Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

That's an example of how insidious resource efficiency thinking is. I like to ask them to choose a challenging production support problem, or something else that's making them nuts. Show a demo of whatever you complete at the 15-minute mark. The timing: I use a 15-minute timebox, followed by not more than 5 minutes of a demo.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

I started this series with many specific concerns about a particular interview question: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. Divide and Conquer is Anti-Agility I see the product owner and dev team as a divide-and-conquer approach to work. When was the most recent demo?

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 25, 2023

By product, where they assign a team to a product for a long period of time. By person, where they take one person from here and one person from there, etc, to create enough people to work on the product. That's a prime example of resource efficiency , which does not work. I'm not going to dignify that with a discussion.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In this part, I’ll discuss an option for a product-oriented organization. Consider a Product-Oriented Organization. Instead of organizing by function, consider a product-oriented organization. Again, I am not saying this is the only way a product organization would look, but this is a possibility. What do you do?

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2021

I asked Brad these questions: Do you have product or feature teams that are cross-functional and can release alone? ( Component teams create interdependencies and take much more time to finish work.). Does each team focus on just one product at a time? Schedule Variance Does Not Make Sense for Software Products.

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Jerry Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

The tech in the room was completely efficient. He then efficiently got me into a lavaliere microphone, did a sound check handed me a slide clicker and declared me, “Good to go.”. I’m a Master of Consultant Marketing. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel. Consulting: [link] Speaking: [link]. She was delightful.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The previous manager had focused on resource efficiency, not flow efficiency , so everyone had “their” own work. While the old guard worried about relinquishing their power, they were happier to have a product they could release. Then, senior management offered kudos when we showed a demo.

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Jerry Fletcher

OCTOBER 30, 2021

You decided to put your consulting career on the front burner. Not long after that I was trying to convince the man who has now been a client for a decade that moving from doing turnarounds as a CEO or COO to Leadership and Management Consulting was significantly different and that he did not have a team in place to handle the shift.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The first is that Brooks strongly suggested the idea of a “surgical team” That hierarchical team was a feature- or product-based team. Ten people, seven of them professionals, are at work on the problem, but the system is the product of one mind–or at most two, acting uno animo.”

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. The better the team learns together, the better the product is. See the Flow Efficiency series.) Don't decide for anyone.

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Jerry Fletcher

APRIL 24, 2021

Scientists have found 8 management behaviors that use Oxytocin balance to make people more productive. The same study indicates that businesses are considered the most ethical and the most efficient and expected to lead in the New Normal. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. Consulting: [link] Speaking: [link].

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

For years, we've used several metaphors to describe software product development: People-based metaphors, such as: Man-weeks for all the humans working on a project or a product. Demo inside the organization. In product development, is it anyone's job to make a baby at work? Yes, those people might also plan together.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For project-centric companies such as consulting firms, architect and engineering firms or software publishers, the term project accounting takes on a whole new meaning. Additionally, the time needed to reconcile spreadsheets to both the GL and project reporting negatively affects productivity which in turn risks profitability.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Because your context is unique to you, your team, project, product, and culture. And, with any luck, nudges the culture in a good direction for your team, project, and product. Why Do You Want an Agile Culture for Your Product? Notice I said the culture is for this particular product. What do you need?

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

And, that your products and services need short feedback loops that an agile approach will use. Business resilience means everyone works in flow efficiency , not resource efficiency. Even if you don't need an agile approach, feature teams will help your product development efforts. Start with management first.

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 27, 2017

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