Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2021

One of my clients wants to use shared services “teams” as they start their agile transformation. Their developers work on a product for months and years at a time. ” Shared service-thinking denies the reality of effective product development: A cross-functional team learns together as they develop the product.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 5, 2023

That's because each project offers different value over the product's lifetime. See Product Roles, Part 4: Product Orientation and the Role of Projects for images of why we want ever-increasing product value, but why we might space the projects out.) However, today, I realized there are also product risks.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency, where we focus on watching the work, not the people. If you and your team have been practicing real agility, you might say these ideas barely show any agility at all.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2021

As I've been speaking about the Modern Management Made Easy books, people ask these questions: We're pretty good with our agile approach. These people tell me their career ladder doesn't work to enhance agility. Organizations reward people as individuals—but agility demands collaboration. Became a consultant.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On the ANE panel last night, an agile coach asked, “What's my path forward as an agile coach? Focus on business results, not agility per se. People who facilitate larger efforts, such as product leaders, portfolio managers, and most middle managers, feel the pressure to “deliver” or “perform.”

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 24, 2021

In Part 1 and 2 of this series, I wrote about how an agile approach might offer strategic benefits. And because an agile approach changes your culture, I said the agile approach was part of your strategy. So let's ask this question: Can any tool—agile or otherwise—offer you a strategic advantage? (I

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

I also know my cycle times to develop workshops and video them. All this collaboration and learning together means the team shares its product development. If you're a product leader, you need a product value team. No one can work alone for product development and know that they will make great decisions.

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Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 15, 2024

Marketing consulting services have emerged as invaluable partners for companies of all sizes and industries seeking to enhance their marketing results. The role of marketing consultants and the numerous benefits they offer are highly valuable to organizations. Maximizing marketing success through consulting services.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

That part discusses why managers see agile coaches and Scrum Masters as staff positions, not line jobs. I assume you have some sort of functional product development expertise. If not, why are you in technical product development? This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Several of my clients want to use some sort of maturity assessment for their agile transformations. For agile transformation, an assessment can help people see how they change—how they innovate the products and the culture. These are about the product development behaviors I see in the organization.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 26, 2021

They think agile approaches are tactics and agile tools are part of their strategy. That's why they want to Buy an agile approach. Worse, the longer they maintain their custom board, the more they spend on that internal product. And the less they have to spend on products that affect the customers.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 30, 2022

This is an agile way of working that does not require a lot planning and preparation. The series: How I Manage My Product Development: Ease with Continuous Flow (Day 1). How Cycle Time and Cost of Delay Makes Product Development Decisions Easier (Day 2). (Assuming you still have time in your workday.).

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

And even if you can find an agile coaching or Scrum Master job, the pay is so terrible, you don’t want to take it. That’s because these managers think agile coaching and Scrum Mastering is a staff job, not a line job. At what level do you understand the products you’ve worked on? Those are functional skills.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2020

In Costs of an Agile Approach for Hardware Products , I suggested that an iteration-based approach for hardware was too expensive. I focused on the actual development costs. Agile software teams are cross-functional and interdependent. Many agile software teams have somewhere between four and seven people.

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Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 11, 2024

Creating a skin care product line is a nuanced endeavor that demands a blend of creativity, scientific precision, and industry knowledge. Business consulting services, particularly those specializing in the beauty and skincare sector, play a crucial role in navigating the complexities of bringing a new brand and product line to life.

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Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 30, 2024

Whether launching a startup, navigating the complexities of a small business, or steering a large enterprise through expansion, the benefits of business consulting services are profound. Through business consulting services , companies can gain business help. Unleashing business potential with the help of business experts.

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Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 11, 2024

The critical role that consultants play in supporting e-commerce businesses cannot be overlooked. Leveraging consultants to gain critical digital support for any type and size business. Consulting services is smart business. Addressing the complexities with expert support.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 31, 2022

I don't have just one product for my business. And I'm not a team working on just one feature set or a product. However, when I switched to continuous flow, I have a different approach to my planning and sizing of my work: I have a yearly strategy with the answers to who I serve with which products and services. What happened?

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 18, 2024

Remember this: If your customers want to use your product, make it easy for them to do so. Because product problems cause several other problems: The customers have to decide if the aggravation of using this product outweighs the defects. Customers will not wait forever for you to fix problems in your product.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Back in Part 1 , I wrote about how stage-gate approaches were as agile as we could use at the time. We had one delivery, so our agility was about canceling the project if we couldn't finish it. Barry Boehm developed the spiral model. We develop test plans early. Opportunities for Agility. The Spiral Model.

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 5, 2024

Technology and digital consulting services have emerged as catalysts for business transformation, enabling companies of all sizes and types to upgrade, innovate, and enhance their digital infrastructure and footprint. Let’s explore how consulting services in technology and digital realms benefit businesses across the spectrum.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For years, managers have been trying to find ways to make software product development faster and easier. “Agile” as a way to do much more work in much less time. (NO! AI to take the place of humans in product development. The faster we can learn, the faster we can release the product.

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Clarity Consultants

JUNE 30, 2023

Employing a team of strong workers can help you get through these unknown times, which is why investing in employee development is crucial. Learning new skills and competencies is the bread and butter of a learning and development program. Providing learning and development opportunities does just that.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 21, 2021

When I think about agile approaches to work, I think about how fast we can change and the cost of those changes. That's why an agile approach with deliverables every day or week doesn't fit with some kinds of projects, such as events. Here, I assume you want multiple releases for your product.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2024

Every day, I hear more stories of agile coaches or Scrum Masters losing their jobs. Several reasons: No manager cares about “agile” even if they care about agility. So, selling “agile” into the organization doesn’t create any traction for change. You might not like these ideas.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Once the team completes that highest priority feature(s), the team can release the product. When we release, we can regroup and figure out what to do next for this product. Fork another product. (I I did this with several Lite vs Pro products using this approach.). Opportunities for More Agility.

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Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 19, 2024

Technology consulting services have emerged as essential partners for retail brands seeking guidance and expertise in managing their online platforms effectively. Explore the role of technology consultants in helping retail brands optimize their online infrastructure and implement cutting-edge e-commerce solutions through consulting services.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Daniel Vacanti and Prateek Singh graciously invited* me to be on an episode of Drunk Agile: Episode 37 Johanna Rothman Part Deux More Bigger Aging. Ordering the work by value, even though agile approaches hope the value changes. (Re)defining That's why agile approaches emphasize “finish something and get feedback on it.”

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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.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 11, 2021

Worse, most career ladders assume we can assess what a person can do, not on their contributions to an agile team. That means most career ladders don't fit agile teams or an agile culture. Instead of individual achievements, we can reward the types of agile leadership we want to see in agile teams.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The original signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development wanted to solve these specific problems: How can we: Bring more adaptability to software development? For example (books have affiliate Amazon links): Takeuchi and Nonaka published The New New Product Development Game in HBR in 1986.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2021

He thought agile approaches would work to “meet” and “enforce” deadlines. I asked Brad these questions: Do you have product or feature teams that are cross-functional and can release alone? ( Component teams create interdependencies and take much more time to finish work.). Why do you have deadlines?

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Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Through a combination of add-on acquisitions, capital investment, and the integration of three portfolio companies, a leading private equity firm transformed a local artisanal food manufacturer into a national company with a range of products and a portfolio of brands. Two senior team members were onboarded. Let's talk CONTACT BRIMSTONE.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Are you trying to make an agile framework or approach work? Maybe you've received a mandate to “go agile.” Or, maybe you're trying to fit an agile framework into your current processes—and you've got a mess. I've seen plenty of problems when people try to adopt “agile” wholesale.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 6, 2022

They want a single product roadmap to serve all these purposes: Focus the team's work for this specific product for the short term. Show customers where the company thinks the product is headed. The more specific overview of when salespeople might expect new features or new products.). What management thinks they want.

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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? Because your context is unique to you, your team, project, product, and culture. Remember, an agile approach starts with a team.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Isn't every iterative and incremental approach an agile approach? We often hear agile approaches are a mindset. An agile approach requires a change in culture at the team level, at the portfolio level, and in management. Agile approaches change what we discuss, how we work together, and what we reward. Release trains.

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