Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. Team-based “agile” is not enough.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Agilent Technologies, separating from Hewlett Packard, turned to Deloitte to help facilitate the transaction and Deloitte in turn asked Steve Pratt to act as project lead. At the same time, a close friend of Pratt’s, Raj Joshi, was working hard, trying to develop new offshoring strategies that would keep Deloitte ahead of the field.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 18, 2023

To overcome inertia, businesses should foster a culture of innovation by creating space for employees to challenge the status quo and propose new ideas. For example, Google popularized the 20% Rule , under which it has traditionally allowed employees to spend up to 20% of their paid work time on developing personal projects.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

For example, can you identify a low, moderate, and high-intensity descriptive word for happy, sad, and scared feelings? Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. Culture is one of the most potent forces in business. Today's leaders face a growing number of cross-cultural differences when working with customers and employees.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Creating an aligned and high performance culture that sets the stage for peak performance is about a lot more than just designing a corporate strategy and deploying the resources to deliver on it. For example, a leadership competency we measure is the ability to Formulate a Concrete Strategic Vision.

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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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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 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 watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. What about those cultural changes? This is not an agile approach. Every effort has risks.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. They keep customers happier.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Culture is like the wind. For organizations seeking to become more adaptive and innovative, culture change is often the most challenging part of the transformation. But culture change can’t be achieved through top-down mandate. It is invisible, yet its effect can be seen and felt. He was proudly stating that!

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

McKinsey & Company discovered that data-driven firms are 23 times more likely to acquire customers , six times more likely to retain them, and 19 times more likely to be profitable than their counterparts without a data-driven culture. For example, let's say your organization's goal is to increase revenue.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

offices where employees were entrepreneurial, engaged, excited to come to work, and as a result were quickly developing new ideas for customer-facing products. developed practices of rapid development cycles , user-centered design , and collaboration in an open office layout. Managing Across Cultures. Pamela Hinds.

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Comatch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Kanban is a method for managing knowledge work developed by David J. Aside from Scrum, it’s the most important agile approach. The bank implemented the agile approach across all departments, not just IT. Many companies are currently in the process of implementing—or considering implementing—agile practices.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

Over time, it has become a necessity for the consulting industry to develop frameworks to address critical business problems with the help of big data. This investment was split between developing in-house capability and hiring external consultants. So, how does big data create value for consulting firms?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. See Agile Program Measurements to Visualize and Track Progress and Measure Cycle Time for my suggestions of what to measure. I have more ideas and a more in-depth discussion in Create Your Successful Agile Project.).

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Change agility requires an answer to the question “Why?”,

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Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

You can’t put new wine into old bottles, so whatever sophisticated technologies companies implement, without transforming people, culture, and processes in your company, even the most advanced of them will become a waste of money. . Developing talent and skills . ?ompanies Culture and Change: The Basis for Transformation .

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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. Translating content into local languages or adhering to local regulations are some classic examples.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 18, 2021

They think that the agile tools they use, such as boards, offer a strategic advantage. However, they adopt or “install” an agile framework or process without customization. Instead, agile organizations need flexibility, not rigidity. You develop unique answers for your business. What is our purpose?

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For example, if your CSF is improving service quality, you might use KPIs like average resolution time, first-time fix rate, or customer satisfaction scores to understand how you’re performing in this area. fusion development)? Does your culture enable problem-solving/exploration? Can you automate manual processes?

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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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Melissa Agnes

APRIL 11, 2016

True crisis preparedness requires more than a plan, it requires the right corporate culture. Part of ensuring the right corporate culture means adapting the right mindset. ” Information silos are a result of a mindset that tends to trickle down from the top and embeds itself into the culture of the organization over time.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Let us take one simple example – the pocket mice of the Bacardi desert in Arizona. An organization should focus on creating a culture that supports new ideas and encourages testing them out without fear of failing. By adopting an agile work culture, organizations can focus on training, collaboration and constant improvement.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

Where our clients struggle and where we see challenges is not in the area of new product development. 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. Download this podcast. Angelia Herrin, host.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. See Agile Program Measurements to Visualize and Track Progress and Measure Cycle Time for my suggestions of what to measure. I have more ideas and a more in-depth discussion in Create Your Successful Agile Project.).

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

A few common ways to ignite growth include additional funding, mergers and acquisitions, business model innovations, restructurings , reallocations and optimizations, digital transformations, diversification, market expansions, and new product development. Misaligned and Underestimated Cultural Norms. Each has pros and cons.

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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

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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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Once fun and collaborative workplace cultures can easily become a drag of meetings. Since 2020, due to working primarily remotely , people developed a tendency to compensate for less office presence with more digital meetings. How can the effective meeting culture be optimized? You can unsubscribe at any time.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

Based on my experience, here are three ways leaders can shift a company culture from a one-and-done focus on “training” employees in analytics to an “always on” focus on analytics adoption: Form competency centers. For example: Why do we analyze data? Create a leadership and development portal.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2020

Are you and your sales team agile enough? First, pull a cross-functional team together from sales, marketing, pricing, finance, legal, product development, and service to identify how to best stabilize, forecast, and optimize strategic accounts and the sales pipeline in the next 30 days. Is It Time to Pivot Your Sales Strategy?

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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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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

We call this subset of freelancers who do strategic work in companies or nonprofit organizations agile talent. Many of the benefits of agile talent have been widely reported. Tapping into your outside experts to help in the development of internal employees is a valuable way to address the needs of both.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Jane and Peter are developers, Tim is a tester. You'll still have test dependencies, but you'll eliminate the development dependencies. For example, every day, at 2pm, the team reviews all the code that is ready to review. Instead, we can consider a more holistic approach to code review and abolish those dependencies.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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