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? Successful product development requires the team learn together—the faster, the better.) Agile teams always know who did what. Not in an agile team.

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Epicflow

MARCH 19, 2024

This time, we’ve prepared updates that will prove useful for those who work in an Agile environment, use Jira + Epicflow integration as well as those dealing with manufacturing, machine building, and other complex phased projects. back-end and front-end developers, QA engineers, etc.).

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 30, 2020

He’s pretty sure a colleague, John, is plagiarizing his blog posts. This guy, from a famous agile consultancy, not only used my article. ” Remember, this was the premier agile consultancy at the time. Every so often, I discover people have scraped content from my blog. Not in writing, but in conversation.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 23, 2022

And she wants the teams to create products the customers want to buy. Jenny has experienced what many of you have, too: Collaborative teams with diverse experiences can develop products customers want to buy. Over her career, Jenny has learned that it's easier to sell more product than to manage costs. Learn with Johanna.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 4, 2024

And given the plethora of “agile” coaches, too many managers have relinquished their coaching roles to these (supposed) agilists. I feel another blog post coming on.) What happens when a developer or tester (or, if you're lucky) a team has to choose between two products? That serves no one in the organization. (I

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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. Agility and scale rarely co-exist in the design of the organizational operating model. But tangible examples of these new ways of working are few and far between. The global/local tension.

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Business Consulting Agency

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Statistics: According to a study by HubSpot, businesses with a regularly updated blog witness a 97% increase in inbound links. Statistics: According to Nielsen, 59% of consumers prefer to buy products from familiar brands. Adaptability to Market Trends Fact: Marketing enables businesses to stay agile in a dynamic market.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 28, 2023

See Create Successful Schedules: Three Tips to Rolling Wave Planning and the series that starts with Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 1, Think in Feature Sets. There's plenty more about rolling wave planning on this blog.) Later, she used these ideas for the product roadmaps.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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. Embracing agility enables teams to stay nimble and responsive in the face of adversity, ultimately driving towards success.

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1 to 1

JULY 2, 2013

1to1 Media''s Tom Hoffman speaks with Steve Kraus, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Pegasystems about the key themes that emerged from the PegaWORLD 2013 event, including the need for companies to become more agile and flexible in their approach to delivering on what customers are looking for. 1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Specifics of Project Management for Manufacturing Companies The manufacturing environment deals with creating physical products, which in turn embraces a variety of processes that should be properly managed. This challenge is complexified by the demand for the high quality of delivered products and a lack of human resources.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Leveraging Cutting-Edge Technologies Under current conditions of economic turbulence, workforce shortage, and supply chain disruptions, manufacturing organizations should work towards increasing the efficiency of their operations, achieving business agility and resilience. Here are some of the examples. AdvancedTech. Industry 4.0.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 25, 2018

I’m working on my roadmapping talk for Agile 2018. I finally had the transforming idea about how to position the talk: Roadmapping and product planning are about feedback loops. That feedback loop works in at least these ways: The faster we learn, the more often we can question our product assumptions.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 21, 2022

global chip shortage), and the need for reducing production costs add to the above-mentioned difficulties. . In addition, to stay competitive on the market, business owners will struggle to deliver their products faster and produce more (e.g. The need to shorten the time for product development. Dealing with uncertainty.

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Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 24, 2021

In Part 1 and 2 of this series, I wrote about how an agile approach might offer strategic benefits. And because an agile approach changes your culture, I said the agile approach was part of your strategy. So let's ask this question: Can any tool—agile or otherwise—offer you a strategic advantage? (I

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

That’s our product, and that’s our passion. It launched a product, gathered feedback, and kept iterating as it scaled and added users. At the other is a product or service that solves the problem or addresses the market in a way nobody has thought of before. Your data isn’t even in the picture.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Here's my speaking bio, in specific lines, so you can see how I use that template: Johanna, known as the Pragmatic Manager, offers frank advice for your product development challenges. She works with individuals, teams, and leaders across the organization to resolve risks and see alternatives for their product development.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. Production performance. What is “center-led”. The “center-led” concept provides that logic.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 18, 2018

Yes, I manage my own product development and my business. I mentioned agile approaches. She asked me a bunch about my personal blog, createadaptablelife.com , and I answered. Consultants and writers share a common problem: we are business owners. That means we manage our businesses. and how you can adjust as you proceed.

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The Source

MAY 10, 2019

While scale is still a key part of the firm’s narrative, the years in which Accenture offered the consulting equivalent of Bauhaus brutalism have given way to an altogether smarter approach, all agile and innovation. But where is Accenture going now? But Accenture’s scale makes this a significant move.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

For example, the lack of project prioritization and ineffective allocation of engineering and product development resources resulted in late and over-budget products, which were now in high demand. Given our ideal customer mix, where should we be a product-centric innovator, a me-too fast follower, and customer-centric?

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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2024

According to the American Psychological Association, when teamed together correctly, about 10% of the workforce can account for about 30% of productivity. In a world where agility is paramount, teams that cultivate a mindset of continuous learning and adaptation thrive during the good and bad times.

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Asamby Consulting

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

When employees have less distractions at work, it increases their productivity and performance, resulting in a better profitability for the organization. With the lack of an office environment, employees working alone could have a sense of isolation, which might lead to low productivity.

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Epicflow

MAY 4, 2023

Research and development projects involve the process of discovering new ideas, technologies, and solutions to create new products (or services) or improve existing ones. Will the developed product satisfy customers and be relevant in the market? In addition, changing requirements are commonplace for research and development projects.

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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

MAY 14, 2024

Use Timeboxes to Make Visible Progress I have a variety of larger work: Books, fiction, and some blog posts (the ones that turn into series) New workshops Presentations Client work, which can vary from proposal to implementation and back again. I strongly recommend product development teams use Cost of Delay to rank the work.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

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. Insular leaders lack humility, inclusiveness, openness, agility. Can your leaders balance production and production capability?

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Asamby Consulting

MARCH 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore what organizational development is and how small business owners can leverage it to achieve long-term success. This can help small businesses develop new products and services that meet the changing needs of their customers. What is Organizational Development?

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2019

I spoke at Agile 2019 last week. Here are my thoughts and where I think the “agile” industry is headed. Problems I See with “Agile” Here's a summary of problems I saw last week: Too many people think “agile” will solve all their problems. Do You Need an Agile Approach?

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Productivity: IT teams can allocate their time to more important business tasks, rather than time-consuming IT management chores essential for on-site data centers. The rise of insurtech has introduced a host of startups to the market, small companies built on digital agility that bring new perspectives to the business of insurance.

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Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2018

As I discuss in my book Analytics: The Agile Way, how Nextdoor responded illustrates not only the importance of reacting quickly in a crisis , but how useful a data-driven, agile approach can be. But by taking a data-oriented and agile approach to design, the company reported it had reduced racial profiling by 75 percent.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

However, they now had a production support problem that they needed to fix. Production support issues are validated feedback. The team called the product people “product owners.” These product people executed manual tests. These product people executed manual tests. Neither did the team.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 17, 2023

That might be for the organization or a specific product or project. The first was Mike Griffith's and my experience writing the Agile Practice Guide. See Bridging Mindsets: Creating the PMI Agile Practice Guide. See Bridging Mindsets: Creating the PMI Agile Practice Guide. Iterate on your proposal until it's done.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In a multi-project environment, ensuring productive work of team members gains even more importance: resources are shared by concurrent projects, and their fruitful work on them will be impossible without wise resource management. . Proper workload management eliminates two major productivity enemies: overwork and idleness.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

I completed my other blogging and fiction newsletter. All this collaboration and learning together means the team shares its product development. If you're a product leader, you need a product value team. No one can work alone for product development and know that they will make great decisions.

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Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

Therefore, before investing in certain technology, every company should have a clear idea of what their customers’ journey is, their behaviors, and expectations to make sure that transformed products or services will meet customers’ needs to the full. . Its aim is to create new business models, new products, or services.

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