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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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Our culture shapes our language. And, our language shapes our culture.) We reinforce a culture of resource efficiency. Sometimes, we reinforce a project culture where teams break up after they’re done with the project.). We reinforce a culture of flow efficiency.

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Efficiency Culture Agile Productivity 84

Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

For example, a product leader needs to be available to the team during each day to answer questions and accept stories. Partner, Not Stakeholder The more business agility you want, the more partnerships across the organization you need. See Modern Management: Three Tips To Create A Congruent Culture.)

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How To Efficiency Meeting Productivity 124

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. As the teams used agile approaches, they requested more and more frequent deployments. A lot of the friction we see is anti-agility. For example, do you plan to have a shutdown for the Christmas period?”

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

See Schedule Game #11: The Schedule Tool is Always Right as an example.). I wrote a series about that, starting with Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics, Part 1.). They think the tool will do “everything” for them. I have nothing against tools. However, starting with a tool?

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Tools Agile Metrics Data 109

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. 1,2 and so on.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

The main objective for each project is value-add for the client, and technology can improve both the effectiveness of the solutions offered as well as the efficiency with which those solutions are created. It is also important to understand new digital tools and how they can impact our daily lives.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

But a lucky few react with a degree of strategic clarity and mental agility that allows them to adapt with relative ease. According to recent McKinsey research, successful agile transformations deliver almost 30% improvements in efficiency, customer satisfaction, employee engagement, and operational performance.

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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. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. 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. Learn and experience how agile works. What can I do?”

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Agile Energy Retail Case Interview 39

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

This is a common example of risk theater.) Created Gantt charts even though the team worked in an agile way. The managers reinforce people as experts, which is an example of resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. He now pointed them to the done-and-not-released chart. See Knowing When You Release Value.)

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

See the Flow Efficiency series.) 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.). Here are some examples: Demos, even of partially working product.

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Management Agile Metrics Video 92

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. Efficiencies are lost in the cost of overhead. An Example. Programs and staff grow.

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Comatch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Work management methods ensure a workplace runs as efficiently as possible. 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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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.

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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. . ompanies that invest enough in digital talent have three times higher chances for efficient transformation.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

That's how you can create the culture you want.). If you use these delegation ideas, you will find you have time to have one-on-ones every week or two, depending on how agile your team is. This image is an example where a 6-person team primarily affiliates with the manager/leader, and no with each other.

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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. However, it's crucial to have a consistent and efficient method for tracking progress.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Instead of treating people as individuals (resource efficiency thinking), what if you looked at the team as a harmonic whole? For example, every day, at 2pm, the team reviews all the code that is ready to review. While the team marked them all as “done,” they weren't really. Some Choices for Inside the Team Dependencies.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

Many of us know this intuitively: best practices are optimized for a particular place and time and don’t necessarily transfer well between cultures. That’s how it is with practices that don’t quite fit another cultural context. Managing Across Cultures. What Leadership Looks Like in Different Cultures.

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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. Agility Evolution Agile transformation represents an ongoing effort to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the organization.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Successful project delivery is usually a result of efficient management of both workflow and resources. What do you need to know to manage project resources with maximum efficiency? What do you need to know to manage project resources with maximum efficiency? The results of efficient resource management are as follows: .

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Resources Management Emotional Intelligence Trends 52

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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Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

Creating transparency: Value is created when data is made accessible to relevant stakeholders in a timely manner, for example, in manufacturing if data from research and development, engineering and manufacturing is integrated to enable concurrent engineering. This can significantly cut time in the market and improve quality.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

See the Flow Efficiency series.) 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.). Here are some examples: Demos, even of partially working product.

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Management Agile Metrics Video 52

Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Once fun and collaborative workplace cultures can easily become a drag of meetings. In early 2022, we conducted retrospectives for past client work (as you do in an agile team), and we've also found this pattern. Other meeting formats often become redundant or merge for greater efficiency. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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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. That's because the managers think resource efficiency works. They don't realize how much more effective flow efficiency is.). Agile approaches break the idea of a “shared service” model of people. .

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

Driving digital transformation really means driving rapid, efficient, and high-ROI responses to those changes. 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

OCTOBER 8, 2018

There are at least two systems of work we need to change: The management system and the culture of management. How the teams work and their team culture. I’ve noticed these challenges in companies who want to move to a more product-oriented approach: The reward system rewards resource efficiency, not flow efficiency.

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QEmploy

MAY 9, 2019

Naturally, the client also has a higher expectation of the consultant, if they were ‘bought’ at a fee of 1200DKK/hr compared to 800DKK/hr, for example. This point comes down to the efficiency of the recruitment process, which is done through the means of screening and selection. This is where agile methodologies come in.

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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. Feature-Driven development.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 8, 2017

In addition, see the flow efficiency series. Here’s one small example: Although I insist on weekly or biweekly one-on-ones (depending on the person and circumstance), I work with people to find the right time for them to meet with me. I do this in agile organizations as a matter of course.). They set the time.

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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. By providing temporary support, they make it possible for organizations to resource their critical activities more cost efficiently. Many of the benefits of agile talent have been widely reported.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 12, 2019

Using Laloux’s colour categorisations: Red, Amber, Orange, Green and Teal to describe the shifts in time, we looked at how these organisations are structured, what inspired their transition to the next evolution as well as what the general culture is like. You can read more about those points here. Embracing Change.

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Management Guidelines Change Management Study 60

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Using Laloux’s colour categorisations: Red, Amber, Orange, Green and Teal to describe the shifts in time, we looked at how these organisations are structured, what inspired their transition to the next evolution as well as what the general culture is like. You can read more about those points here. Embracing Change.

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Management Guidelines Change Management Study 60

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Aligned Organizational Culture and Capabilities. Organization-wide disruption also is causing dramatic shifts in culture and capabilities. Especially without strategic clarity, employees are unsure if they should focus on speed or quality, efficiency or innovation, for example. Customer-Centricity at the Forefront.

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