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Create Feedback Loops (Agile Approaches) for Hardware Products

Johanna Rothman

Most of the hardware teams I've worked with (inside an organization and as a consultant) have fewer people. Feedback Loops Drive Collaboration. And, because they can demo each feature, they might need to reconnect every day if the story/feature takes longer than one day. See Team Size Matters, Reprise.). And, with whom?

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How WIP Insights Allow Us to Revisit Brooks’ Law About Adding People to a Team

Johanna Rothman

” It depends on how your lifecycle manages feedback loops and learning, how collaborative the team is, and how much WIP the team has. Each Lifecycle Manages Feedback Loops Differently Brooks wrote the original version of The Mythical Man-Month in 1975, based on the 1960s IBM 360 project. .”

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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. The team needs very short feedback loops from the time they create the experiment to the time they receive feedback.

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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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17 SaaS Customer Success Best Practices to Improve Customer Retention

Userpilot

Teams of customer success are responsible for building playbooks , managing churn , streamlining onboarding, enhancing customer experiences, driving account expansion , and gathering feedback. Offering personalized demos to show the product’s value and encourage deeper engagement. Book a demo to give it a try.

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Customers, Internal Delivery, and Trust

Johanna Rothman

Nor do the teams demo on a regular basis. The teams miss the feedback loops so critical for an agile approach. Let's think about how to create agile projects with short feedback loops, not projects that look like waterfall. That followed the test/fix loop above. Their agile transformation falls apart.

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Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation

Johanna Rothman

So, let's assume the team spends a total of 4 hours planning, retrospecting, demoing, all that non-creation time out of the 40 hours the team works. (I I would add demoing in as value creation, but I'm not sure how accountants categorize feedback loops. Then we designed, coded, integrated, and tested. Yeah, right.