Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In our conversation, we discuss: • Strategies for becoming less distractible and improving focus • The difference between distraction and “traction” • Reactive work vs. reflexive work and why you should book time in your calendar • The 10-minute rule to overcome internal triggers and stay focused • The problem (..)

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 15, 2024

Experience reports tend to have a timebox of twenty to thirty minutes. Then there are pecha kuchas, where the presenter speaks to twenty slides, just twenty seconds per slide. Most often, the slides contain just images. They often require a paper that goes along with them.

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Nir Eyal

APRIL 4, 2022

For most people, it’s not that timeboxing doesn’t work for them — it’s that they’re scared of it. Too often, people eschew a method of bettering their life by naming the reasons it won’t work for them. The post The Time Management Technique That Can Work For Anyone appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

I also discussed the two major approaches to team agility in Part 5 : timeboxed and flow approaches. Knowing your “why” helps you decide whether to start with timeboxes or flow. If you have more risks around getting feedback around features, consider starting with a timeboxed agile approach. Start with the Team.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Finding a Compelling Product Market Fit - Andy Rachleff A Playbook for Achieving Product Market Fit - Dan Olsen The Foolproof Formula for Finding Product-Market Fit - Rahul Vohra The Art of Pivoting Towards Product/Market Fit - Hiten Shah The Real Product Market Fit - Michael Siebel Product-Market Fit Redefined - Ann Miura-Ko How to Evaluate Startup (..)

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2023

If necessary, I do less work in a given timebox, just to make sure I leave the work clean. This is when I might do less, or rank this work higher for my next available timebox. Make sure the work is clean when you stop. If the work is bigger than I thought, decide what to do. But I choose what to do. I don't blindly continue this work.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Having a valid strategy and actionable roadmap available at all times requires two complementing strategizing approaches, a timeboxed and continuous one, as I explain below. Timeboxed Strategizing. It provides the context for making the right tactical decisions including prioritising and managing the product backlog.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I often timeboxed that requirements time to two weeks. I've seen these: Waterfalls inside timeboxes. Waterfalls Inside Timeboxes. I often see waterfalls inside timeboxes. While the people work inside a timebox, there's little collaboration and very long feedback loops. We did an initial pass at requirements.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 30, 2021

I use that persistence in small, timeboxed chunks. Because I am not a “natural” writer. I have written and published enough that I found my writer's voice. Instead of talent, I have persistence. That's part of the growth mindset. Because I don’t need a ton of time. No writer's block, because it's just 15 minutes.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2022

Frameworks, feasibility, fantastic Flurries of features felt, feeding the fanatics Growth got great, goals achieved gradually Groundbreaking in this game getting globally Hit ’em high, hella hype, historical Hi hypotheses, hacking through hypocrisy Imitators idolize, I ideate In an instant, I’ll rise to an investing state Juiced on jobs-to-be-done, (..)

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2020

Timebox is the agreed time that a team works towards in order to achieve their goals. You can read more about timeboxing here 4. When activities are not time-boxed. This is why teams must have well-defined sprints and scrum ceremonies. Image Credits: Visual-paradigm Adopting sprint events allows a team to work more effectively.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

Timeboxed learning cycles. You work in timeboxed execution cycles, working through tasks as a team. Timeboxed learning cycles. When companies try to implement Scrum or Agile for hardware, they get hung-up on the mechanics. Rapid prototyping. Engaging with customers. After this, the tactics are similar to Scrum.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2019

Sometimes it even makes sense to employ a release train and timebox major product releases, for example, to coordinate different products or regularly offer improvements to the users. Ensure the Roadmap is Realistic.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

And even in that step, you can timebox it and really define what success is and what’s in it for your leader.” Either it’s completely off what the organization wants to achieve, or it’s deemed too risky or expensive, or it is something completely new and not proven yet.”

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The Sprint Review happens at the end of the Sprint timebox. If others are present, the Scrum Master ensures that they do not disrupt the meeting”?—? The Scrum Guide Sprint Review?—? Over the course of the Sprint, the Development Team may have produced many potentially releasable ‘Done’ Increments.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 9, 2018

Consider Timeboxing the Product Discovery Activities. Luckily, there is a straightforward solution: timebox your product discovery work. Knowing upfront how much time and effort will be required to carry out the necessary discovery work is tricky. New risks and work items often emerge as part of the validation work.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 19, 2022

Furthermore, this work is not easy to “timebox,” which leads to prolonged periods with scarce progress in between (an easy example: based on a first strategy conversation, you will find out you need more information, which will trigger a new strategy session once you get it).

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 23, 2020

And, in order to “finish” everything inside the timebox, you don't do any of these things: Refactor to simplify the code or the tests. They used this experiment: Choose a one-hour timebox. Your team says they use Scrum in two-week iterations. Create automated tests. The team chose to swarm first.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 7, 2019

And, a shorter timebox limits the team's WIP (Work in Progress). Now, you have data about how the team can work in either a 2-week or shorter timebox. Thinking About Cadence vs. Iterations for the difference between a cadence and a timebox.) (I And, often, the team has to collaborate to move the work to done.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Use a timeboxed set of experiments to decide what to do next. When we release, we can regroup and figure out what to do next for this product. We might: Iterate over more prototypes, in another project. Fork another product. (I I did this with several Lite vs Pro products using this approach.).

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A Plus/Delta session can take about 15–30 minutes: Set a topic of discussion and timebox 5 minutes to generate feedback. It is a great tool to introduce a lightweight and casual feedback tool for fostering a healthy team feedback culture. Take 10 minutes each to share and discuss the feedback. Be kind and constructive when giving feedback.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 9, 2019

If the team has not worked together in the past, I offer a couple of options: Spend a one-hour timebox (or less) to draft working agreements and plan to revisit the agreements in a week or earlier. I tend to timebox the charter to 60-90 minutes. I tend to timebox these activities, too. These are all part of the project charter.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 29, 2022

Work in short timeboxes with breaks, so I stay healthy. That way, I can pick it up again and quickly see where I am. (A A form of technical excellence.). Look for the highest Cost of Delay (what will it cost me to be late on this work) as the way to rank the work. I'll use Pomodoros with durations of 20-30 minutes with a 5-minute break.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

As an example, a couple of years ago my team used this approach to figure out critical paths for options analysis of infrastructure tools, timeboxing the total time for analysis and using the roadmap to help us understand different scenarios we might hit, and the subsequent impact it might have. Confidence.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2020

We edited the recording slightly; for example, we removed the waiting time during the exercise timeboxes. The participants agreed on recording it and make it available to the agile community. Otherwise, the video accurately reflects how one way of collaborating with a distributed team using Zoom breakout rooms may work.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 17, 2021

The most common way I've seen is when people speak with each other for a short timebox as in Standup or Handoff. That person then hands off work to the other person. The handoff might work in a couple of different ways. However, job-sharing is not a pair of managers working together.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 5, 2018

The team doesn’t receive feedback on their work until they finally release, at the end of the timebox. I’ve seen three and four-week timeboxes. The longer a team waits to release, the more difficult the release can be, and the more the team is tempted to work via architectural layers instead of through the architecture.

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Amplitude

MARCH 16, 2020

As a first step, collaboratively agree on a fixed timebox for a discovery mission. Consider this timebox as an enabling constraint, not as a race to check off as many boxes as possible. At a certain point you need to reconsider your approach. Not committing the resources/time, and doing “discovery work” in name only.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

At this stage, they created some circuit breakers for each step of the process and started timeboxing different activities. They ran a retro to take a closer look at their process. They wanted to identify what was working and what wasn’t. They decided they wanted to go through the process every 20 days.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

What Scrum Says: Hold periodic Sprint Planning meetings, timeboxed up to 5% of sprint time. Timeboxes are a nice idea, but what do you do if you can’t accomplish everything you need to accomplish inside of your box? It spills out one way or another, so I’ve found timeboxes to be more of a goal or suggestion than a strict boundary.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 13, 2022

I'd rewrite “secure login” as “Secure customer data in search by creating a timeboxed login.” That's because no one ever wants to log in. However, they do want security for their data. ” These examples explain the problem we're solving for the customers.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 31, 2017

I often timebox this to 7 minutes. At the end of the timebox, get together with everyone else in their team and look at their cards. I often timebox this to 7 minutes. Organize the cards by removing duplicates, and splitting features they realize they need. Add up all the features in this feature set.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 1, 2021

What is a Tech Spike Understanding why Tech Spike’s exists helps us define them: A Tech Spike is an activity for exploring a problem and possible solutions during the course of delivering a product or platform in order to increase your confidence in being able to successfully deliver the features or functionality needed in line with timeline, budget (..)

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 11, 2019

For example, teams might always do an experiment in one day—they would timebox the work to one day and work on just that experiment as a team in one day. The team can define its various cycle times, either with measurement or with timeboxing. The product value team can replan more often with less pain.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The essence of Scrum: focus on learning by doing and reflecting The Scrum Team works together towards a common goal in a fixed timebox of a month or shorter— called a Sprint. The Sprint ends when the agreed timebox of a month or less expires. The common goal the Scrum Team works toward is called the Sprint Goal.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

What I’m proposing can be time-consuming, but I focus on doing all of it efficiently (try timeboxing your activities to one or two weeks). The goal is to achieve a reasonable level of confidence – a probability field of dreams, if you will. 5: Make the Upfront Investment. And ultimately I find that it’s time well spent.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Timeboxing You may have heard of the Parkinson’s Law, expressed as “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”. In many cases, there is a key decider, usually the product manager, that makes the final decision after hearing all the ideas and seeing the voting results. This is also true for discussions.

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