Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 20, 2021

Jeffrey, Squirrel, and I continued our conversation on the Troubleshooting Agile Podcast, with Part 2. We addressed more of the Modern Management Made Easy principles. We had a great discussion about several of the principles in the Modern Management Made Easy books: Empathy. Should we even have managers? (I

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing Stefan Wolpers about his new book: The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide: Challenges Every Scrum Team Faces and How to Overcome Them.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I had fun with Ian Gill on his Agility by Nature podcast: A Conversation with Johanna Rothman about the Modern Management Made Easy books. We spoke a lot about what managers can do in practice as opposed to theory. And we discussed the fact that management differs from technical work in many ways. We laughed a lot.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 18, 2021

I had the pleasure of being on the Agile Uprising Podcast: Modern Management Made Easy with Johanna Rothman. We had a wide-ranging discussion, including: What the manager's job is (and is not). Why, if people manage through the seven principles, we don't need to use transparency and communication as principles.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

I had a great time on the Agile Coffee podcast, 75. Managing with Coffee. We spoke about a variety of issues that managers, teams, and people encounter, such as: Culture and how that plays out at all levels. The role of the manager: to create an environment where everyone can succeed. I hope you enjoy listening!

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 14, 2021

I had a great time with Jeff and Squirrel on their podcast, Troubleshooting Agile. We spoke about the Modern Management Made Easy books in Johanna Rothman on Modern Management Part 1. Here's a highlight idea from the podcast: a transition to management is a career change. We had a wide-ranging and fun discussion.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 13, 2021

I had great fun with Cherie Silas and Alex Kudinov on their podcast, “Keeping Agile Non-Denominational.” You've seen or heard about this problem: Senior leadership says, “Yes we need agility!” ” The teams say, “Yes, we got the agile goodness here!” ” And the middle managers?

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 17, 2018

I’ve been pair-writing a book with Mark Kilby , From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver. We’ve been working on this book for a year. We reflected a little on our success to date: We both want the best possible book. It’s much better because of our collaboration.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2021

How should agile coaches work? I've heard several questions and problems around what agile coaches should and should not do. Should agile coaches focus on: How well the teams use their pre-determined agile framework. Enroll (or somehow persuade) the managers in an agile mindset. (As I see this a lot.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 8, 2021

See Behaviors Create an Agile Culture with Johanna Rothman. We spoke about the Modern Management Made Easy books. In our wide-ranging discussion, we discussed the various traps that managers create or encounter: Rewarding heroics instead of collaboration. One-on-ones and how to use them to good effect. And much more.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 15, 2023

After I spoke with Chad and Jeff on the previous podcast, Deep Dive into Successful Independent Consulting with the Agile Wire , we spoke all about the idea of building products, starting with consulting-based products. … And more I'm having a technical problem with the Project Lifecycles book, so it's not quite ready to publish.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

Several people on social media have denigrated the terms “project manager” and “program manager.” ” 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. Facilitating the team's collaboration.

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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 1, 2018

You might remember I’m working on a book with Mark Kilby. It’s From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver. We just published a new version of the book. We rearranged the entire book. ” That one chapter might be all you need to create a successful distributed agile team. .”

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Ron Jeffries, Matt Barcomb, and several other people wrote an interesting thread about prescriptive and non-prescriptive approaches to team-based agile. If you don’t want to read the entire thread, here is a summary: People often need help with their agile approach. That’s why we have the agile values and principles.

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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 8, 2021

I had a terrific time with Chris and Austin on the Mob Mentality Show: Modern Management with Johanna Rothman. Is “mobbing” is the right word for management collaboration? However, the reasons we mob—to get all the people we need to learn and think together—those reasons work as well in management decisions.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 8, 2018

Mark Kilby and I have finished the first four chapters of From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver. If you don’t like to read books in progress, wait until we have more chapters done. If you don’t like to read books in progress, wait until we have more chapters done.

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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

AUGUST 4, 2020

I told the story of Cliff, a manager who wanted to understand why the projects were so late. ” I said, “Managers might spend as little as a quarter and as much as a year or two. .” ” In my experience, when organizations want to use agile approaches or transform in some way, the managers start with the teams.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2018

I’ve taught and written about agile distributed teams for several years. Now, I’m pair-writing a geographically distributed agile teams book with Mark Kilby. We’ll be talking about our process at Agile 2018 in an experience report. We’ve tweeted a little. We need your help. We need a title.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Years ago, Roy Osherove interviewed me about project management, agile thinking, hiring, and management. If you are not sure about effective management, listen to the interviews. See Johanna Rothman Interview – Agile, a Decade Later. We focused much more on agile issues in this interview.

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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

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

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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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

For example, people can read books. 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. The book is about 50-pages long with simple to-the-point language, a lot of cartoon-style drawings. They can watch videos on TikTok or YouTube.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 16, 2019

I suggested ways to think about more agile budgeting in part 1. That's because I manage my company in a similar way as your managers manage your organization. That's because I manage my company in a similar way as your managers manage your organization. Publish that book? I didn't tell you why.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Back at Agile 2018, I had a chance to record a podcast with Bob Payne. The recording is Johanna Rothman – Agile 2018. We discussed my experience report with Mark Kilby, the geographically distributed agile teams book with Mark , and my roadmapping session. I’ve known Bob forever.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

A couple of weeks ago, I delivered the first version of my Free Your Agile Team talk at Agile New England. I spoke about the problem of a framework-first approach to transforming to an agile culture. I also spoke about the plethora of team-based coaches and the insufficiency of management coaching. (I

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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

JANUARY 8, 2018

I had a great time recording with two of the guys from the Agile Uprising Podcast. See Create Your Successful Agile Project with Johanna Rothman. We discussed the book. I had an opportunity to rant and rave about many things: agile project managers (no, the term is not an oxymoron). I hope you enjoy the show.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2017

I have a new book in beta, Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver. I’m so excited about this book. My three most recent Pragmatic Manager newsletters were about jelled teams: The Case For Stable Teams, Part 1. The Manager’s Role in Creating Effective Teams, Part 3.

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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. I explain how you might do this in Create Your Successful Agile Project. Here and in the book, you can see prototype boards.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 15, 2024

This week, my 60 seconds of WIP is from the speaking book. This excerpt is from the speaking book. Martin Fowler, well-known in the agile community, once told me he purposefully created keynotes that were combinations of three fifteen to twenty-minute talks. Here’s the video on my YouTube Channel.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 21, 2021

See Agile FM – Johanna Rothman. We spoke about a number of ideas from the Modern Management Made Easy books: How to recognize and avoid micromanagement. Feedback loops and delays for managers. appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. I had a terrific time with Joe Krebs on his podcast.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Some managers wanted to prevent Bad Things from happening in the organization, so they added policies or procedures. Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see.

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