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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 5: Summary

Johanna Rothman

I started asking if you actually need an agile approach in Part 1 and noted the 4 big problems I see. Part 2 was why we need managers in an agile transformation. Part 4 was about how “Agile” is meaningless and “agile” is an adjective that needs to be applied to something. That would be resilient.

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Minimum Requirements Documentation: A Matter of Context

Johanna Rothman

I use the guideline: If I can't write large enough on the front of the card to see, my story is too large. Note: In From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , Mark and I recommend any other approach than an agile approach if you don't have enough hours of overlap. for ways to use lifecycles other than waterfall or agile.

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Managers: Are You Responsible “To” or “For” People?

Johanna Rothman

We talk a lot about self-organizing teams when we talk about agility. These teams: Understood their goals for the products and services they developed or supported. Because especially agile teams might want to experiment with these practices on a regular basis. Self-Directed Teams Take Responsibility for Their Work Practices.

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Traits of an Organizational Structure Designed to Promote Employee Engagement

LSA Global

Why an Organizational Structure Designed to Promote Employee Engagement Matters Findings from our organizational culture assessment tell us that most employees feel like their companies are in a constant state of organizational flux driven by the accelerating pace of organizational change and never-ending industry disruption.

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See and Resolve Team Dependencies, Part 1: Inside the Team

Johanna Rothman

Jane and Peter are developers, Tim is a tester. You'll still have test dependencies, but you'll eliminate the development dependencies. You might even have a guideline that any code over two days old gets a code review, because the person working on that code might not realize they're confused. Mob on all the work.

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Leadership Tip 14: Reduce Other People’s Dependence on Your Decisions

Johanna Rothman

Overall faster decision-making, which allows for business agility. When I work with leaders, I hear reasons like this: I was the original architect or product manager or developer, so I know the most about the system (or product). Instead, can you offer guidelines and constraints so other people can make decisions?

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Faster Management Decisions Can Lead to More Ease and Better Results, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

Create a yearly budget as a guideline for our specific goals, but manage that budget every week and month to manage our risks. Market, product, culture, it doesn't matter what changes, the more frequently we plan to replan, the more we allow ourselves to notice changes.). If you couldn't tell, I explained this to myself as I wrote.