Steve Shu Consulting

MAY 4, 2018

Individual consultants and engagement managers usually develop their own ways of organizing information. Develop interview guides according to the problem solving structure and conduct interviews with the interview guides in mind. Have clear consultant assignments and owners for workstreams and major activity areas.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

I'm rewriting/reorganizing the Lead an Innovative Organization book. 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. Manage for effectiveness.

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Steve Shu Consulting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

As an example, for Door 3 students could put me in the hotspot by having me present a short piece of research and then quiz me based on concepts in Chapters 1 and 2 of the course book. The goal of the exercise was to help people develop better team communication styles as an early part of the process of forming project teams.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

I discussed the origins of the agile approaches in Part 5. In this post, I'll discuss how you can create an agile approach that fits your context. Why should you create your own agile approach? You deserve an agile approach that helps you achieve the business outcomes you need. What do you need? Start with the Team.

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Steve Shu Consulting

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

For example, people can read books. I am all for further development of those types of resources and educational models, recognizing their benefits, challenges, and limitations. As an example, I have often told students that they will likely see Scrum/Agile project management methods when they go into the working world.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 3, 2021

Most of these consultants and coaches love what they do. They are not sitting up at night wondering how to find a coach that will unlock their authenticity or a consultant who has a 5-step methodology for aligning people, processes and profits. Or, you may be mystified why most leadership development doesn't seem to stick.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This excerpt is from the Project Lifecycles book, almost ready for release. No one cares about a team's agility—with the possible exception of the team itself. The more agile the approach, the faster the team can deliver value to the customers—without late learning. That's why more agility in product development matters.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve, a software development manager, thought John was a “10x” developer. Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers? Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers?

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Some of my clients have struggled with their project governance as they move to agile approaches. This kind of measurement is antithetical to agile principles. We can see it in an agile approach, because the more time we spend estimating up front, the longer it takes us to deliver that first increment of value.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As a consultant, I create many kinds of information products: both writing and speaking. That allows me the most flexibility in my product development. I'll use my product development as an example to explain how my experimentation and finalization work. That feedback arises from my writing, speaking, and consulting.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

I started asking if you actually need an agile approach in Part 1 and noted the 4 big problems I see. Part 2 was why we need managers in an agile transformation. Part 4 was about how “Agile” is meaningless and “agile” is an adjective that needs to be applied to something. That would be resilient.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 31, 2022

I still want to write more in the book. Those purchase orders are much larger sums of money than an online workshop or revenue from a book. The series: How I Manage My Product Development: Ease with Continuous Flow (Day 1). How Cycle Time and Cost of Delay Makes Product Development Decisions Easier (Day 2).

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 29, 2022

That's because working in flow allows and creates ease in my development. A book is much larger than a presentation. And while I'm working with an editor on the book, I don't need to work with anyone else for anything else I do. When that occurs, I don't use a backlog or create iterations. Instead, I use continuous flow.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 28, 2018

Many new-to-agile teams use some form of iteration-based agile approach. Back in Time You Spend in Agile Meetings (near the bottom of the post), I enumerated all the possible meetings. The Develop and Dev-Done columns are full. I explain how you might do this in Create Your Successful Agile Project.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

Our team is made up of highly-skilled, senior-level consultants from a wide range of backgrounds—educators at top universities, serial entrepreneurs, former C-suite executives, and seasoned process consulting experts. The books include recent publications and ones that have stood the test of time. . Dare to Lead by Brene Brown.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 30, 2020

This guy, from a famous agile consultancy, not only used my article. Not only did he use the image from the article that referenced the book, he didn't acknowledge my work at all. I said, “If you credit my work—both the article and the book—you can keep using these slides.” They could afford it.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 5, 2023

BTW, I like product development teams that stay together, preferably on one product at a time. In my previous books, I assumed the two were linked by where the product was in its journey across the chasm. The post How Product Risks Differ from Project Risks appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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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? Successful product development requires the team learn together—the faster, the better.) Agile teams always know who did what. I updated this in the book.)

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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. Yes, I teach these workshops for each book remotely.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

INFOSYS CONSULTING. Birthed in 2004 as a spin-off of Indian tech outsourcing behemoth Infosys Technologies, Infosys Consulting is quickly climbing the charts as an industry leader in IT Operations and Strategy consulting. INFOSYS CONSULTING KEY STATS. INFOSYS CONSULTING HISTORY. Infosys Engagement Cost: .

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 23, 2022

Jenny has experienced what many of you have, too: Collaborative teams with diverse experiences can develop products customers want to buy. That means she needs to encourage more incremental development—and that the product teams feel as if the benefits and compensation are fair for everyone. My various consulting offerings.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

See my pairing, swarming, and mobbing post or the Project Lifecycles book.) See Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility and Unearthing Your Project's Delays.) That's not product development—and that's the first place we get stuck with Economies of Scale thinking. But, shared services create delays and costs.

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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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Halo Psych

MARCH 17, 2024

6 minute read In their book, Why change doesn’t work , Harvey Robbins and Michael Finley outline seven ‘rules’ we need to remember if we want change to be a positive thing and to succeed: People do what they perceive is in their best interest, thinking as rationally as circumstances allow them to think. People are not inherently anti-change.

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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? Perhaps my journey to agile will help you figure out how to begin your own.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 18, 2018

Consultants and writers share a common problem: we are business owners. Yes, I manage my own product development and my business. She was surprised a business consultant could have a sense of humor. If you’ve read any of my non-fiction books, you’ve encountered my sense of humor. I mentioned agile approaches.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Or a chapter in a book. I publish a wide variety of blog posts and books about agility in all forms. In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I offered ways to rethink any given team's approach to agility. I offered the outcome: a complete book. For writers, this might be a finished blog post or article.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Yes, the premise of my Agile and Lean Program Management book.) I have never seen those three conditions in any non-agile project, but that could be my experience and not universal. That's why many people were interested in the ratio of developers to testers back then. Let me start with the idea of feedback loops. .”

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2022

A colleague unfamiliar with lifecycles or agility asked, “How can we use sprints in this approach?” Nonfiction, fiction, books, articles—you name it. See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.). And you don't have to use an agile approach to use an iteration. It's often a week or more.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I took an opportunity to write a new book this year, Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer. That book satisfied one of my business goals: to write more useful books. That book was on my options list, but I had not planned to write that book this year. I'm now able to finish the consulting book.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 3, 2021

We discussed the Modern Management Made Easy books among other topics: A little about the origins of agile approaches. Listen here: Johanna Rothman: No, Great Developers Aren't Destined to Be Great Managers. On the Maintainable podcast, Robby Russell often interviews people about technical issues. Not this time! You know me.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I got the idea for this series from Chris Murman's talk at Agile 2019 and from all my shepherding for the Agile 20xx and XPxx conferences. (If If you're wondering, yes, I plan to create a short book and online class from this material.). For example, I only offer talks for people using agile approaches or trying to.

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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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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

This is one of the reasons Mark and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Your team might not need an agile approach. Mark and I listed these tools for the team's workspace in the book: The code repository. The developers were in New York, the testers in Vietnam. The test repository.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

Becoming a competent and sought-after project manager is impossible without constant professional development. At the same time, the amount of information in any domain is unprecedentedly huge – courses, books, education websites, blogs, etc. What else will you find in this book? Enjoy the reading!

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Full disclosure: I met Andy back in 1999 at the Software Development conference. I'm thrilled to say he did that with the Modern Management Made Easy books, too. As part of our discussion about the Modern Management Made Easy books, we spoke about: Congruence. So we've known each other for a long time.

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 20, 2022

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. Consider the case of a software development company. They always call upon agility and balance.

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