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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 5, Origins of Agile Approaches

Johanna Rothman

The original signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development wanted to solve these specific problems: How can we: Bring more adaptability to software development? If you read these books, you could understand project-based agility. However, many people wanted “the recipe” for agility.

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How and When to Use Timeboxes, Iterations, and Sprints to be Most Effective

Johanna Rothman

A colleague unfamiliar with lifecycles or agility asked, “How can we use sprints in this approach?” Maybe 2003? See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.). And you don't have to use an agile approach to use an iteration. It looked just like the serial lifecycle in the image on the left.

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Let go of past success to achieve extraordinary results by Barry O’Reilly

Mind the Product

Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong, all experienced SARS in 2003 and MERS in 2012, Barry tells us. Discover what other product people and organisations are doing during the disruption of COVID-19: An Agile Project to Enable Social Distancing: a Case Study by Katarzyna Malecka. Further Reading.

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Using Net Promoter Score (NPS) for Measuring Your Product/Market Fit

The Product Coalition

The metric was originally developed by Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company, and Satmetrix, and it was introduced by Reichheld himself at Harvard Business Review in 2003. He teaches teams how to set up a winning product strategy, run customer and product development processes, as well as robust their lean, agile, and design thinking skills.

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3 Must-Have Product Leadership Skills to Survive the Corona Crisis

The Product Coalition

Beijing’s Forbidden City, July 2003 (photo taken by me) June 24th, 2003, was the first day of life after SARS in Beijing. Agile Is the New Steady State Agile as a mindset and a way of life, not as a development methodology. To survive and succeed, your product leadership must be sharper than ever.

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The Importance of Listening to Your Customers by David Cancel

Mind the Product

In 2003 Lego lost $300 million – even though Lego has the highest profit margin of any toy brand – and predicted a loss of $400 million in 2004. My approach, for the last decade at least, has been to shift away from waterfall and agile methodologies and say we now build software that is connected to our customers.” No excuses.

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Bain Public

Banff Interactive Screen 2003, Banff, Canada Flash Forward 2002, San Francisco, U.S. FITC Winnipeg 2006, Canada FITC Toronto 2006, Canada FITC Toronto 2005, Canada Flash Forward 2005, New York, U.S. Flash Forward 2005, San Francisco, U.S. FITC Toronto 2004, Canada Flash Forward 2004, San Francisco, U.S. Reach out to me at info@bainpublic.com.