Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2022

See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.) Also, see the Pairing, Swarming, Mobbing post so you can see how people might work together, keeping the team's WIP low. The reason the teams worked on so many projects was that senior leadership was not clear on the strategy.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 4, 2024

Choose a Role That Fits Your Situation You might have heard of situational leadership. And given the plethora of “agile” coaches, too many managers have relinquished their coaching roles to these (supposed) agilists. What happens when a developer or tester (or, if you're lucky) a team has to choose between two products?

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Next, How Value and Cost of Delay—Not Cost Savings—Applies to Centralization Decisions Part 2 , I explained how to think about the value of work instead of predicted costs. See Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility and Unearthing Your Project's Delays.) Product development requires teams who can learn together.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 3, 2022

The following 9 inspirational videos on leadership and change have been helpful for us and the leaders with whom we work. How do you lead change? Grit, curiosity, agility, courage and so much more. In this talk, Jason Clarke covers how to make your ideas happen and why new ideas are often met with resistance.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

McNulty, associate director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, and Leonard Marcus, founding co-director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, wrote , “The coronavirus crisis, like every crisis, is unfolding over an arc of time with a beginning, middle, and end. Build Agility.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Instead, I spend most of my time on product issues across the organization. The next bit of time I spend working alone on the product work.” ” I could see how he felt stretched. “Why do you spend all this time doing the product work yourself? That's how you can create the culture you want.).

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. What and how we reward people.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 12, 2021

You want business agility. The teams have worked hard to change how they work. The people and teams continue to experiment with agile behaviors. Every team's agile journey is unique. So is each manager's agile journey. If some people aren't sure, they might not be as far along in their agile journey.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Effective leadership is communication. A few things about effective leadership communication are proven based on several studies over the past two decades. With these recommendations, you can focus on the critical few proven leadership communication solutions that create business results. Why Leadership Communication Matters.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2021

I see too much micromanagement, even in supposedly agile organizations. ” When we have insufficient trust, morale and the products deteriorate. Instead, we can extend trust and keep innovating for morale and the products. ” Or, when a manager imposes a “standard” agile approach. What can you do?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 13, 2023

Research suggests that mismatched management reduces morale, trust, and productivity and increases employee turnover. This leadership style often stems from believing that the leader knows best and the stakes are high. This style of leadership is described as laissez-faire. How motivated is the follower toward the task?

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Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

I’m tired of hearing about how much business and leadership is going to change in the “World 2.0.” Not to be left out of the rush to platitudes, the Darden business school at the University of Virginia enjoins us to “get back to BASICS,” their acronym for Bonding, Agility, Safety, Inclusion, Compassion, and Strategic Alignment.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

When I work with leaders about how to say No, they often say: But someone needs to do this work, right? The team doesn't have to be a feature- or product-based team. And I have a discussion in Create Your Successful Agile Project about backlog items.). No requires that you exercise your leadership. Even if it's not me?

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In Part 1 , I suggested that when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. In this part, I’ll discuss an option for a product-oriented organization. Consider a Product-Oriented Organization. That includes product ownership. How Many Managers Do You Need?

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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

APRIL 14, 2020

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. ” Or mine, “Explore and support effective ways of managing product development.”

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 3, 2018

This series is about how you might move to a product-based organization. Part 1 was about how when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. Part 2 was about one possibility for moving to a product-based organization. The end date for a project.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

To better engage your team when faced with unrealistic targets requires a blend of leadership vulnerability, trust , and practicality. To mitigate the fallout while making sure that unreasonable targets don’t negatively impact the health or productivity of you or your team: Understand the Impact on Your Team It can be easy to overreact.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2018

I’ve been thinking about my clients who’ve had success moving from a project-based/resource-efficiency organization to a product-based/flow efficiency organization. This question states the desired outcome and doesn’t tell people how to do it. The products were all larger than one team.). The teams were happy.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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Clarity Consultants

MAY 10, 2023

Here’s a look at how to create an effective L&D strategy that aligns with your goals. Organizations need to determine how training can address pain points participants are experiencing while providing the company with an apparent gain, such as enhanced productivity. Less rigidity makes updates easier to incorporate.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

He had too many questions: how to use his expertise to contribute to the team; who was actually on the team; and the processes we use. ” Everyone needs to know how they will contribute to which team or product, and how. For the product or the work, what is the purpose of the work? ” Tim paused.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

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. Rather than debating the advantages of agile teams, why not start demonstrating them? How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

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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? When teams collaborate, these managers have no idea how to assess anyone's performance. Agile teams always know who did what. Collaboration decreases learning debt.

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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. And I didn't tell you how. Here's how I've measured satisfaction with several teams. Here's how the scale looks in practice. This organization wanted what agile approaches offered.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 18, 2020

My agile transformation clients struggle with this big question: How do we effectively reward managers? The more the organization wants or needs an agile transformation, the less the current reward structure works. How do you incent the managers? Cindy wants this agile transformation to succeed.

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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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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

How do we move from a project-based organization towards a product organization? How the teams work and their team culture. I’ve noticed these challenges in companies who want to move to a more product-oriented approach: The reward system rewards resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. No one likes to fail.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 28, 2020

As we move to more remote work, especially in these pandemic times, how do we integrate people so they can succeed? See Hiring Geeks That Fit for all the new employee checklists and how to use them. I assume you use products of some sort to manage all that data. Want to preview the checklists and templates?

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 20, 2020

Agile strategy transformations organizations and delivers results. Agile strategy gives organizations the framework and mindset necessary to accelerate momentum and drive results while simultaneously developing leaders, aligning teams, changing the way the organization works, and energizing people.

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 20, 2020

important;}”] Agile strategy transformations organizations and delivers results. Agile strategy gives organizations the framework and mindset necessary to accelerate momentum and drive results while simultaneously developing leaders, aligning teams, changing the way the organization works, and energizing people.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 22, 2020

Even if you use an agile approach, you still can't create an impossible project. Only two small cross-functional teams available to work on the product. When I started to work with this organization, the product people thought they needed “all of it.” What about the constraints and floats? All the people you need.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 9, 2020

In the agile and lean communities, we talk a lot about transparency. This image is the transparency principle we used in From Chaos to Distributed Agile Teams. I see the most product and program success when the various teams create transparency between them, the middle of the continuum. That's the full-product transparency.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Maybe even draw a picture of when the story/product completes. (I All the ways John's code connected—or didn't—to the rest of the product. They learn how to think with others. In addition, they work to simplify their code and the entire product. Agile thinking and culture shows us that no, we don't.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

When a large automotive company shifted its organization model from a product center-of-gravity to a customer-centric model, its leaders initially believed the matrixed tensions were unnecessary complexity and associated tension with “failure.” 1 Networked, Scaled, and Agile. Amy Kates, Greg Kesler, Michele DiMartino.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 23, 2020

I wrote about how to pick a driver in Part 1. In Part 2 , I wrote about how you might finesse some of the constraints and floats if you can release frequently. Acme has been working towards agility for the last couple of years. and in Create Your Successful Agile Project. Acme's product is firmly in the mainstream.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2022

Are product or service choices shifting? Third, be flexible and agile to respond to customer needs. You could put certain product offerings on the back burner in order to promote others. Challenge yourself to come up with new ideas for how to raise your profile and deepen your impact with your target market.

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