BrainMates

JULY 2, 2025

Tracks progress at both detailed and executive levels Automates reminders, handoffs, and status updates Hosts shared assets and enables feedback loops Aligns everyone around a unified timeline for launch Weekly cross-functional syncs allow teams to discuss dependencies, unblock issues, and adjust plans as needed.

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Modus Create

MAY 8, 2025

The rise of intelligent product development powered by AI and now agentic workflowscalls for a new kind of operating model: one that is agile, continuous, insight-driven, and AI-augmented. Through modular, strategic investments, starting with a data readiness assessment and aligned discovery loops.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

By responding to customer reviews, you can demonstrate your customer-centric orientation and close the feedback loop. Product feedback software: Trustpilot. And once the requests are recorded, it keeps users up to date about their status, helping teams close the feedback loop. Product feedback software: UserVoice.

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Usersnap

MAY 14, 2025

To help you build smarter (not just faster), we sat down with Matt LeMay – author of Agile for Everybody product discovery evangelist, and creator of the One Page / One Hour method – to learn how to keep discovery grounded in real business impact. Use interviews, surveys, user testing, and more.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2021

When I think about agile approaches to work, I think about how fast we can change and the cost of those changes. That's why an agile approach with deliverables every day or week doesn't fit with some kinds of projects, such as events. Consider the Continuum of Feedback Loops and Decisions. Let's start with the team.

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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

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

MARCH 5, 2020

This part is about shortening feedback loops. They had one piece of feedback: the checkin broke “unrelated” code. It was time to see their feedback loops. See Your Feedback Loops. Every project (or effort) has at least one feedback loop. How Long Are Your Feedback Loops?

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 25, 2022

” (The team feedback loop is the inside of the onion for how agile the organization can be. See Multiple Short Feedback Loops Support Innovation.). The post Shorten Team Feedback Loops with These Three Questions to Increase Throughput appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2020

In Costs of an Agile Approach for Hardware Products , I suggested that an iteration-based approach for hardware was too expensive. Agile software teams are cross-functional and interdependent. Many agile software teams have somewhere between four and seven people. Feedback Loops Drive Collaboration. And, with whom?

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 3, 2019

I started this series discussing the issue of the various product-based roles in an agile organization. And, batching the product planning in one-quarter chunks doesn't encourage us to reduce the feedback loop duration. Back when we started using agile approaches, many teams worked directly with their customers.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops Many of my middle-management and senior leadership clients want certainty about future work. Does that sound like an agile team to you? However, managers don't create features as agile teams do. Agile teams don't assume they make a final product the first time out.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Do you need feedback loops so you can: Cancel the project at any time (to manage schedule and cost risks. Frequent releasing offers us feedback in many ways: Know that we're solving the right problem. Frequent releases help us manage risk with shorter feedback loops. Why You Might Want an Agile Approach.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 18, 2021

They think that the agile tools they use, such as boards, offer a strategic advantage. However, they adopt or “install” an agile framework or process without customization. Instead, agile organizations need flexibility, not rigidity. Commodity businesses don't need agility for product development.

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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. See Multiple Short Feedback Loops Support Innovation for more information.).

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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

JUNE 24, 2021

He thought agile approaches would work to “meet” and “enforce” deadlines. Even when we use a non-agile approach , schedule variance doesn't make sense. Schedule variance assumes we don't have feedback loops inside the project, or that we don't learn anything. Why do you have deadlines?

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

See Create Your Successful Agile Project for how to use cycle time to reduce the time you spend on estimation.). If your team has to change what they do one month or six weeks into a quarter's estimation or commitment, the product feedback loop is too long. Product Feedback Loops are Different than Project Feedback Loops.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

TL; DR: Agile Laws and Remote Agile On numerous occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. In that respect, the current issues many distributed teams face may also act as accelerants to become more agile.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

Your planning feedback loops can be longer. We need short feedback loops in the project/program to see where we are and make small adjustments. Even if you do encounter technical problems, agile approaches help manage those problems with short project feedback loops. We know what we have to do.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Still, effective, quick decision-making is a skill we crave and can increase agility, energy, and momentum within any team. . The second challenge is implementing a feedback loop. Rapid learning and course correction is a key part of an agile decision-making process. We learn far more by studying the decision itself”.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Are you trying to make an agile framework or approach work? Maybe you've received a mandate to “go agile.” Or, maybe you're trying to fit an agile framework into your current processes—and you've got a mess. I've seen plenty of problems when people try to adopt “agile” wholesale.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

Many of my clients are trying to use short feedback loops in agile approaches. The more need for product innovation and change, the shorter the feedback loops need to be. I wrote about this in Create Your Successful Agile Project.) High Need for Product Innovation and Change.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 11, 2022

However, the more often we deliver in short feedback loops, the more often we can make strategic decisions. The more often we iterate strategically, the more we exhibit business agility. The shorter the feedback loops, the easier it is to use what we finished to make a new decision about the next bit of work at all levels.

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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

JULY 25, 2018

I’m working on my roadmapping talk for Agile 2018. I finally had the transforming idea about how to position the talk: Roadmapping and product planning are about feedback loops. The shorter the feedback loop, the faster and more often we can learn. How little can you do to get some feedback on the product?

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The leaders and change agents we meet are eager to ensure their Agile transformation avoids hitting rocks or running aground. We aim to address those obstacles in this article by offering three Agile transformation OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) for you to consider. The First Agile transformation OKR – “Leader Engagement”.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 18, 2021

As teams learn how to work in new ways during an Agile transformation, an organization may consider adopting Agile values in departments outside of IT to support the initiative. In an Agile Uprising Podcast Agile and HR – BFF’s? In an Agile Uprising Podcast Agile and HR – BFF’s?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2024

I started this series by discussing why managers didn't perceive the value of agile coaches and Scrum Masters in Part 1, resulting in layoffs.) That's why I then asked people to review their product-oriented domain expertise and agile-focused domain expertise in Part 3. Especially, Agile is Not a Silver Bullet.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 11, 2021

Worse, most career ladders assume we can assess what a person can do, not on their contributions to an agile team. That means most career ladders don't fit agile teams or an agile culture. Instead of individual achievements, we can reward the types of agile leadership we want to see in agile teams. Ask for help.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

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? Especially since teams now had these levers, from the iterative and incremental approaches: Prototype something for fast feedback. Feature-Driven development.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. That's why the duration of the internal feedback loops is so important. I used the image above in Multiple Short Feedback Loops Support Innovation. Show them your feedback loops and your cycle time.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile has been shown to shorten time-to-market, increase quality, instill predictability, improve customer satisfaction, and create an overall happier working culture. Agile Transformation involves all levels of the organization and applies Lean-Agile principles to business processes, practices, tools, operations, and culture.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. Team-based “agile” is not enough.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I have a new book: Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. I wrote it because I'm concerned about what I see in too many supposedly agile teams: Crazy-long backlogs and roadmaps. A focus on a “standard” agile approach, regardless of how much agility is in that approach.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2019

Establishing agile and product culture is critical to us becoming a modern organisation that continuously improves. Supporting their development, helping them to think and act as agile and product champions. I also defined a vision: Agile product management culture is the norm and is adding measurable value to Parkinson’s UK.

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