Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2019

Most of my clients struggle with their agile transformation. The teams love agile approaches because they can work on their release frequency and technical excellence. The senior managers love the agile promise because they can see how agile approaches help the teams release a more constant flow of value.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

A couple of weeks ago, I delivered the first version of my Free Your Agile Team talk at Agile New England. I spoke about the problem of a framework-first approach to transforming to an agile culture. I based the talk on Create Your Successful Agile Project , but I didn’t stop there.). (I

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Introduction to an Agile Transformation series… I’ve seen several agile transformation challenges. Since I want to address those challenges, this is a series of posts about agile transformation. The problems I’m planning to address are: Understanding why agile, why now. You might have another reason.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

That's how you can create the culture you want.). If you use these delegation ideas, you will find you have time to have one-on-ones every week or two, depending on how agile your team is. And now we get to the sticky part—what the leadership thinks they pay you for. You will also have time to think. Decide for now.).

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Unfortunately, many organizations keep strategic plans a secret and don't involve leaders outside the executive leadership team. 5 Key strategic thinking leadership competencies A leader's ability to question and make connections between ideas and evaluate options improves strategic thinking.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Overall faster decision-making, which allows for business agility. When I work with leaders, I hear reasons like this: I was the original architect or product manager or developer, so I know the most about the system (or product). See Insubordination vs Caring About the System. This is a part of the series of leadership tips.

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LSA Global

JULY 14, 2020

Agile Change Management – What Is It? Agile change management is an approach to managing the people side of change that works in concert with the agile project management methodology. Done right, the agile approach to project management enables teams to adapt to change quickly and deliver work faster.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2018

I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. They “measure” the culture. When you transform your measurements, you can transform your system and culture.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

” is one of the questions I see when I work with people going through an agile transformation. This measurement question can be the prompt that changes your culture and your system. I like to see the questions reflect the why for your organization’s agile transformation. “What should I measure???”

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for an action learning program entitled Leading Leaders for Senior Executives.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2023

The CEO’s Best Tool for Success – A High Performing Leadership Team To thrive, organizations must be agile enough to meet everchanging market conditions. A CEO’s best tool for success is a high performing leadership team. The speed and scope of change can be daunting. A stagnant executive team is a less effective executive team.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2018

Are you looking to help support your team, management, or organization’s agile adoption? Do you feel as if you are part of the formal or informal team leading your agile transformation? You need what Gil Broza and I teach and facilitate at the Influential Agile Leader Workshop. Agile Transformation is a Journey, Part 6.

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Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 15, 2020

The office of information technology that serves agencies across a state government system set a goal of becoming a high-performing and customer-centric service provider. Working with the technology organization leadership, Brimstone designed a comprehensive, integrated approach to create context-specific solutions for the organization.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2018

One of my clients has many reasons for wanting an agile transformation. They need agile approaches so they can get feedback from customers as they develop the new products. They need to create a mix of new products and services, which means they need to use an agile approach for their projects and their project portfolio.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

Essential reads on leadership and change for your library. The following list of 31 books on leadership and change is comprised of books we have found helpful in our careers and ones we often recommend to leaders. 31 books on leadership and change. The ultimate playbook for developing brave leaders and courageous cultures.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

McKinsey & Company discovered that data-driven firms are 23 times more likely to acquire customers , six times more likely to retain them, and 19 times more likely to be profitable than their counterparts without a data-driven culture. Are you having a strategy meeting soon? Get our free 2-Day strategic planning agenda.

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LSA Global

MAY 2, 2024

Understanding the cultural nuances of these approaches is important during both strategy design and strategy execution. Rigidity in processes can hinder organizational agility , making it challenging to respond swiftly to evolving market dynamics or capitalize on emergent opportunities.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a leadership action learning program called Action Learning for Leading Leaders.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. That’s one way that our words reflect our culture.). Except, in an agile approach, product management (often via product owners) is an integral part of a high-performing agile team. Can they create an agile transformation?

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Strategic planning ensures that the business remains agile and responsive to changing market conditions. Consultants help medium-sized companies identify and implement technology solutions that enhance operations, such as CRM systems, data analytics tools, and e-commerce platforms.

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LSA Global

MAY 11, 2023

Why an Organizational Structure Designed to Promote Employee Engagement Matters Findings from our organizational culture assessment tell us that most employees feel like their companies are in a constant state of organizational flux driven by the accelerating pace of organizational change and never-ending industry disruption.

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Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

After that, they are given access to a simple demo environment with a standard set of configurations, where they can test how our system works. At this stage, we upload the client’s existing data from your current systems or spreadsheets into the Epicflow system and adjust it depending on the company’s needs and requirements.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 2, 2021

I explained in Leadership Tip #8 that measuring happiness was a lost cause because happiness is a function of more than just work. ” When Susan, the agile project manager, started the next day, she took a picture of the paper. The build system takes too long. This organization wanted what agile approaches offered.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve—and the team—needed to see their system. Visualize the Team's System. One of the most important ways is to see the team's system. Measurements Helped Everyone See the System. However, he only created happy-path functional tests to see how his code worked with the rest of the system.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

.” In my experience, when organizations want to use agile approaches or transform in some way, the managers start with the teams. Agile approaches can help teams improve, and many teams do release value faster. Agile approaches can help teams improve, and many teams do release value faster. The teams focus on their work.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A potential client wanted to engage many coaches with “deep” agile and lean experience. Each team was supposed to use a “standard” agile approach. However, this Dan and the rest of the HR department had no idea what agile and lean could look like for any department. The client wanted published authors.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

But Weber also warned that, unfettered, bureaucracy could create a soulless “iron cage,” trapping people inside dehumanizing systems and limiting their potential. I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Forum participants will have an opportunity to learn from inspirational project management leaders as well as attend masterclasses revealing the aspects of delivering sustainable projects, Agile transformation, application of technologies, and more. is the largest Agile conference in Central Europe. PMO London 2024 June, 18-19.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Our culture shapes our language. And, our language shapes our culture.) We reinforce a culture of resource efficiency. Sometimes, we reinforce a project culture where teams break up after they’re done with the project.). We reinforce a culture of flow efficiency. More often, they mean team member.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The model has been used in other industries and has parallels to the “teams of teams” approach in the agile method of operating that has become so popular. Interestingly, despite the number of huddles, the number of action items has never overwhelmed the system. At Intermountain, the 15-minute huddle is the key.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Many pro services firms still use fragmented systems or analog methods like spreadsheets to manage projects. Determining if your system is truly “unified” starts with looking at your core processes to determine if they’re working. Does your culture enable problem-solving/exploration?

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2021

We talk a lot about self-organizing teams when we talk about agility. Because especially agile teams might want to experiment with these practices on a regular basis. Instead, when we are responsible “to,” we create a system of work that more people tend to enjoy. I haven't met too many self-organizing teams.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2022

Done right, mapping the current customer experience assesses your current organizational culture and allows for a comparison between the experiences people have and the underlying operational processes and systems that substantiate those experiences. This is where the leadership plays an absolutely fundamental role.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Edelman estimates that one in three employees doesn’t trust their employer — despite the fact that billions are spent every year on leadership development. Part of the problem: Our primary method of developing leaders is antithetical to the type of leadership we need. We can’t simply think our way out of a habit.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Part 1 was about how when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. Managers remove systemic impediments. Managers help people build their interpersonal skills, those deep skills that create psychological safety and a culture where people want to work.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work. Mastering digital requires leaders to be agile amid disruption. Insight Center.

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