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Create Feedback Loops (Agile Approaches) for Hardware Products

Johanna Rothman

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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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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Build Team Resilience: Shorten Feedback Loops (Part 2)

Johanna Rothman

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. Automated Tests Are About Feedback.

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Top 10 Challenges in Today’s Business Landscape and Why Agile Offers Solutions

Agile Velocity

Agile training and transformation offer a beacon of hope, guiding organizations through these turbulent times with practices that enhance adaptability, customer satisfaction, and team morale. Here’s a look at the top 10 challenges business leaders and teams face today and how Agile principles can address them.

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Balance Innovation, Commitment, & Feedback Loops: Summary

Johanna Rothman

What if you can complete a feature set in a couple of weeks, and really have it be done, build and test automation, and any user documentation or internal documentation complete? See Create Your Successful Agile Project for how to use cycle time to reduce the time you spend on estimation.). Make the stories very small and count them.

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

Johanna Rothman

Of course, there are feedback loops here, too: Notice that we expect feedback from later features back to the previous features. However, if we have “bad” feedback from the last (or interim feature), we don't have the “Kiss of Death” as we did in the serial or iterative lifecycles.

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Balance Innovation, Commitment, & Feedback Loops: Part 1: High Innovation Products

Johanna Rothman

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.