Dean Leffingwell author of Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise (Agile Software Development Series) was the guest on the Businss901 podcast. After reading this book, I thought it was an outstanding contribution to improving the agile team and environment. One Amazon reviewer categorized it as “The organization of the Read More …
This seems an appropriate post this week since there was big hullabaloo about a certain App that claimed certain features and did not deliver. If they intended it to be a minimum viable product (Mvp), let’s just say there was more MINIMUM than viable in the product. Though it was discovered and bantered about the Read More …
Geoff Bellman co-author of Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Resultswas my guest on the Business901 Podcast. In this book, Geoff and co-author Kathleen Ryan reveal that people instinctively sense when a group experience is something special, something different from the ordinary, something that surpasses their expectations in a positive, remarkable, and hard-to-describe way. Read More …
In a previous post, Identifying your Lean sales and marketing teams, I discussed the other roles in the Lean Sales and Marketing Process. This is part of the SALES PDCA framework that we use before starting the PDCA IMPROVEMENT LOOP. The role of Team Coordinator (TC) is the key person in the Lean Sales and Read More …
When I use the SALES PDCA approach in Lean Marketing, I emphasize the use of sales and marketing teams. It is one of the underlying principles that is needed. Sales has operated for so many years based on the idea of the individual salesperson calling on “his” accounts and the organization reinforcing this structure through Read More …
This is a transcription of the Business901 podcast, Using Little Ideas to achieve Big Things podcast with Peter Sims the author of the book, Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries. Peter Sims is an author, speaker, and entrepreneur. He was the coauthor with Bill George of the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek Read More …