Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

I'm rewriting/reorganizing the Lead an Innovative Organization book. Anytime I've seen a successful innovation culture, I've seen these principles. Let me address a little about business agility and innovation. Business agility allows us to create a culture where we plan to change. The post Want Business Agility?

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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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Agile Culture Efficiency Guidelines 65

Johanna Rothman

JUNE 9, 2022

” “Each resource has at least two projects so they stay productive and efficient.” ” These managers have created a resource efficiency culture, not a flow efficiency culture, as in the image above. In contrast, a flow efficiency culture watches the flow of the work. What does your culture value?

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Efficiency Culture Resources Management 75

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. But managers and customers do care about better products. The managers care when the team can release those products—that's why managers use capitalization metrics.

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Agile Metrics Productivity Management 60

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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Management Agile How To Productivity 108

Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

I'm rewriting/reorganizing the Lead an Innovative Organization book. Anytime I've seen a successful innovation culture, I've seen these principles. Let me address a little about business agility and innovation. Business agility allows us to create a culture where we plan to change. Manage for effectiveness.

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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. They “measure” the culture.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. As the organization changes (both products and tooling), people might not make those mistakes again. About a decade ago, an organization suffered three consecutive bad deployments to production.

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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

AUGUST 28, 2019

Does your team have to keep two sets of “books”? You have an agile roadmap to see where you're headed. Your team hates having to translate the agile planning into more traditional planning. If you're in this pickle, your manager might think your agile team doesn't replan very often. Placate the Manager.

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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. I always estimate how long my books take. I'm still experimenting with my book writing to make it faster.).

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

Yes, ask the cultural fit questions before you ask the technical skills questions. Especially if you want to use agile approaches. They want to know if the work is something they want to do, and if the company culture is a good fit for them. That's because people who fit with the organization can learn fast.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. What about those cultural changes? This is not an agile approach. Every effort has risks.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A potential client wanted to engage many coaches with “deep” agile and lean experience. Yes, books, not articles.). Each team was supposed to use a “standard” agile approach. Teams worked on different products with differing kinds of problems to solve. No one's thinking about the company culture.

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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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Agile Energy Retail Case Interview 39

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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Agile Software Case Interview Video 28

Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Maybe even draw a picture of when the story/product completes. (I All the ways John's code connected—or didn't—to the rest of the product. In addition, they work to simplify their code and the entire product. Or, they might create tools that assist the rest of the people on the product. ” They might not.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Emotional intelligence helps you build better relationships, reduce workplace stress, create productive conflict and improve employee retention. Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. Culture is one of the most potent forces in business. I experienced the importance of cultural agility early in my career.

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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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Management Productivity Guidelines Consulting 97

Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. They keep customers happier.

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Agile Methodologies Software Development 28

Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

At the same time, the amount of information in any domain is unprecedentedly huge – courses, books, education websites, blogs, etc. So, we’d like to give you guidance in this flow of resources – we’ve selected 11 project management books that any successful project manager should discover. What else will you find in this book?

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Management Handbook Case Study Case Studies 11

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

JUNE 15, 2020

The more we want an agile organization that might be able to bounce forward , the more we need to create an environment of thinking and trust. Your policies create your culture. Your policies create and refine your actual culture. And, the more business agility we want, the fewer constraints we need.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2021

As I've been speaking about the Modern Management Made Easy books, people ask these questions: We're pretty good with our agile approach. These people tell me their career ladder doesn't work to enhance agility. Organizations reward people as individuals—but agility demands collaboration. What do we do?

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Instead, I spend most of my time on product issues across the organization. The next bit of time I spend working alone on the product work.” “Why do you spend all this time doing the product work yourself? “Why do you spend all this time doing the product work yourself?” All technical practices.

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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. And why we might want to use internal project or product space to keep track of decisions. On the Maintainable podcast, Robby Russell often interviews people about technical issues. Not this time! One-on-ones.

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Agile Energy Interviews Meeting 52

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

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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Johanna Rothman

MAY 31, 2023

Many nonfiction writers start books with outlines. Or, some writers (raises hand) are prone to put everything she ever learned about this topic into one book. Either of those problems make it difficult to finish a book before the writer dies. Either of those problems make it difficult to finish a book before the writer dies.

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Education Agile How To Productivity 97

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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Productivity Management Engineering Case Interview 28

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The original signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development wanted to solve these specific problems: How can we: Bring more adaptability to software development? Before the Manifesto, we had plenty of books and articles that discussed more lightweight approaches. That's just books. The Context for the Manifesto.

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Agile Software Productivity Culture 66

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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LSA Global

DECEMBER 28, 2022

When we ask participants in our new manager training workshops to list the attributes of great leaders, the most common are: self-awareness, learning agility , communication , and influence. They subtitled their book The Quiet Power that Elevates People and Organizations. Harvard Business Review agrees. Harvard Business Review agrees.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover, and the loss of the most capable talent. In our book Time, Talent and Energy , we note that when employees aren’t as productive as they could be, it’s usually the organization, not its employees, that is to blame.

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Company Energy Tools Talent 53

Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Reform your team’s meeting habits to boost productivity and business impact as a CEO (a post-pandemic approach). Too many meetings will slowly weaken productivity by splintering everyone's work into small chunks and reducing their time for deep work. Once fun and collaborative workplace cultures can easily become a drag of meetings.

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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. Culture requires management involvement.

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