Modus Create

MAY 12, 2022

In recent years, our consultants have helped several healthcare organizations shift their focus to preventive care and patient outcomes. Companion apps have helped users in self-diagnosis, allowing them to seek proactive treatment. Many healthcare organizations also use companion apps to help their users fight addiction. .

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

More of my clients say they want business agility. Yet, we don't share a common definition of business agility. Those actions show that managers change their actions in the face of new information or feedback. Those actions show that managers change their actions in the face of new information or feedback.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

(I wrote about this problem as a schedule game, “ The Schedule Tool is Always Right. I suspect their teams hide their feedback loops. When people create a high-level WBS, no one sees the feedback loops or the dependencies. The feedback loops tend to be late and create chaos in the project.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

How product managers can use the Modified Agile for Hardware Development Framework. They think they have the answer for applying Agile principles to hardware projects, and they call it the Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework. Today we are talking about using a modified version of Scrum for hardware projects.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

A client wants to know how best to calculate their software capitalization. They've started to use agile approaches. There's a great introduction article, Capitalization of software development costs.). Capitalization for Agile Work. Let me walk you through an example of a 5-person agile team.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 18, 2024

(I discussed this a little in Aging Fun with Drunk Agile (Video) and in How to Assess the Value of Old Data and Its Effect on Aging.) We can file all those ideas into an electronic tool. Then we only have to deal with all those ideas when we open the tool. Those feedback loops.)

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 9, 2021

I said that when we focus on individual achievements and deliverables, we ignore the agile system of work. Worse, when we reward individual achievements we prevent an agile culture. That's because agile teams learn together as they create the product. Agile Behaviors for Learning and Working Together. Adaptability.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 10, 2020

That's brittleness in the system. This is any lifecycle, not just an agile approach.). Shorten Feedback Loops. Next, I suggested that the team find ways to shorten their feedback loops , in Part 2. I suggested that first, you see your feedback loops. (I You can release. We learn as we proceed.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops. We change the feedback loops. That's the point of all those feedback loops in the image above.). We change the drivers for the feedback loops. How Changing the Feedback Loop Drivers Might Work. Or finish a project.) Teams would not multitask.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2022

Integrated System Program. In this first image, the Integrated System Program, the rest of the product uses the Platform of Common Services as components. In Agile and Lean Program Management , I suggested two other views of large products. See Create Feedback Loops (Agile Approaches) for Hardware Products.).

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Feedback loops. Matt’s Mind The Product talk, Be in a Band, not an Orchestra: how to Grow an Agile Product Team. Management tools at 15Five and Trello. Review us on your podcast app so that we can use your feedback to be better. He joins us on the podcast to level up our retro game. Supporting a team.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2022

Most teams use agile approaches because they want some feedback, internal and external, to guide the future product development. If we don't need feedback, we don't need an agile approach. That feedback means we need product roadmaps to show options. Predictability vs. Option Discussion for Roadmaps.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 16, 2019

I suggested ways to think about more agile budgeting in part 1. My feedback loop is one month at the outside. ” Annual budgeting constrains the project portfolio ideas and work to a one-year feedback loop. ” Annual budgeting constrains the project portfolio ideas and work to a one-year feedback loop.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

The different types of product managers include the traditional product manager, the product owner, the growth product manager, the technical product manager, and the platform product manager. They must rally a team around a product’s vision and make sure the solution is viable from a business perspective. Product Manager.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In the business world, “vaporous” is an insightful description of the Toyota Production System. The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) idea is central to the lean / agile methodology Get feedback as soon as possible. A similar story plays out with the German Blitzkrieg in WWII and in many other business and military settings.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

The objective is to receive feedback and prioritize it internally against (1) company objectives (2)customer pains/experience (3) Quarterly Product OKRs and ship out solutions. . A feedback loop is: part of a system in which some portion (or all) of the system’s output is used as input for future operations.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

I started asking if you actually need an agile approach in Part 1 and noted the 4 big problems I see. Part 2 was why we need managers in an agile transformation. Part 4 was about how “Agile” is meaningless and “agile” is an adjective that needs to be applied to something. That would be resilient.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve, a software development manager, thought John was a “10x” developer. Steve—and the team—needed to see their system. Visualize the Team's System. One of the most important ways is to see the team's system. You might create an image of the feedback loops, as in Unearthing Your Project's Delays.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Some of my clients have struggled with their project governance as they move to agile approaches. See my series on Balance Innovation, Commitment, & Feedback Loops: Summary. This kind of measurement is antithetical to agile principles. Agile approaches allow us to do that. That productivity thing.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

I discussed the origins of the agile approaches in Part 5. In this post, I'll discuss how you can create an agile approach that fits your context. Why should you create your own agile approach? You deserve an agile approach that helps you achieve the business outcomes you need. Or, a product that's not software/hardware?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

This is one of the reasons Mark and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Your team might not need an agile approach. I addressed short feedback loops in Part 2. What Tools Does Your Team Need in its Workspace? We didn't list the various communication tools here. Who Has Licenses?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 8, 2018

Handover is a crucial process in the software lifecycle, and it may turn out to be costly and harsh unless you take the appropriate precautionary steps to make it smooth and downtime-free. The following article answer the question how to transfer software development works to another programming team. feel free to read Micha?’s

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 9, 2021

I tend to code and test in two modes: Experimentation in problem-solving: Imagining a solution. This part requires fast feedback loops in my brain and with colleagues. I need fast feedback loops to write fast. In the writing-down, I feel free to experiment with structure and content. Tinkering with design.

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DISQO

MAY 18, 2016

As organizations expand the scope of how they approach innovation, product consultants and user experience consultants have emerged as powerful forces in that initiative. Alpha recently teamed up with Product School to host an event featuring some of the most prominent product consultants in New York.

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DISQO

MAY 18, 2016

As organizations expand the scope of how they approach innovation, product consultants and user experience consultants have emerged as powerful forces in that initiative. Alpha recently teamed up with Product School to host an event featuring some of the most prominent product consultants in New York.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The teams miss the feedback loops so critical for an agile approach. Their agile transformation falls apart. Let's think about how to create agile projects with short feedback loops, not projects that look like waterfall. Prevent Agile Projects that Look Like Waterfall. They asked for feedback.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

See Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility and Unearthing Your Project's Delays.) Inventory might have value for physical products, but it rarely does for software products. In software, we want less WIP (Work in Progress), which is a form of inventory. And the managers received feedback on their decisions, too.

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DISQO

OCTOBER 24, 2019

It’s survival of the fittest for agencies and management consulting firms in 2019. Every one of the ‘Big Four’ consulting firms known for their accounting prowess are now seen as experts in digital. What many savvy consulting leaders continue to realize is that business models are evolving faster than ever.

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DISQO

OCTOBER 24, 2019

It’s survival of the fittest for agencies and management consulting firms in 2019. Every one of the ‘Big Four’ consulting firms known for their accounting prowess are now seen as experts in digital. What many savvy consulting leaders continue to realize is that business models are evolving faster than ever.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 22, 2020

Even if you use an agile approach, you still can't create an impossible project. Or, you need to experiment some more with smaller feedback loops to understand what to deliver. These folks had a software-only product, so their agile approach helped them finish work. The teams chose to: Use an agile approach.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops. These problems and questions are all about delays in the system's feedback loops. It's time to see these feedback loops, starting with the team. How Long Are Your Team's Feedback Loops? Product-Only Feedback Loop. Roadmap Feedback Loops.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 9, 2020

In the agile and lean communities, we talk a lot about transparency. This image is the transparency principle we used in From Chaos to Distributed Agile Teams. And, a much more agile organization. What do agile managers do? I wrote a lot about this in Create Your Successful Agile Project.). People Solve Problems.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

Sacrificing for speed —In an agile world there isn’t always tolerance for deliberative research and decision making. Focusing on technology —Technology and its implementation are the means to an end. If you don’t have the correct “end” in mind, then it doesn’t matter how great the technology may be.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 18, 2021

They think that the agile tools they use, such as boards, offer a strategic advantage. So they build or customize their tools. However, they adopt or “install” an agile framework or process without customization. Instead, agile organizations need flexibility, not rigidity. You likely compete on price.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 6, 2020

Yes, the product team should consult with a variety of stakeholders, preferably from both within and outside the immediate project team. Understand the importance of the continuous product feedback loop. Most product management tools for documentation have this feature in built. Use tools like Jira , Asana, Trello, etc.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. Can you create an agile culture for your team even if you can't change how the organization works? 1,2 and so on.

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Usersnap

JULY 26, 2020

Most developers have no clue about how testing is actually done, and how valuable the understanding of software testing basics can be for developers who really want to excel in their careers. I owe a large amount of the success I have had in my career as a software developer to my background in testing. Click To Tweet. Click To Tweet.

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