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To Fix Your OKRs – Go Back to First (Familiar) Principles

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OKRs aim to help you execute effectively on what matters most (your strategy), while overcoming silos, politics and turf wars , the ongoing grind (aka whirlwind ), and other management challenges. Figuring out the right Cadence . The right cadence also provides an opportunity to reinforce/communicate strategic priorities and focus.

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How Usable Working Products Are Your Ultimate Weapon Against Risks

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Feedback loops, value delivery, and engineering excellence are your protection in agile product delivery. Conclusion: Be Agile, Truly So create a usable working product on a regular cadence, close the feedback loops, and leverage as much automation as possible. Use documentation as part of your strategy but just enough to get buy.

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Agency client retention guide (with 8 strategies and expert tips)

Resource Guru

But it does mean a balanced strategy that leans on strong retention practices matters. But that’s hardly the only benefit of establishing a strong agency client retention strategy. AdAge cites a perceived lack of strategy as yet another big reason clients decide to stop working with ad agencies.

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How to Set and Achieve Effective Sprint Goals

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Teams can amalgamate information on the product's strategic direction, the product owner's current tactical direction, and ongoing engineering aspects. Assessment and Planning Sprint Goal - "By the end of this sprint, we will have identified all dependencies, potential challenges, and the migration strategy for each application."

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Building bonds: A founder’s take on our annual team retreat

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We experienced thoughtful presentations from across the team, collaboratively formulated cross-functional strategies, and, most importantly, aligned our efforts toward a unified company direction. Our engineering team had a break-out session to discuss how they could increase the cadence of feature releases. The result?

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From Order Taker to Opportunity Maker…IT’s Digital Transition for Driving the Business

Leading Agile

Professions such as Medicine, Law, Beauty, Teaching, Transportation, Security, Accounting, Engineering, and Project Management all have one thing in common; certifications and internal governance. Think of all the breakthrough advancements in just the last 20 years in the medicine, transportation, accounting, and engineering professions.

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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

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To prevail in today’s game of an accelerated innovation-based competition—software is eating the world—, every organization needs to acquire a holistic understanding of an agile product creation process: A vision leads to a strategy that (probably) results in a portfolio of products (and services). The engineers and I handle customer support.