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How Agile Managers Use Uncertainty to Create Better Decisions Faster

Johanna Rothman

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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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 3, Incremental Lifecycles

Johanna Rothman

Teams can get some feedback from one feature set to inform the next set—but that's not a primary lever. Of course, there are feedback loops here, too: Notice that we expect feedback from later features back to the previous features. Staged Delivery has feedback loops, too. Release what you have.

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Why We Continue Our Quest for Silver Bullets

Johanna Rothman

Agile” as a way to do much more work in much less time. (NO! That's because they don't have unplanned feedback loops as in the image on the left. That means integrating code review and testing as part of the team's collaboration. Agile approaches work, especially if you focus on reducing cycle time.

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Jobs To Be Done in Product Design

UX Planet

Storyboarding in UX Design Test value propositions: Practice customer interviews to test different value propositions and understand which resonates most with your target audience. Build-measure-learn cycle: Develop prototypes of your solutions and test them with users to see how well they address the identified jobs and pain points.

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Agile Laws & Distributed Teams

The Product Coalition

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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Metrics in Agile: How to Effectively Measure Your Transformation Journey

Agile Velocity

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. In this article, we explore healthy ways for your organization to use metrics to gain meaningful insights into the outcomes of your experiments as you and your teams pursue the craft of creative knowledge work during an Agile transformation.

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Combining DevOps and Agile Transformations to Achieve Business Outcomes

Agile Velocity

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.