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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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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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Build Team Resilience Summary (Part 4)

Johanna Rothman

That's brittleness in the system. If you only have one tester, the team collaborates to test when that one tester is busy. 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

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

The Product Coalition

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Boston Consulting Group estimates that 70% of digital business transformation projects fail. Specialists decide what value and basic features should be implemented first to test the idea.

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17 SaaS Customer Success Best Practices to Improve Customer Retention

Userpilot

Sending in-app surveys to gather relevant feedback and iterate your strategy. Encouraging referrals and reviews to expand word-of-mouth. Survey your users, review your support tickets, and examine your usage data to see what’s causing friction and pushing customers away. Inviting users to leave a review on G2.

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We Made a Mobile App in Six Weeks. Here’s How You Can Too.

Modus Create

In recent years, our consultants have helped several healthcare organizations shift their focus to preventive care and patient outcomes. Why the Ishihara Test? The Ishihara Test, created by Japanese ophthalmology researcher Shinobu Ishihara in 1917, remains the most popular way to test for colorblindness. Set a Goal.

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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.