Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

I'm rewriting/reorganizing the Lead an Innovative Organization book. Flow efficiency at all levels. Let me address a little about business agility and innovation. Business agility allows us to create a culture where we plan to change. Deciding what not to do is often more effective than trying to be efficient.

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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. Now, it's time for Economies of Scale and how that ties into resource efficiency thinking. See the Wikipedia article.

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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. I've been talking about servant leadership.

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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? Agile teams always know who did what. I updated this in the book.) In agile organizations, peers offer this feedback, not (just) the managers.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

You don't want to reinforce resource efficiency, even though you rewarded the person for that all along. Instead, you want to reinforce flow efficiency. Discuss why you want flow efficiency and overall lower cycle time. You now realize that if you want an agile culture, you want the team to collaborate.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. 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. Learn and experience how agile works.

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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. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. Related Video.

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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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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

It’s wide-ranging from thinking about agile approaches as a way to improve organizational flow and what that means for us as humans. We had a wide-ranging discussion, about my fiction writing, my books, how agile approaches affect the organization and how people can think differently when the teams and managers use agile approaches.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

In early 2022, we conducted retrospectives for past client work (as you do in an agile team), and we've also found this pattern. But they need to be intentional, planned, prepared, and well-facilitated in advance in order to make them as efficient as possible. BOOK A CALL AND BOOST PRODUCTIVITY! You can unsubscribe at any time.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? The idea that organizational structure follows strategy is not new — business historian Alfred Chandler laid this out in 1962 in his book Strategy & Structure. Insight center.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Type 2: These are once-analog products that have now been converted into digital products, such as photography, books, and music. These products are typically sold as a service via digital distribution platforms (Audible.com for books, Spotify for music, Netflix for movies). Here too, digital natives dominate. Ford or Tesla?

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2021

I like agile approaches because I can separate lots of deliverables into small, coherent pieces. When I want to deliver books, I need a team to create a final delivery. See the Flow Efficiency series.). In fact, agile approaches make this kind of culture possible. This is a part of the series of leadership tips.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

I have a paper book from 1989.). Urgent decisions often mean the manager has several interdependent decisions to make: What and when to discuss the career ladder and salary bands with HR or senior leadership. The idea of resource efficiency instead of flow efficiency pervades management, too. It's urgent today.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

How could we organize if we want flow efficiency? Even before I knew about agile approaches, I spent a bunch of time creating unit tests and system tests so I could know that as I fixed/added/replaced code, I hadn’t introduced any problems. If you’re wondering, this is how I write books. Thinking about Refactoring.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

In these activities, speed of innovation is critical, and the rallying cry should be autonomy, small teams, and organizational agility. The focus here should be on repeatability and efficiency. Its more than 2,000 employees are organized into agile teams, called squads, which are self-organizing, cross-functional, and colocated.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Remember: No matter how large Contect gets, it will stay agile and motivated. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years. The lack of control meant that the leadership team had little say in how the Contect brand was being managed at a local level.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

Research for our book The Founder’s Mentality found that 85% of the time, the barriers to growth cited by executives at rapidly growing companies are internal — as opposed to, say, external threats such as unreceptive customers, a misread business opportunity or the moves of a dangerous competitor. That is rare.

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