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? Learn and experience how agile works. What can I do?”

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Full disclosure: I met Andy back in 1999 at the Software Development conference. How we might want to say, “serving” leadership instead of “servant” leadership. The post Catch Me on the People and Projects Podcast 337 appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

See Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility and Unearthing Your Project's Delays.) Inventory might have value for physical products, but it rarely does for software products. In software, we want less WIP (Work in Progress), which is a form of inventory. Want to Rethink Your Management or Leadership?

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 28, 2019

See the various kinds of products in Tactical Ideas for Agile Budgeting, Part 1 or in Manage Your Project Portfolio.). I wrote about that in Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 1, Think in Feature Sets and in Create Your Successful Agile Project. And, you'll want to create experiments, with a high rate of change.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2018

During Agile 2018, Jerry Weinberg died. How to think about steering instead of controlling in the Quality Software Management series. Take Jerry’s leadership into your thinking and you might surprise yourself. Shane Hastie and I had already agreed to do a recording of some sort while at the conference. I’m human.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2020

Hmm, I might need to write a post about supposedly agile teams and their costs to fix defects.). I hate the word bug applied to software. See the Wikipedia article about the origins of Software Bug. Neither of those accurately describes software problems. Let's start with the words we use. Bugs fly in from the outside.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 22, 2020

Even if you use an agile approach, you still can't create an impossible project. These folks had a software-only product, so their agile approach helped them finish work. The teams chose to: Use an agile approach. Notice that an agile approach buys you ways to break the constraints and create more floats.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Agility Evolution Agile transformation represents an ongoing effort to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the organization. Leading organizations have the agility and flexibility needed to respond to disruptions, evolve with market conditions, and act on emerging trends without clunky processes holding them back.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve, a software development manager, thought John was a “10x” developer. You now realize that if you want an agile culture, you want the team to collaborate. Agile thinking and culture shows us that no, we don't. He explained that John could: Coded faster than anyone else. “Mind-meld” with the users.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Even when we had boxed software, that was less risky than trying to manage an impossible project. Agile approaches help us manage a ranked feature set in a specific time period (even if we don't use iterations). In my experience, unless you have infrequent deliveries, you don't have two constraints. You have one constraint.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 8, 2017

It took another month for the software to be ready.). I do this in agile organizations as a matter of course.). The post Build Respect in Organizations, Not Families, Part 3 appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. I took my vacation. (It Never refer to a human as a resource. They set the time.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

In addition to the “technical side” of project management, the author shares his ideas regarding effective stakeholder management, trust-based leadership, and effective decision-making as well as gives a variety of tools and techniques that can add value to your daily project management activities.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Volkswagen’s software that allowed diesel engines in its vehicles to cheat on emissions tests is another case of a top-down fixed strategy that suffered in implementation. Bob Lutz, who held leadership roles at General Motors, BMW, Ford, and Chrysler, describes a “reign of terror” that had long prevailed at VW.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

I think it’s similar to the Big Ball of Mud antipattern in software. The post Possible Organization Changes for a Product Approach, Part 5 appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. That looks like a big deal, right? We need to change behaviors in teams and in managers. That way, people can learn early.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

After all, roles like captaining a college field hockey team or editing a school literary magazine provide valuable leadership experience. ” CQ, according to Hill, is a critical component of leadership “given the complexity of management today. She also suggests asking, “How do you spend your time outside of work?

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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

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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Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2017

When freelancing is your primary source of income, you have to be meticulous and organized about keeping your books, according to Jon Younger, the founder of the Agile Talent Collaborative , a non-profit research organization and the coauthor of Agile Talent. “It is a critical aspect of your reputation.”

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

Investors who have flooded the cybersecurity market in search for the next software “unicorn” have yet to realize that when it comes to a risk as complex as this one, there is no panacea — certainly not one that depends on technology alone. When we say all employees have to be risk agile, we mean all.

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