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Middle Management Guideline: Only Plan for as Long As Your Management Can Commit

Johanna Rothman

See Create Successful Schedules: Three Tips to Rolling Wave Planning and the series that starts with Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 1, Think in Feature Sets. The couple of times the teams had no obvious next project, they chose to finish their unfinished work: insufficient test automation and those irritating defects.

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490: Product Process: Fourth of Seven Knowledge Areas of Product Mastery – with Chad McAllister, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

– Stage-Gate and Agile Stage-Gate are popular product development processes that manage risk and incorporate Agile elements. Special Guidelines: Covers team communication and accountability, reporting requirements, project expenditure responsibilities, external agencies, and product quality or launch constraints.

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How To Find 100+ Free Beta Users for Beta Testing In 2023

Usersnap

Are you ready to take your product from concept to triumph through effective beta testing? The journey from idea to success hinges on the crucial stage of beta testing. In this article, we’ll unveil the secrets of beta testing and unveil game-changing strategies to redefine your approach to product launches.

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Scaled Agile – Why? When? How?

Modus Create

Agile at Scale, or Scaled Agile, is all the rage! When and who should implement Scaled Agile? Scaled Agile is a way for organizations with many teams to plan, coordinate, and track work on large initiatives. In this blog post, we’ll review why, when, and how organizations should consider adopting Scaled Agile.

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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. Over those 10 years, the technical teams created more robust testing and deployment scripts. As the teams used agile approaches, they requested more and more frequent deployments. What about guidelines?

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Agile User Stories Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide with Cardboard

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Want to get better at writing Agile user stories? Maybe you’re a Scrum Master, Agile coach, or a member of a product team. In this guide, we’ll cover the basics: what are Agile user stories, how do you write them, and how to use them effectively. Let’s take your Agile user stories to the next level.

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 5: Summary

Johanna Rothman

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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