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With Agile Approaches, No Need to “Meet” or “Enforce” Deadlines

Johanna Rothman

He thought agile approaches would work to “meet” and “enforce” deadlines. I asked him these questions: Do you think people don't want to meet their deadlines? The company had deadlines because it wanted to meet market demands. These patterns make “meeting” a deadline impossible.

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Visualize Work to Reduce Agile Meetings

Johanna Rothman

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. When the team reduces its WIP, the team might be able to reduce the number of meetings. Often, in the form of Scrum.

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Large Features and Long Deadlines Mean You Have a Gantt Chart, Not a Roadmap

Johanna Rothman

The teams want to use an agile approach so they can incorporate learning. The managers might even think this is roadmap reflects an agile approach. There's nothing about this roadmap that's agile. You can decide if you need an agile approach. Demo on a regular cadence. The managers want rigid roadmaps.

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Time You Spend in Agile Meetings

Johanna Rothman

Whenever I teach agile approaches, I discuss the possible meetings a team might choose. They start adding up all the meeting time and say, “That’s a lot of meetings.” You might have these meetings: A retrospective once every two weeks. A backlog refinement meeting every two weeks.

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How to Create Partnerships Instead of Using Stakeholders

Johanna Rothman

” For years, I explained that the more often the team or program could demo, the more the project or program could engage its stakeholders. See Customers, Internal Delivery, And Trust for a recent post about demos and trust.) The more frequently you can demo, the more your partners can trust you to deliver something.

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How Scrum Masters Use Facilitative Leadership Especially When Planning, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

Then, offer some options for how to proceed, including changing meeting techniques. Facilitative Leaders Set Agendas I hate meandering, wandering meetings. That's why I wrote a chapter about meetings in Manage It! with a section called, “Cancel These Meetings.” Let me start with the agenda setting.

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Agile Project Manager, Scrum Master, or Product Owner?

Johanna Rothman

Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager? ” (You might like Why an Agile Project Manager is Not a Scrum Master.). She's an agile project manager. When she manages programs, she's an agile program manager. See a ton more about this role in Create Your Successful Agile Project.) Scrum is not her job.

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