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. The team decides how to solve problems.

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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. Along with prioritizing training, you must align what will be offered and the needs of the organization and the learners. Embrace Flexibility and Personalization Rigid training programs are typically less successful than those that are flexible.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 15, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. This part is about how people want a recipe, The Answer, for how to get better at “Agile.” ” Before we can address what an answer might be, your need to know your why for an agile approach. Can “Agile” deliver on that?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 28, 2019

You need enough insight or prediction to start the marketing campaign or to create training videos or product documentation. I wrote about how to define release criteria for the software (or hardware) part of the product in Manage It!, Agile and Lean Program Management , and in Create Your Successful Agile Project.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Leaders need to learn how to help teams become comfortable with uncertainty. But a lucky few react with a degree of strategic clarity and mental agility that allows them to adapt with relative ease. And a study by Korn Ferry found companies with highly agile workforces have 25% higher profit margins than their less agile peers.

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Clarity Consultants

JUNE 30, 2023

From figuring out how to cut costs and trying to stand out from your competitors, all while also trying to keep your staff paid and happy, there’s a lot to think about. The more training you offer, the more efficient and effective employees are in a role. Running a business during tough economic times can cause a lot of uncertainty.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 20, 2021

We talk a lot about empowered or self-organizing teams in the agile community. Everyone does the best job they know how to do. Instead of talking about empowerment, let's discuss how we trust teams and people to do their best job. And managers don't realize inspect-and-adapt is a necessary part of an agile culture.).

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 13, 2023

High-quality trust-based relationships create the opportunity for feedback to understand if a leader's understanding is accurate and, as needed, how to align their leadership style. How strong are the follower's demonstrated or transferable task knowledge and skills? How motivated is the follower toward the task? Zigarmi, D., &

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This article aims to shed light on the power of governance and how to create a transformative governance structure. Adopt Agile Frameworks: A transformative governance structure should be adaptive so that it can respond to a rapidly evolving business landscape.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 5, 2023

He led small but trained armies against larger enemies on many fronts. Although he was eventually defeated, Napoleon held his ground through efficiency and agility. Through training, Napoleon’s army was able to switch between these formations quickly depending on what was needed.

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Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

User training and adoption. This includes educating users on how to use Epicflow effectively: conducting training sessions/workshops or providing online tutorials to familiarize users with the software’s features and functionalities. We’ll dwell on the team training and onboarding in a separate section.

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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. What can I do?”

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

If you work at a place new to agile approaches, work on streamlining the releases so you always release once a month. (I Agile approaches create empirical measurements: what we have actually completed, not predictive measurements, what we want to have completed. Release finished features often. Then move to releasing every two weeks.

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Comatch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Aside from Scrum, it’s the most important agile approach. I worked with a bank on a project and was asked to coach their employees on how to use Kanban. If an employee thought Kanban could benefit their workflow, I’d offer them training. The bank implemented the agile approach across all departments, not just IT.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. Build Agility. While it is easy to say these pivots were a result of agility, it is important to differentiate between “brilliant improvisation” and a repeatable capability.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

How to track your Goals and objectives: Tracking goals and objectives can be a daunting task for many senior leaders. By adopting a more agile, data-centric approach to decision-making, your organization can shift its priorities towards flexible methodologies that can improve its resiliency. Are you having a strategy meeting soon?

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

See Project Lifecycle Workshop: How to Manage Project Risks to Release Successful Products.) So the people in the learning/process improvement/agile center of excellence ask me for a free talk. I understand how people feel caught in a bind. Why should I train their people for free? I don't expect exposure.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

When it comes to creating a more data-and-analytics-driven workforce, many companies make the mistake of conflating analytics training with data adoption. While training is indeed critical, having an adoption plan in place is even more essential. Build certification into your training. Consider training a starting point.

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LSA Global

MARCH 6, 2023

The highly customized career development training for employees focused on: Proactively Telling Your “Story” with Your Manager Participants explored practical principles and tips to help proactively tell their “story” with their Manager about their line of sight impact , contributions, and actionable next steps for growth.

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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 16, 2017

To prepare for and prevent the cyberattacks of the future, firms need to balance technological deterrents and tripwires with agile, human-centered defenses. It’s better to assume your defenses will be breached and to train your people in what to do when that happens. When we say all employees have to be risk agile, we mean all.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 22, 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 customized Leading Leaders Workshop.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2021

I see too much micromanagement, even in supposedly agile organizations. As an example, when managers don't bother to learn agile measures and what they mean and instead want a Gantt chart, “because how long could it take?” ” Or, when a manager imposes a “standard” agile approach.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Everyone – from C-suite leaders and IT to SMEs, service techs, and sales reps must learn how to activate and operationalize their data. Do employees understand how to combine insights from different sources to generate more accurate predictions, model scenarios, find unexpected correlations, etc.? The bottom line? Retain talent?

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We hear about agile teams, in the form of product or feature teams. ” If we want business agility, managers need to work in teams—maybe even before we think about product or feature teams. Middle managers manage the project portfolio, identify new opportunities, and gather data for training across the organization.

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LSA Global

MARCH 15, 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 highly customized 6-month Action Learning Program for Healthcare Leaders.

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Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

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. Learn how to learn. Step up execution excellence. Flatten the structure. Unleash nimble, empowered teams.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

This is confirmed by the recent PMI Pulse of the Profession report — they’ve found that companies that give particular importance to soft skills (or how they call them “power skills”) achieve better project outcomes and have higher levels of project management maturity and organizational agility [3].

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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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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The rise of contractual employment offers businesses the benefit of agility and adaptability by turning full-time employees into freelancers. In terms of flexibility and autonomy, consultants who operate as contractors can decide what services to offer, when and how to offer those services, and what prices to charge.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 22, 2023

How to Write for Secondary Readers Polly, a program manager, works with her program team to solve a cross-program problem: status reporting. Now that we are close, Sales, Training, Marketing all need much more detail and information about how to use Nova and when they can expect it. Want to see/read more about how to do this?

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 30, 2022

However, agile teams have one specific “tool” to create better predictability: right-sizing their stories. ” That's how right-sizing can help you forecast work. I could have used a bus or train, but I tend to drive when I need to go somewhere.). How long does a team need?

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LSA Global

MAY 25, 2022

The People Team faced a few complications: The Executive Team that they needed to support was not on the same page with an agreed upon vision of of how to handle internal and external disruptions. New strategies, competitive pressures, leaders, products, and approaches. To create executive team alignment, LSA Global: 1.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 9, 2021

4 best practices to redefine back office services – Here are four best practices around training, operations, quality assurance, and automation to create exceptional services. Digital transformation powered by RPA/RDA – Learn how a leading telecom improved the efficiency of its customer-facing and enterprise back-office operations.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The benefit there is, firms can tap into hard-to-find skills as needed and scale resources up or down in response to demand — essentially, allowing them to embrace a more agile approach to running the business. Decisions about what services to offer and how to deliver them must align with client needs, branding, and financial objectives.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2022

Third, be flexible and agile to respond to customer needs. You might conduct training for your customer service representatives to ensure an even higher level of customer satisfaction. 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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Cheryl Cran

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

So in these times of intense uncertainty how do we build disruption tolerance? The more flexible and agile your mind the more quickly you can adapt to a new change or situation. practice training your mind to do this through brain games, reading about creative processes (i.e./ When things get tough… the creative get going.

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