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    How Understanding Profit Streams Can Get a Team More Engaged

    My Scrum Team Doesn’t Give a ____, what should I do? How Understanding Profit StreamsTMCan Get a Team More Engaged ... Read More
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    The Profit Implications of Your Value Exchange Model

    Do you understand your value exchange model? The economic value of a software-enabled solution is the benefits a customer... Read More
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    Giving Thanks for Portfolio Management

    This Thanksgiving – Give Thanks to Portfolio Management… I have years of fond memories of Thanksgiving Dinner. As a... Read More
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    Why Do Product Managers Fail to Increase Profit?

    Are you a product manager and wondering “How can I increase profit?” Well first. It’s important to ask, “What is profit?”... Read More
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    Using Customer Segmentation and Term Renewal to Increase Profit

    In the first post in our Recession-Proofing Your Profit series, I shared the basic structure of Term Renewal Acceleration,... Read More
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    Accelerate Renewals to Prepare for Economic Headwinds

    Use Term Renewal Acceleration to create sustainable profits. Current economic indicators are unfavorable due to a... Read More
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    Defining Value in Agile

    In an Agile context, defining value isn’t necessarily about calculating return on investment or measuring profit margins.... Read More
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    Decision Rights Framework: Better Decisions, Faster

    Two years ago we realized the need to clearly define decision rights for our growing company. Decisions that demanded speed... Read More
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    Relative Estimation with Reference Stories

    Previously we’ve analyzed why Relative Estimation is faster and more reliable than the most common method for Agile team... Read More
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    The Right Way to Do Customer Interviews

    A business cannot be Agile — nor have much of a chance at success generally — if it doesn’t understand its customers. While... Read More
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    Supercharge Your Product Roadmap with an Opportunity Backlog

    Despite being a fixture of product management for over twenty-five years, roadmaps do not get a lot of love from product... Read More
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    Role of the Software Architect

    Clients and students in the process of adopting Agile development practices frequently ask me to discuss the role of the... Read More
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    Accelerated Learning Fundamentals

    Accelerated Learning (AL) is a training approach that focuses on whole learner experience to maximize the learner’s... Read More
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    Agile Coach: Champion, Catalyst, Capacitor, Coach

    Champion: A person who fights or argues for a cause or on behalf of someone else. Catalyst: A substance that increases the... Read More
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    Customer Interviews: Analyzing the Data

    She analyzes synergies, or synergizes analogies… or some such thing.—Edward Norton (as “Father Brian Finn”), Keeping the... Read More