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Build Team Resilience: Shorten Feedback Loops (Part 2)

Johanna Rothman

This part is about shortening feedback loops. Brief description of the problem at a recent client: Person A checked in code that broke an “unrelated” part of the system. They had one piece of feedback: the checkin broke “unrelated” code. It was time to see their feedback loops.

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Build Team Resilience Summary (Part 4)

Johanna Rothman

That's brittleness in the system. Shorten Feedback Loops. Next, I suggested that the team find ways to shorten their feedback loops , in Part 2. I suggested that first, you see your feedback loops. (I I recommended various ideas with “testing” in their names (TDD, BDD, ATDD).

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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. That's why there's feedback.

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The Psychology Behind Progress Bars and Their Impact on User Behavior in Onboarding

Userpilot

A progress bar serves as a visual cue, signifying that your request is in the system, and the application is diligently working to fulfill the action you’ve asked for. Gradual increments in progress trigger a positive feedback loop, motivating users to complete subsequent steps.

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Who is the Product Operations Manager?

ProductPlan

Implementing or optimizing systems and processes. Implementing or Optimizing Systems and Processes. Even the best systems and processes need a champion to ensure they run smoothly. A product operations manager can optimize the product team’s systems and processes. Some of this work bleeds into systems and processes.

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Technology Gets Old One Day at a Time: Broken Blog Feeds and What You Missed

Johanna Rothman

Not because I didn't have comments, but because at the time , we needed a separate commenting system. The person I hired could not export the comments from the other system and integrate them into WordPress. As far as either of us could tell, the comments were captive in the old system. See LearnWardleyMapping for more details.

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Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test before Investing in Ideas

The Product Coalition

Boston Consulting Group estimates that 70% of digital business transformation projects fail. improve” feedback loop. Developers find out the opinion of users and implement vital features, release a product and evaluate the feedback, reviews, and comments of the audience. Why should you invest in MVP development?