforce presents employers with a new challenge: how to attract and retain workers. Measure the right behavior Make sure a gigCX worker’s performance metrics are aligned with the right results.

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