Johanna Rothman

JUNE 3, 2020

The processes don't have sufficient agility to deliver the necessary results. Yet, people who want to use agile approaches don't want to apply agile thinking to their processes. Some clients want to create their custom agile process— and then standardize it across the organization. My Processes and My Agility.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 4, 2019

I just finished a series for my Pragmatic Manager newsletter about Agile Transformation Secrets: Part 1: Manage for Change. I wrote this series because I find that many people get a little confused about an agile transformation. They think an agile approach will work because they can predict and commit better. Please join us.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a customized Leading Leaders Workshop. Learn more about getting aligned.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The leaders in the Facilitative Leadership Workshop faced the following challenges: High expectations to take, promote, and encourage a cross-functional and program focus vs. the predominant product and function focus that most of their internal customers follow and are rewarded for. Learn more about getting aligned.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I've met a number of agile coaches recently. Even though the client asked for agile coaching, that might not be what the client needs. Even though the client asked for agile coaching, that might not be what the client needs. These questions have nothing to do with a “better agile” or “better Scrum.”

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 15, 2024

Martin Fowler, well-known in the agile community, once told me he purposefully created keynotes that were combinations of three fifteen to twenty-minute talks. While workshops often require some time where you talk, you can choose to design a workshop, so people mostly work and learn from debriefing.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

See Project Lifecycle Workshop: How to Manage Project Risks to Release Successful Products.) I said this in the Successful Indepentent Consulting book : People die of exposure—both hot and cold. Yet, I suspect some new consultants will take them up on their offer. This is one of an intermittent series of consulting tips.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 1, 2023

I met Mark back in 2017 when I attended an Anthology workshop from the nice folks at WMG Publishing. I sold two short stories at that workshop, my very first short story sales. For you agile types, Mark runs his podcast as a reflection—a retrospective—of what he learned from speaking with the guest.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 9, 2019

Now that agile teams stay together, we can change the kickoff to more project-specific work. I wrote an article several years ago, Keys to Chartering an Agile Project. In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I suggested a reframe for the charter. Many new-to-agile-thinking teams want everything defined upfront.

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LSA Global

MARCH 6, 2023

Influence How to engage others by clearly and concisely articulating ideas for improving business results, motivating others to say yes, and role modeling resilience, adaptability, and change agility in periods of organizational, environmental, and business change. Learn more about getting aligned.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 3, 2019

At the Influential Agile Leader workshop earlier this year, I led a session about scaling and how you might think about it. I asked if any of the teams succeeded at using an agile approach at the team level. I explained how in Agile and Lean Program Management.). ” Agile Scaling is the Answer to Whose Problems?

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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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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 15, 2018

Part of what makes an agile transformation difficult is the cultural change required. That’s what makes an agile transformation a journey. A client said to me, “I want the agile. The agile is good stuff: faster delivery of smaller stuff that we can get revenue for. I want it now. How fast can I get it?”

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 20, 2021

We talk a lot about empowered or self-organizing teams in the agile community. When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , we said the easiest way to create a system that worked for the team was for the team to create its own board. Agile Approaches Require Management Cultural Change.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 9, 2022

I use “agile” and “agile approach” in my writing. I don't talk about the Agile Manifesto for Software Development every time. If you want to learn more writing secrets, and register for the April 2022 writing workshop, see Writing Workshop 1: Free Your Inner Writer & Sell Your Nonfiction Ideas.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As a consultant, I create many kinds of information products: both writing and speaking. The image to the left, from Successful Independent Consulting , shows the interaction between my writing and speaking. That feedback arises from my writing, speaking, and consulting. I use that feedback to build more MVPs.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2018

I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. Without knowing why you want to use agile approaches throughout the organization, you can’t generate reasonable measurements.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 16, 2019

I suggested ways to think about more agile budgeting in part 1. I can also predict how long it takes me to create or customize an in-person workshop. I have an upper bound for online workshops. Also, see From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Use the data you need to have a more agile approach.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2018

Are you looking to help support your team, management, or organization’s agile adoption? Do you feel as if you are part of the formal or informal team leading your agile transformation? You need what Gil Broza and I teach and facilitate at the Influential Agile Leader Workshop. How Do You Tell Your Agile Story?

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

See the video on YouTube: Johanna Rothman: Writing, Management, & Business Agility ?| Agile to agility | Miljan Bajic | #47. The writing workshop we mentioned now has its own page: Free Your Inner Writer & Sell Your Nonfiction Ideas.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Introduction to an Agile Transformation series… I’ve seen several agile transformation challenges. Since I want to address those challenges, this is a series of posts about agile transformation. The problems I’m planning to address are: Understanding why agile, why now. You might have another reason.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 30, 2022

I finished one week of the videos for the writing workshop. Finish another week of videos for the writing workshop because I want to announce it “soon.” And the writing workshop will make more money sooner than the book will. My cycle times for my various work: About an hour to complete the videos for workshop week.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2018

As their organizations move to agile approaches, these managers have problems: their organization (managers above them) wants to measure them by the old rules which demand control. ” Too often, managers feel this tension because the agile approaches challenge the organizational culture. .”

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

” These people claim there is no need for either role in an effective team, especially an agile team because the team can manage its own deliverables. While some agile teams can manage their own deliverables, that's not the only role for a project or program manager. Yes, I teach these workshops for each book remotely.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. During that workshop, the participants all had the same question, “How do we engage our stakeholders? Adam, a product leader, has changed his meetings and workshops. What do they get out of this partnership?

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 23, 2022

Even if you're not part of an agile team, highly collaborative teams have trouble identifying who contributed what. This newsletter touches on topics in From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver and Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization ?.). The next public writing workshop will be in Q4.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 18, 2018

Consultants and writers share a common problem: we are business owners. We were both at a business-of-writing workshop with Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch. She was surprised a business consultant could have a sense of humor. Joanna and I have similar names—which often makes for humor in the workshop.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2020

See Lessons Learned from Leading Workshops About Geographically Distributed Agile Teams for data from some of my previous workshops.). The post Teams Need to See Each Other—Eventually appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. They (re)build trust. We don't need a ton of in-person meetings.

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Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

This includes educating users on how to use Epicflow effectively: conducting training sessions/workshops or providing online tutorials to familiarize users with the software’s features and functionalities. We will use the serious game workshop as an enabler for understanding the value of Epicflow Step 2.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

When Mark and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams, we saw these satellite team traps: People in the office forgot about the people not in the office. While we might call all these things, “meetings,” let's assume the team will workshop. Monday through Thursday, the team is a satellite.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 11, 2022

Notes from previous workshops I wanted to integrate when I updated those workshops. Over the past year, as I realized the pandemic would probably change what and how I offered for workshops, I've slowly recycled or filed all that paper. The ideas for updating the workshops, not the notes themselves. That's what I'm doing.

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Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Our process includes a series of one-on-one meetings and workshops with the new leader and the leadership team to identify current realities both internal and external to the organization, barriers to alignment, and opportunities. The post Accelerate results in your first 90 days appeared first on Brimstone Consulting LLC.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 31, 2022

I finished all the video editing for the writing workshop. Because there's more work to finishing the workshop, I'm sure I will not finish the workshop today. Those purchase orders are much larger sums of money than an online workshop or revenue from a book. The marketing for that workshop is also separate.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

You want to present a talk, workshop, experience report at a conference. (Or, I got the idea for this series from Chris Murman's talk at Agile 2019 and from all my shepherding for the Agile 20xx and XPxx conferences. (If For example, I only offer talks for people using agile approaches or trying to. Not for work.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

This is one of the reasons Mark and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Your team might not need an agile approach. In the early 2000s and into the teens, I led many workshops for distributed teams. Now, as I write this series, the coronavirus is winging its way around the globe.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 17, 2020

We have been working with leaders to achieve accelerated results and (re)build a stronger, more agile organization, by taking their team through the Senior Team Alignment Process (STAP). The process is agile, fast, flexible, and time competitive. The process is agile, fast, flexible, and time competitive.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

I spoke with an agile coach whose team works in flow, similar to this board. The column on the left, “Stories to Workshop” is their backlog refinement column. Especially on the Workshop column. Agile approaches let us finish when we're done—not when we've done it “all.”

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