Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 17, 2023

I'm reviewing experience report proposals for the XP 2023 conference. That might be for the organization or a specific product or project. The first was Mike Griffith's and my experience writing the Agile Practice Guide. See Bridging Mindsets: Creating the PMI Agile Practice Guide. I want to read this report!

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 18, 2022

The collocated Cambridge people often couldn't get a conference room. Since the company had “good technology” in the conferences rooms, the managers didn't want to pay for people to get a (duplicate) good audio/video setup in the office. However, the people couldn't access the conference rooms.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The first occurred at a conference, using an article I wrote. I went to a conference and saw someone was speaking about the project portfolio. This guy, from a famous agile consultancy, not only used my article. ” Remember, this was the premier agile consultancy at the time. Plagiarism occurs all the time.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2021

When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams, we discussed the fact that we no longer needed physical face-to-face interactions. High-fidelity virtual interactions didn't exist when the guys got together at Snowbird to write the Agile Manifesto for Software Development.). And our noses for odors.

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1 to 1

JULY 5, 2023

With thick wildfire-smoke clouds obscuring the New York skyline outside, NICE CEO Barak Eilam shared some cloud wisdom of his own at the recent NICE Interactions conference. AI is the long-awaited CX alchemist, conjuring up completely new ways that customer service and technology can be welded together,” Eilam told the conference audience.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

.” But when Mubarik Imam, head of growth and partnerships for WhatsApp, told the company’s extraordinary story to a group of high-level executives and technology experts at a conference in Palo Alto last year, the narrative was conspicuously free of digital breakthroughs or “aha!” ” moments.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. (I I didn't like what I saw at the Agile 2019 conference.) This part is about what “Agile” or “agile” means. I understand that people want what they perceive as the value “Agile” will bring them.

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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. Do You Need an Agile Approach?

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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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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 1, 2022

Coaching helps leaders shift assumptions and perceptions and adopt positive cross-cultural motivation, vision, and cultural agility. Executive coaches commonly use an hourly, value-based, retainer, or productized pricing. And a key outcome of executive coaching is improved emotional intelligence.

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Cheryl Cran

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Recently I had a conference call with a client who stated that they had a culture that has a spirit of collaboration but that their teams struggled with the behaviors of collaboration. Think of how much more innovative and productive organizations can be overall if the teams are truly working together. What’s the difference?

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Harvard Business

MAY 27, 2016

Stand-up meetings have become a routine part of the workday in many organizations, spread largely by the adoption of agile and other innovative management methods. When I was a managing partner at Accenture, our Organization & Change Strategy team helped design a new conference facility for one of our offices.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Forum participants will have an opportunity to learn from inspirational project management leaders as well as attend masterclasses revealing the aspects of delivering sustainable projects, Agile transformation, application of technologies, and more.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2017

And what we found in our interviews was an interesting reinforcement of our prior work on employer branding and agile talent. Research led by our Agile Talent Collaborative points out that project leads who manage freelancers don’t give enough specific feedback. Autonomy: Independence, seeking choice and flexibility.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. The digital economy is making significant contributions to global gross domestic product (GDP), outpacing global growth by 400 percent. percent global economic growth, according to recent estimates by the Conference Board. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2018

” But the good news is that we are not helpless, says Susan David, a founder of the Harvard/McLean Institute of Coaching and author of Emotional Agility. ’ Or, ‘I value generating a high-quality product for my client, so I want to be present on this call.’

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Harvard Business

JUNE 25, 2018

Not long ago, I asked 100 CEOs attending a conference how many of them were currently involved in a significant business transformation. More recently, we worked with the senior team of a large consumer product company which had been severely disrupted by smaller, more agile online competitors selling their services directly to consumers.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. For example, Qualcomm includes its agile talent when the team is in training.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

Shonda Rhimes, with four television shows simultaneously in production, is an entertainment industry titan. You cannot find my name, even though every journalism conference I go to they say have a public Facebook profile so you can interact with people, I cannot. VANDAL Photography/Getty Images. It is running a marathon.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

and Create Your Successful Agile Project. The closer to the left your products are, the more your managers might be open to changing their behaviors and the culture. A half-dozen of us sat around the conference table. The small-c culture in my team (we would call it a product team now) helped me learn a ton.

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