Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 13, 2021

And you're supposed to be at another meeting, that started 15 minutes ago. Your previous meeting ran long, so now you're late. That conversation prevented a bad product decision. (Or, Overall faster decision-making, which allows for business agility. Invite other people to the meetings you can't say No to.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Reform your team’s meeting habits to boost productivity and business impact as a CEO (a post-pandemic approach). If you work at a small business or growing company, you'll eventually face the problem of too many meetings. Once fun and collaborative workplace cultures can easily become a drag of meetings.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Effective leadership is communication. From being vulnerable to saying what others don't want to hear to endless Zoom meetings. A few things about effective leadership communication are proven based on several studies over the past two decades. Why Leadership Communication Matters. It can be exhausting.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 12, 2021

You want business agility. 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. The teams have worked hard to change how they work. Educate them.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

For the growing companies, it’s crucially important to keep track of all their products and make sure they are in demand and meet customers’ needs. A good way to increase profitability is to work on the products that will definitely bring revenue and make the right improvements that people are expecting.

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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

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. Team-based “agile” is not enough.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The leaders in the Facilitative Leadership Workshop faced the following challenges: High expectations to take, promote, and encourage a cross-functional and program focus vs. the predominant product and function focus that most of their internal customers follow and are rewarded for.

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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

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. Status meetings? I want to see that.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 17, 2020

Every single person in a leadership position struggles with (agile) team transparency. When we ask for more meetings, we interrupt people just as they might have an hour or two to work. Standups are not for serial status meetings. That kind of control is incongruent with agile leadership. Correct again.)

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2018

Most managers I meet want to do a good job. As their organizations move to agile approaches, these managers have problems: their organization (managers above them) wants to measure them by the old rules which demand control. The people doing the work want less control and more servant leadership.

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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. Product managers manage the product roadmaps.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

That requires clarity into current situations, sound decision-making, and agile execution. At the end of the year, the final numbers make for a very unpleasant investor meeting. A Clarity Break is when you set aside time to step outside the office – away from the pressures and problems, the emails and meetings – to think.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2018

One of my clients has many reasons for wanting an agile transformation. Their old products are at the end of their lives. They need agile approaches so they can get feedback from customers as they develop the new products. Agile approaches are perfect for their corporate needs. Their agile transformation is stuck.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We hear about agile teams, in the form of product or feature teams. Then he said, “I miss the team-based problem solving I did with colleagues back when I was on a product team. ” We’re accustomed to product or feature times. We have senior leadership teams. A client, Bob, had that very problem.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

.” Everyone needs to know how they will contribute to which team or product, and how. Who will meet the person on the first day? Who will meet the person on the first day? For the product or the work, what is the purpose of the work? Remember: Regardless of your approach, product development is team-based work.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

That requires clarity into current situations, sound decision-making, and agile execution. At the end of the year, the final numbers make for a very unpleasant investor meeting. A Clarity Break is when you set aside time to step outside the office – away from the pressures and problems, the emails and meetings – to think.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 17, 2020

Every single person in a leadership position struggles with (agile) team transparency. When we ask for more meetings, we interrupt people just as they might have an hour or two to work. Standups are not for serial status meetings. That kind of control is incongruent with agile leadership. Correct again.)

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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

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. They adjourned the meeting to get forecasts from the teams. We had the top three projects at that first meeting.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2023

In preparation for a recent consulting engagement, the client, Tim, said, “I want you to track meeting attendance. If people don't come to your meetings, I want to know why.” We needed to determine what prevented senior leadership (and everyone else) from collaborating. Meeting attendance is very easy to measure.

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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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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Strategic planning ensures that the business remains agile and responsive to changing market conditions. This data-driven approach enables medium-sized companies to make informed decisions and tailor their products or services to meet market demand effectively. This leads to increased productivity and profitability.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Although one of the main tasks of any software consulting project is to code the software programs, engagements begin with a meeting or field visit with the client to discuss their issues in detail. Agile software development is a set of principles and practices that aim to improve the effectiveness of software development.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2017

I’ve recently been thinking about this with regard to how leaders can be more strategic, able to effectively execute the core of their business while remaining open to trends in the market and adapting to meet them. I’ve begun to view this as the ability to hold two specific traits in balance: consistency and agility.

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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? 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. Work Toward the Product Organization with Team Behaviors. We like to learn.).

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 23, 2020

Acme has been working towards agility for the last couple of years. and in Create Your Successful Agile Project. Let's walk through Acme's thinking for Release 6 of their flagship product. Acme's product is firmly in the mainstream. Release 6 adds significant additional features to the product.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Technology combined with data is a matter of life and death for professional services firms where the “product” is a combination of insights and expertise. Agility Evolution Agile transformation represents an ongoing effort to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the organization.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Top Team Leader Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs We know from our action learning leadership development programs that all leaders make mistakes. Leaders may be more comfortable this way, but they are severely limiting points of view that could lead them and their teams in new and more productive directions.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Flow efficiency can help create and reinforce a product culture.). A cross-functional team who manages the project portfolio for their part of the business, for a product line, for an organization. As part of product value teams. Why do you think managers have hours and hours of meetings in a day? As part of a sales team.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 6, 2023

Organizational Agility — Do You Have an Adaptable Enough Corporate Culture? It’s up to leadership to actively involve those affected by change in creating a compelling vision for change with an implementable plan for their unique situation. Certainly, one can admire an organization with a strong sense of direction and company purpose.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images. Core Competencies.

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Clarity Consultants

MAY 10, 2023

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. In turn, the approach remains agile long-term, ensuring it meets your organization’s needs today and tomorrow.

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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. To meet these challenges, we see three priorities for developing the next generation of leaders in the “work-disrupted” age: Mastery of Digital. Mastering digital requires leaders to be agile amid disruption.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

You might be able to tolerate more defects which would allow you to meet the date. Agile approaches help us manage a ranked feature set in a specific time period (even if we don't use iterations). You might be able to hire more people to either help with the tools the team needs.

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