Modus Create

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The world of consulting is often associated with truckloads of jargon. Today, let’s simplify one such concept – digital transformation consulting. What Is Digital Transformation Consulting? What Is Digital Transformation Consulting? What Are the Four Areas of Digital Transformation Consulting?

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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. Phase 1: Due Diligence and Discovery. Due diligence comes first but has its origins in other engagements Modus has conducted over the years.

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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. See Who's Playing Agile Schedule Games? ). Because every person started their own story, they had to wait for each other for code review. No More Agile Death Marches.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

Did you know you can maximize your chances of achieving desired business outcomes by combining DevOps with an Agile transformation? When you hear “Business Outcomes,” “DevOps,” and/or Agile transformation” – what comes to mind? Agile Transformation. Agile transformations and DevOps initiatives are complementary.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

Brief description of the problem at a recent client: Person A checked in code that broke an “unrelated” part of the system. I'll call this checking in code in Email that broke Search. They had one piece of feedback: the checkin broke “unrelated” code. Part 1 was about individual work. I admit it.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

UX studio is one of the global innovation design consulting firms focusing on UX design, research, and strategic consulting. We researched the top design consulting firms’ competency level, experience, and portfolio to define the most reliable design thinking companies you can trust and partner with in 2021. UX studio .

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

TL;DR: Creating an Agile Community of Practice Creating an agile community of practice helps winning hearts and minds within the organization as it provides authenticity to the agile transition?—?signaling Join the 25th Hands-on Agile meetup on August 20, 2020, to explore the virtual Ecocycle Planning.

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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

(PRWEB) JUNE 01, 2020 – Modus Create, a disruptive consulting, product strategy and Agile development firm, today announced the release of Modus Security, a packaged product that helps organizations identify and address threats to their intellectual property and private information.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 15, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. This part is about how people want a recipe, The Answer, for how to get better at “Agile.” ” Before we can address what an answer might be, your need to know your why for an agile approach. Can “Agile” deliver on that?

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Isn't every iterative and incremental approach an agile approach? We often hear agile approaches are a mindset. An agile approach requires a change in culture at the team level, at the portfolio level, and in management. Agile approaches change what we discuss, how we work together, and what we reward. Release trains.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Yes, the premise of my Agile and Lean Program Management book.) I have never seen those three conditions in any non-agile project, but that could be my experience and not universal. The reason the requirements “phase” lasts so long is that the team continues to learn through Analysis, Design, Code, and Integration.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 10, 2020

This is any lifecycle, not just an agile approach.). I used the image from Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation as a way to think about the feedback loop realities in a serial approach.). (I I recommended various ideas with “testing” in their names (TDD, BDD, ATDD). Shorten Feedback Loops.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 28, 2018

Many new-to-agile teams use some form of iteration-based agile approach. Back in Time You Spend in Agile Meetings (near the bottom of the post), I enumerated all the possible meetings. I suggested the team review its WIP limits and think about limiting the WIP for the entire team. Often, in the form of Scrum.

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Centercode

APRIL 2, 2019

I started out at a semiconductor company, doing a mix of hardware and software testing on Linux and Unix. Then I moved on to telecom, military simulation software, cloud SaaS, consulting and finally healthcare. ” Part of what we are going to talk about is how to create test strategies for an Agile world.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. It is important to note that most PM job postings ask for prior PM experience.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. It is important to note that most PM job postings ask for prior PM experience.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Alternatives like Userpilot or other agile digital adoption platforms come with the necessary elements needed to create a contextual, personalized user experience. UserGuiding is a no-code tool for user onboarding. That said, it's not that agile digital adoption platform as one might expect. UserGuiding reviews.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Since there was no active grooming or planning session with the engineers, daily standups played the role of requirement review meetings. Any agile practitioner may recognize these as poor practices and it is surprising how easily a team can succumb when operating in a high pressure, reactive environment. Long standups.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen is a practical guide on implementing the Lean Product methodology based on years of Olsen’s consulting work. out of 5 stars. 5 out of 5.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

  They are coming off customer calls, strategy sessions, renewal discussions, marketing automation planning sessions, compliance reviews, and industry analyst briefings that highlight improvements that must be made.  ”)  Building software is a complex intellectual team exercise, not simply reading specs or typing. 

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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. See Agile Program Measurements to Visualize and Track Progress and Measure Cycle Time for my suggestions of what to measure.

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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. Then, a solid plan comes in handy?

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 9, 2021

When I write down, I have the same creative feelings as when I used to write code or tests. I tend to code and test in two modes: Experimentation in problem-solving: Imagining a solution. Writing code and tests. Assessment of the outputs: Code or test review. Assessment of the outputs: Code or test review.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Too many teams have a built-in dependency creator—code review. When we take time to perform code review after we write the code (or the tests), we create dependencies between the people on the team. Instead, we can consider a more holistic approach to code review and abolish those dependencies.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

He is the co-author of the award-winning book Lean UX and the Harvard Business Review Press book Sense & Respond. He works as a coach, consultant, and keynote speaker helping companies bridge the gaps between business agility, digital transformation, product management, and human-centred design. Product Leadership.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 2, 2022

Teams don't refactor as they proceed and they get bloated code. Those features need more tests and more review. Now, their technical debt has come due. The post See and Resolve Team Dependencies, Part 3: Some Component Teams, Some Feature Teams appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders. I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2022

The rest of the code base changed, the environment has changed, and the team has changed. These are delays due to management decision time.). Marketing needed to change what they wanted, the code changed, our entire team changed. See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.) We had to restart everything.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 4, 2020

A Remote Daily Scrum with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. Consultants and the consultee have the initial conversation; then, the consultee turns around on his or her chair for the consulting phase.

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UX Planet

MARCH 7, 2024

This limitation affects not just the quality of design but also the efficiency and innovation of the team, leading to higher costs over time due to inefficiencies and the potential need for external consultations or interventions. In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, agility and efficiency are key to staying ahead.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

About the author Steve Krug is an independent web usability consultant and author of several UX design books. Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug You can think of this book as a follow-up to “Don't Make Me Think” by the same author (we reviewed it earlier). "Rocket Get the book.

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Modus Create

JUNE 30, 2021

Emerging technologies, prioritization of workforce culture, and the need for shorter, more cost-effective engagements are making legacy consulting models obsolete. The rise of digital transformation has coincided with the decline in management consulting. For the longest time, consulting was synonymous with management consulting.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. We’d love any feedback you have for us, so please go ahead and share your thoughts – rate and review The Product Experience on your podcast app so that we can make it even better!

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2022

A colleague unfamiliar with lifecycles or agility asked, “How can we use sprints in this approach?” See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.). Several events, such as “Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective” (quoted from the Scrum Guide).

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Aplana is a privately held software development company that has been on the market for 20 years. Its offices are located in different countries, including the UK, US, and Germany for sales operations and Ukraine, Russia, Belarus for skilled software engineering teams. . Wandr studio. Echo & Co. Design First. Fuzzy Math.

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