Johanna Rothman

JUNE 5, 2023

That's because each project offers different value over the product's lifetime. See Product Roles, Part 4: Product Orientation and the Role of Projects for images of why we want ever-increasing product value, but why we might space the projects out.) However, today, I realized there are also product risks.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 24, 2021

In Part 1 and 2 of this series, I wrote about how an agile approach might offer strategic benefits. And because an agile approach changes your culture, I said the agile approach was part of your strategy. So let's ask this question: Can any tool—agile or otherwise—offer you a strategic advantage? (I

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2021

As I've been speaking about the Modern Management Made Easy books, people ask these questions: We're pretty good with our agile approach. These people tell me their career ladder doesn't work to enhance agility. Organizations reward people as individuals—but agility demands collaboration. Became a consultant.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

More of my clients say they want business agility. Yet, we don't share a common definition of business agility. Actions matter when it comes to business agility. Since managers create and refine the culture, they can create an environment that supports business agility. An Environment that Supports Business Agility.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 9, 2021

I said that when we focus on individual achievements and deliverables, we ignore the agile system of work. Worse, when we reward individual achievements we prevent an agile culture. That's because agile teams learn together as they create the product. Agile Behaviors for Learning and Working Together.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 17, 2018

I’ve been pair-writing a book with Mark Kilby , From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver. We’ve been working on this book for a year. We reflected a little on our success to date: We both want the best possible book. It’s much better because of our collaboration.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The original signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development wanted to solve these specific problems: How can we: Bring more adaptability to software development? Before the Manifesto, we had plenty of books and articles that discussed more lightweight approaches. That's just books. The Context for the Manifesto.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2019

I spoke at Agile 2019 last week. Here are my thoughts and where I think the “agile” industry is headed. Problems I See with “Agile” Here's a summary of problems I saw last week: Too many people think “agile” will solve all their problems. Do You Need an Agile Approach?

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

I discussed the origins of the agile approaches in Part 5. In this post, I'll discuss how you can create an agile approach that fits your context. Why should you create your own agile approach? Because your context is unique to you, your team, project, product, and culture. Remember, an agile approach starts with a team.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 30, 2022

I have some feedback on the book that I need to integrate. I want to address the next 3 chapters, because they're the platform for the next part of the book. In addition, I also have a new task: get one book ready for another distributor. In addition, I also have a new task: get one book ready for another distributor. (If

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

I had a great time on the Agile Coffee podcast, 75. How we might ascribe value to seeing customer situations vs sitting in the office working on the product. We discussed several ideas from the Modern Management Made Easy books: How performance reviews make an agile culture difficult, if not impossible.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

I'm rewriting/reorganizing the Lead an Innovative Organization book. Let me address a little about business agility and innovation. Business agility allows us to create a culture where we plan to change. Too many people think business agility is about the ability to do more of the same, faster. Manage for effectiveness.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

Are you looking for work, either as a consultant or a candidate? And candidates and consultants invest time that has no perceived payoff for them. I agree—hiring managers do need to assess a candidate's or consultant's skills. (I So what can a candidate or consultant do to show their skills without working for free?

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. (I I didn't like what I saw at the Agile 2019 conference.) This part is about what “Agile” or “agile” means. I understand that people want what they perceive as the value “Agile” will bring them. Why a Manifesto?

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This excerpt is from the Project Lifecycles book, almost ready for release. No one cares about a team's agility—with the possible exception of the team itself. But managers and customers do care about better products. The managers care when the team can release those products—that's why managers use capitalization metrics.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Some of my clients have struggled with their project governance as they move to agile approaches. This kind of measurement is antithetical to agile principles. We can see it in an agile approach, because the more time we spend estimating up front, the longer it takes us to deliver that first increment of value.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For example, I'm doing a webinar on November 30 where the value is primarily promotion for my new book. See Project Lifecycle Workshop: How to Manage Project Risks to Release Successful Products.) I said this in the Successful Indepentent Consulting book : People die of exposure—both hot and cold.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

A total of about 1500 words on the book plus one image. The book distributor work is complete. All this collaboration and learning together means the team shares its product development. If you're a product leader, you need a product value team. If your managers scale these ideas, they can also become more agile.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As a consultant, I create many kinds of information products: both writing and speaking. That allows me the most flexibility in my product development. However, too many organizations don't differentiate between what they need to ship as experiments and when to finalize the product. I use that feedback to build more MVPs.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 2, 2024

Given our current staffing, we can afford to fund these specific projects for some amount of time before those projects release their products and services. Too often, very large organizations have divisions or departments that do not coalesce around a single coherent product. See Consider Product Options with Minimum Outcomes.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

I started asking if you actually need an agile approach in Part 1 and noted the 4 big problems I see. Part 2 was why we need managers in an agile transformation. Part 4 was about how “Agile” is meaningless and “agile” is an adjective that needs to be applied to something. That would be resilient.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 31, 2022

I still want to write more in the book. I don't have just one product for my business. And I'm not a team working on just one feature set or a product. Those purchase orders are much larger sums of money than an online workshop or revenue from a book. At some point today, I plan to upload the videos to teachable.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

” These people claim there is no need for either role in an effective team, especially an agile team because the team can manage its own deliverables. While some agile teams can manage their own deliverables, that's not the only role for a project or program manager. Clarify the Product and Team Objectives. The outcomes).

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 16, 2019

I suggested ways to think about more agile budgeting in part 1. I evaluate the plan—my products, services, and clients—on a regular basis. Publish that book? I can change that mix because I can produce some of my products in under a month. Also, see From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

When you're starting off as a consultant, you might take the first one or two engagements a client offers. A potential client wanted to engage many coaches with “deep” agile and lean experience. Yes, books, not articles.). Each team was supposed to use a “standard” agile approach. We will all fail.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 28, 2018

Many new-to-agile teams use some form of iteration-based agile approach. Back in Time You Spend in Agile Meetings (near the bottom of the post), I enumerated all the possible meetings. I’ve seen several benefits of using a Demo column before the Done column: Too many teams have part-time product owners.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 7, 2022

Roaming through a series of management books and business coaching sessions, one can easily feel overwhelmed by the constant reappearance of certain buzzwords. Nevertheless, a case study of the IT consulting segment can readily showcase the real-life application of soft skills. And this is where soft skills come into the picture.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

In addition, a product leader might approve the feature. Finally, the team, a product leader, or the customer(!) But if you are similar to one of my long-ago clients, they could plan on too many defect escapes every time they released another version of the product. See What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context?

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

Our team is made up of highly-skilled, senior-level consultants from a wide range of backgrounds—educators at top universities, serial entrepreneurs, former C-suite executives, and seasoned process consulting experts. The books include recent publications and ones that have stood the test of time. .

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 29, 2022

A book is much larger than a presentation. And while I'm working with an editor on the book, I don't need to work with anyone else for anything else I do. The post How I Manage My Product Development: Ease with Continuous Flow (Day 1) appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. I don't use iterations.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 24, 2024

Partly because they also do production support—but those are mostly cycle times of 2-3 days. The agile project manager asks, “What percentage confidence are you comfortable with for a given item? Yes, I said this in Predicting the Unpredictable and Create Your Successful Agile Projec t.) But they are not predictable.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 30, 2020

This guy, from a famous agile consultancy, not only used my article. Not only did he use the image from the article that referenced the book, he didn't acknowledge my work at all. I said, “If you credit my work—both the article and the book—you can keep using these slides.” They could afford it.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2018

I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. The first Possible Measurements post focuses on product throughput measurements. This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. Again, do start with your why. Status meetings?

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2014

The book provides six principles that the author’s believe can make organisations more agile, competitive, and responsive by helping employees become more autonomous, cooperative and empowered. The car manufacturer tried to do this by moving its production engineers to the warranty department.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. As the organization changes (both products and tooling), people might not make those mistakes again. About a decade ago, an organization suffered three consecutive bad deployments to production.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 7, 2023

If you're trying to use an agile approach, what do you care about in terms of finishing: That the team finish the work, regardless of the personal or team cost? Successful product development requires the team learn together—the faster, the better.) Agile teams always know who did what. I updated this in the book.)

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We would reward managers by their span of service instead of control, part 3 , stop organizing by function, and move to something that looks like a product-based organization? If you’re wondering, this is how I write books. That culture helps managers learn how to serve the people and the products. Well, I did.)

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