Agile Culture Demo Management 
Johanna Rothman
JANUARY 10, 2024
I see many teams and team members who say, “Agile stinks. ” When I ask people what's happening, they say: We're doing an agile death march because someone else already told us what we have to do and the date it's due. And don't get me started on how coaches tend to do life coaching instead of support for agility.)
Johanna Rothman
AUGUST 19, 2021
So when does it make sense to customize your agile approach to gain a strategic advantage? They want an agile approach, so they started with Scrum. The first was not waiting for the end of an iteration to demo or release. They demo'd every week on Wednesday mornings and then they released after the demo. We do what works.”
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Johanna Rothman
DECEMBER 11, 2019
I spoke with a project manager recently. I used to facilitate project teams as a project manager. Why a project manager? When I learned to manage programs, I managed programs like that, too. Then, we went “all-Scrum” so my managers called me a Scrum Master. Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager?
Johanna Rothman
OCTOBER 12, 2020
In the olden days, the project manager with the help of the team ranked.) Opportunities for More Agility. Because we release every time we finish a feature set, we have these opportunities for agility: Re-rank the remaining feature sets. See and demo the product as it grows. Part 5 Agile Approaches.
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.
Johanna Rothman
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. ” For years, I explained that the more often the team or program could demo, the more the project or program could engage its stakeholders. Demo that value on a regular cadence. Now, John Cutler has changed my mind.
Johanna Rothman
MARCH 22, 2023
Since I also write for project, program, and portfolio managers, you might not choose to read this post. Writers often need a different approach to manage everyone's expectations. How to Write for Secondary Readers Polly, a program manager, works with her program team to solve a cross-program problem: status reporting.
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