Johanna Rothman

MARCH 9, 2021

I said that when we focus on individual achievements and deliverables, we ignore the agile system of work. Worse, when we reward individual achievements we prevent an agile culture. That's because agile teams learn together as they create the product. Agile Behaviors for Learning and Working Together. Adaptability.

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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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Development Productivity Management Guidelines 89

Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

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

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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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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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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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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 31, 2022

I want to make those interruptions easier to manage. I still want to write more in the book. Backlogs help the managers stay out of the team's way. That's because the manager can look at the backlog and know what the team is doing. I see this in most of my management clients and at many of my team clients.

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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.

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

We manage the risks of long-term commitments (decisions) by gaining experience with that person in many circumstances. (I Create a yearly budget as a guideline for our specific goals, but manage that budget every week and month to manage our risks. That's how we manage all our decisions: the Important and the Urgent.

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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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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

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

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 5, 2023

See Manage It! BTW, I like product development teams that stay together, preferably on one product at a time. That helps to manage the risks of the people and their capabilities part of the pyramid. In my previous books, I assumed the two were linked by where the product was in its journey across the chasm.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 3, 2021

Sure by the end of being coached by you, someone might get rid themselves of false beliefs, bad job or toxic relationships and you might apply your 5-step process in your consulting, but that isn't what is going to get a client to excitedly book a free consult with you to learn more about what you do. Go to Amazon.

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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? also called sustainable pace) Most of my management clients feel torn. When teams collaborate, these managers have no idea how to assess anyone's performance.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

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. Then, I take that short form idea and develop that enough to run an experiment. Your product development is totally different from mine in that respect.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Soon after I published Manage Your Project Portfolio , I wrote an article, Project Portfolio Decisions–Decisions For Now. 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. Develop Your List of Topics.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Flow Efficiency In How Centralization Decisions Create Friction, Increase Cycle Time, and Cost Money, Part 1, I discussed how removing support staff for departments and managers created longer cycle times. Resource Efficiency Thinking Traps Many Managers And I said the managers were not stupid. Ignorance of the flow metrics.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 14, 2020

Several weeks ago, I posted my innovation principles , based on Modern Management Made Easy , book 3. I developed them because I was discovering the user journey through the book. Of course, I also created principles for managing yourself (Book 1) and for leading and serving others (Book 2).

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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. This post is based on a question posed to me on Quora.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 23, 2022

She said that as long as teams had sufficient hours of overlap, she didn't care where the managers hired people. However, now the managers have trouble reconciling how to offer fair compensation and benefits to all employees. You might have other benefits you're trying to manage across many locations.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

As part of their filtering process, potential clients/hiring managers want to see how you work. While managers think they will get useful results, too often, they don't. And because the hiring manager is only thinking of their time, they don't consider offering you any compensation for your time. That's fine.

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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. The edition will be helpful for both beginners and seasoned project managers.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 14, 2024

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers. 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. Today, I chose the book first.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Successful project delivery is usually a result of efficient management of both workflow and resources. 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. .

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

” It depends on how your lifecycle manages feedback loops and learning, how collaborative the team is, and how much WIP the team has. Each Lifecycle Manages Feedback Loops Differently Brooks wrote the original version of The Mythical Man-Month in 1975, based on the 1960s IBM 360 project. .” Brooks also said on p.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The most common conversation I have these days with discouraged employees below senior management levels goes like this: “This company’s bureaucracy is killing me. 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.

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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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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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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

When I sent my newsletter last month, Modern Management: Want Valuable Outcomes? 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.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

And, since the people on this team are already on feature teams (the POs) or on a program (the product manager), you might not have considered how these folks collaborate. And, since the POs work with their teams, they still need someone—a product manager—to elicit information from customers. Of course not.

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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. At that time, we still saw managers try to save money with licenses. The test repository.

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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. Why team members don't need to move “up” to management. The manager's role and how teams can work together. How to practice management, including one-on-ones and feedback.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 21, 2022

What issues will they bring to automotive project management, and what are the ways to address them? Its current development is primarily driven by 4 major trends: connectivity, autonomous vehicles, shared mobility, and electrification. The need to shorten the time for product development. Challenges in Automotive Projects.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2021

But I'm going to talk about a manager. Don, a CIO, attempted to “install” a common agile framework. However, the senior managers didn't change their actions. The middle managers actively acted against the framework. Which meant Don needed to learn with the middle managers. He asked about the framework.

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