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Building an Effective Product Feedback Loop

The Product Guy

The objective is to receive feedback and prioritize it internally against (1) company objectives (2)customer pains/experience (3) Quarterly Product OKRs and ship out solutions. . A feedback loop is: part of a system in which some portion (or all) of the system’s output is used as input for future operations. It’s cyclical.

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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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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. What kind of feedback loops does a hardware team need? The question I have is which feedback loops does this team need? See Team Size Matters, Reprise.).

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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? If your team has to change what they do one month or six weeks into a quarter's estimation or commitment, the product feedback loop is too long.

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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. However, I don't do long consulting contracts—by design. But most of my business focuses on coaching, workshops, or consulting. The code and tests are relatively easy to change.

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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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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. .”