Jim Ewel

Overwhelmed Marketer

Feeling Overwhelmed? How Agile Can Help

Introduction Are you feeling overwhelmed as a marketer? Marketing is a fast-paced profession. The digital era has exponentially increased the number of channels, campaigns, and metrics that marketers must manage. When overwhelmed, even the most seasoned marketing veterans can find themselves struggling to keep up. But what if there was a way to streamline your

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Jobs to be done

An Alternative Approach to User Stories for B2B Agile Marketers

Introduction User stories are very useful for marketers who want to ensure that their deliverables are customer-centric: they identify the audience, what the audience wants to get done, and why. You can read about user stories here, here, and here. How do you get started writing user stories? Most people start with the deliverable and

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Managing stakeholder relationships

Managing Stakeholder Relationships in Agile Marketing

Introduction Agile marketers who manage stakeholder relationships successfully are more likely to satisfy these internal customers and deliver better outcomes for the organization. Managing stakeholder relationships requires identifying the key stakeholders, being clear on who manages the relationships, understanding when to get them involved, and ensuring transparency, regular communication, and responsiveness. Let’s take a look

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Achieving Better Marketing Outcomes

Introduction Traditional marketing begins with business objectives and develops marketing campaigns to deliver results. Outcome-based marketing starts with customer outcomes – defining what the customer is trying to achieve, designing customer experiences around those outcomes, and achieving business outcomes as a result of delighting customers. Traditional marketing tends to be short-term focused; Outcome-based marketing tends

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Heart of Agile

The Heart of Agile

In 2016, Alistair Cockburn, one of the signers of the Agile Manifesto for Software Development, wrote a piece called “The Heart of Agile.” If you haven’t read this 4-page document, I encourage you to do so. Alistair felt that Agile had lost its way. Agile needed to get back to core principles, and he identified

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