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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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

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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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

AUGUST 12, 2021

Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. As the organization changes (both products and tooling), people might not make those mistakes again. About a decade ago, an organization suffered three consecutive bad deployments to production.

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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. Their products and services did not ship outside the building—their products and services enabled the organization to make money. Adam, a product leader, has changed his meetings and workshops.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Emotional intelligence helps you build better relationships, reduce workplace stress, create productive conflict and improve employee retention. For example, can you identify a low, moderate, and high-intensity descriptive word for happy, sad, and scared feelings? Cultivate Your Cultural Agility.

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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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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. As part of product value teams.

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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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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

How do we move from a project-based organization towards a product organization? 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. Work Toward the Product Organization with Team Behaviors. No one likes to fail.

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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 30, 2020

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. The better the team learns together, the better the product is. See Product Orientation Requires Technical Excellence ).

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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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Comatch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Aside from Scrum, it’s the most important agile approach. The bank implemented the agile approach across all departments, not just IT. The sales, marketing, and HR teams, for example, used this approach to visualize the workflow and status of ongoing projects. . Improved Productivity. 5) Kaizen / Continuous improvement.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2021

I see too much micromanagement, even in supposedly agile organizations. ” When we have insufficient trust, morale and the products deteriorate. Instead, we can extend trust and keep innovating for morale and the products. ” Or, when a manager imposes a “standard” agile approach. Probably nothing.).

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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. Product packaging was redesigned to be more user-friendly and increase adherence.

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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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Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

Finding valuable insights: Structured and unstructured data sources can uncover patterns and relationships that reveal customer needs, expose system vulnerabilities and improve productivity and performance. Tailoring products to individual needs: Big data allows an organisation to narrowly segment customers.

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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. Many of us know this intuitively: best practices are optimized for a particular place and time and don’t necessarily transfer well between cultures. Leaders from the U.S.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I love where the product is going. ” Al feels productive and engaged. Before his team started to work from home, he'd: Waited for management signoffs before he could release to production. This is a common example of risk theater.) Created Gantt charts even though the team worked in an agile way.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. The better the team learns together, the better the product is. See Product Orientation Requires Technical Excellence ).

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Technology combined with data is a matter of life and death for professional services firms where the “product” is a combination of insights and expertise. Agility Evolution Agile transformation represents an ongoing effort to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the organization.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Instead, I spend most of my time on product issues across the organization. The next bit of time I spend working alone on the product work.” “Why do you spend all this time doing the product work yourself? “Why do you spend all this time doing the product work yourself?” All technical practices.

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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. Commodity businesses don't need agility for product development.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

That’s our product, and that’s our passion. It launched a product, gathered feedback, and kept iterating as it scaled and added users. Examples such as WhatsApp demonstrate that real-world innovation, in many ways, looks like an assembly line. Another good example is what’s happened with elevators.

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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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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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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. . Culture and Change: The Basis for Transformation . Culture and Change: The Basis for Transformation .

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The three towers, which dominate the landscape of the Gangnam district, were built to consolidate many of the activities of the firm; their imposing presence is emblematic of the company’s hierarchal culture. Killing products isn’t easy. They invest significant resources in research, marketing, and distribution.

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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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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images. Core Competencies.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Reform your team’s meeting habits to boost productivity and business impact as a CEO (a post-pandemic approach). Too many meetings will slowly weaken productivity by splintering everyone's work into small chunks and reducing their time for deep work. Once fun and collaborative workplace cultures can easily become a drag of meetings.

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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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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. Transformation born in the product world typically hits the wall when it comes to critical productions and infrastructure. Download this podcast.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2022

The steps to redesign your customer experience typically lead to new ways to interact with customers, new product and service offerings, and new ways of thinking and behaving that haven’t been considered before. An effective corporate vision should serve as your true north as you redesign your customer experience.

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