Tom Spencer

APRIL 5, 2024

To develop this understanding, product managers actively engage with customers through surveys, interviews, and user testing. Adopt an Agile Mindset The ability to embrace an agile mindset is a hallmark of great product managers.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Ryan Ripley, host of Agile for Humans, interviewed Gil Broza and me in AFH 102: The Influential Agile Leader. We spoke about the workshop I lead with Gil, the Influential Agile Leader. If you are interested in helping your agile transformation, do listen to the podcast and join us for the conversation.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 5, 2023

link] Cross-Cultural Strategy #1: Culturally Agile Leadership Leaders increasingly face cross-cultural differences working with diverse customers and employees. Cross-cultural differences require leaders with cultural agility. Successful, culturally agile leaders can see themself through another person's perspective.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 3, 2021

Most of these consultants and coaches love what they do. They are not sitting up at night wondering how to find a coach that will unlock their authenticity or a consultant who has a 5-step methodology for aligning people, processes and profits. One of my favorite things to write and talk about is copywriting. Go to Amazon.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 9, 2018

Ryan Ripley interviewed me on his podcast, Agile for Humans 83 about Create Your Successful Agile Project. I didn’t stint on my opinions or on my experience with agile teams. I don’t find it useful in an agile project unless you use incremental funding. We had a blast. That’s me.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2020

We collaborated with LucidMeetings to create this wonderful new class about hiring: How to Discover, Interview, and Hire Amazing Remote People. The content is based on these books: From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Guidelines for interview duration and the interview matrix. Hiring Geeks That Fit.

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QEmploy

MAY 9, 2019

This article will look into the consulting industries current pitfalls and future in terms of transparency and digitalization. Interviews have been conducted with clients and consultants in order to give a realistic and broad outlook. Finally, and from a female perspective, permanently hired consultant, Nadia Kondrup.

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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

JUNE 18, 2018

Consultants and writers share a common problem: we are business owners. The great Joanna Penn interviewed me and the podcast is now live: Strategy And Business Plans For Authors With Johanna Rothman. Why did she interview me? She was surprised a business consultant could have a sense of humor. Insert eye roll here.).

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Comatch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

More than ever, organizations are using independent experts and freelance management consultants to address critical challenges. In a recent webinar, I addressed some of the typical issues that arise when working with a freelance management consultant. Independent Consultants: Risks and Reality Checks.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

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. Rather than debating the advantages of agile teams, why not start demonstrating them? Perhaps my journey to agile will help you figure out how to begin your own.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 3, 2021

On the Maintainable podcast, Robby Russell often interviews people about technical issues. We discussed the Modern Management Made Easy books among other topics: A little about the origins of agile approaches. Not this time! The issue of “too many meetings” and why they might need to be called something else.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

I started this series with many specific concerns about a particular interview question: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. Note: This is a terrible interview question because it's hypothetical. Agility requires a collaborative cross-functional team. Not one person.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Tom Cagley interviewed me for his Software Process and Measurement Cast (podcast) a couple of weeks ago and the podcast is live. See SPaMCAST 468 – Johanna Rothman, Create Your Successful Agile Project. The post Guest on Tom Cagley’s SPaMCast 468 appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. As consultants we see this pendulum swing all too often. What is “center-led”.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Organizes the interview in ways that clarify the ideas. The post Discussion of Modern Management Made Easy with Scott Hanselman appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. Listen to our conversation on Modern Management Made Easy with Johanna Rothman. I started listening to Scott's podcast a couple of years ago.

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LSA Global

MAY 25, 2022

Conducted 360-degree interviews with key People Team leaders and influencers. To create executive team alignment, LSA Global: 1. Assessed the Current Situation. Reviewed previous business plans, employee feedback, and key growth processes. Shifting from a victim and reactive mindset to a accountable and proactive mindset.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I subscribe to his podcast because I like the way he interviews guests. The post Catch Me on the People and Projects Podcast 337 appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. Full disclosure: I met Andy back in 1999 at the Software Development conference. So we've known each other for a long time.

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BCG

DECEMBER 12, 2016

But while many companies are restructuring their governance to become digital ready, there is still much to be done in terms of implementing agile at scale, capitalizing on open innovation, and hiring new digital talent. With new attackers appearing all the time, digital transformation is seen by many as the only path to survival.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

Standard agile approaches like Scrum and SAFe work pretty well for that. In the past couple of years, IBM Global Technology Services undertook its own agile transformation. I interviewed the leaders of many fabled Scrum companies, agile certification firms, and some Big 4 consultants, but the advice we got was all product-focused.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 2, 2019

Here's how I think of the various agile product roles: product managers, product owners, and business analysts. I do not like “Chief Product Owner” because I don't like “Chief” anything in an agile approach. BAs might interview customers and potential customers to help everyone understand what's going on.

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Asamby Consulting

MARCH 17, 2023

Organizational development can help small businesses develop the agility and resilience they need to adapt to changing market conditions. Small business owners can use a variety of tools and techniques, including surveys, focus groups, and interviews, to gather data.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Assume that people have lives and it’s worth your time to phone-screen people before you ask them to come in for an interview. Respect your candidates by preparing for the interview. Learn how to have a conversation in an interview (with questions and auditions). However, they are better than anything I know.

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QEmploy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Freelance Consultants bring value to your company in 2019. In the last 5 years, everyone has been talking about the “Sharing Economy, Gig Economy and Freelance Consultants”.The In the last 5 years, everyone has been talking about the “Sharing Economy, Gig Economy and Freelance Consultants”.The 5 Reasons (G?i?g? Gig Economy.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In How Product Goals Make it Easier to Create Sprint Goals and Reduce Feature Factories, Part 1 , I started responding to Tom's interview question. Let's start with the reason we plan anything in an agile approach. ” All agile approaches limit WIP (Work in Progress). ” There's a reason I say, “next bit.”

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Back in Part 1 of this series, I explained all the problems I saw with this interview question: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I recommend the team end an iteration in the middle of a week. The interview question I started with.)

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

A colleague, Tom, told me about this question he received in an interview: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. and Create Your Successful Agile Project.) I am sure I'm not the only person who's seen this problem in agile teams, especially when they use Scrum.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 31, 2018

I think that personal travel and strategy consulting go hand-in-hand, and I would even posit that those that have not travelled are at a serious disadvantage in the consulting world. Being a Good Consultant. But travelling also nurtures and requires key traits that are present in a good consultant. Being at Home.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. They allow a company to be more agile and to more effectively adapt to digital disruption. Can you run fast and go deep at the same time?

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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. is the largest Agile conference in Central Europe. PMO London 2024 June, 18-19.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

For example, one MNC we interviewed would give all local teams price lists fixed in USD and determined by U.S. HQ without consulting them. The company’s local team was thus compelled to offer non-monetary incentives to avoid losing customers, including marketing support, consulting services, and others.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But that's not what I see in my consulting. I suspect that the people who framed the interview question have not yet seen an integrated team, where the product owner is a valuable member of that team. Instead, I don't see a product value team. And I see too little corporate discussion of why this strategy or why these tactics.

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Emerson Consulting Group

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

The hardest thing was to commit to what is (to me) a relatively expensive process in ‘blind faith,’” admits Jim Edholm, President of Business Benefits Insurance, a consulting firm focused on planning employee benefits. “If a strategic management and operations consulting firm that helps businesses implement breakthrough strategies.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

A nurse-midwife we interviewed told us, “Sometimes I feel that being both a nurse and a midwife exposes me to the critiques people have about both professions, and at the same time, being both means that I am not sheltered by either because I am always an ‘other’ inside those groups. Do others think of you this way?

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

Our team is made up of highly-skilled, senior-level consultants from a wide range of backgrounds—educators at top universities, serial entrepreneurs, former C-suite executives, and seasoned process consulting experts. The post 31 books on leadership and change appeared first on Brimstone Consulting LLC.

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