Johanna Rothman

MARCH 15, 2018

Part of what makes an agile transformation difficult is the cultural change required. That’s what makes an agile transformation a journey. A client said to me, “I want the agile. The agile is good stuff: faster delivery of smaller stuff that we can get revenue for. Cultural change rarely occurs fast.

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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

JUNE 3, 2019

At the Influential Agile Leader workshop earlier this year, I led a session about scaling and how you might think about it. I asked if any of the teams succeeded at using an agile approach at the team level. I explained how in Agile and Lean Program Management.). ” Agile Scaling is the Answer to Whose Problems?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2018

I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. We are workshopping what we learned over the past day, week or two weeks (retrospective). Again, do start with your why.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 17, 2017

Of these, it makes sense to change the compensation and rewards approach, recruitment and hiring if the organization wants to create an agile culture. It’s possible to create a more agile approach to education and training. committed to more workshops. Agile HR is not about standups or boards.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Introduction to an Agile Transformation series… I’ve seen several agile transformation challenges. Since I want to address those challenges, this is a series of posts about agile transformation. The problems I’m planning to address are: Understanding why agile, why now. You might have another reason.

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Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 15, 2024

Training and Skill Development Marketing consultants not only provide strategic guidance but also offer training programs and skill development workshops for internal marketing teams. Adaptability and Agility In today’s rapidly evolving market, agility and adaptability are essential for marketing success.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2018

Are you looking to help support your team, management, or organization’s agile adoption? Do you feel as if you are part of the formal or informal team leading your agile transformation? You need what Gil Broza and I teach and facilitate at the Influential Agile Leader Workshop. How Do You Tell Your Agile Story?

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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. During that workshop, the participants all had the same question, “How do we engage our stakeholders? Adam, a product leader, has changed his meetings and workshops. What do they get out of this partnership?

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

” These people claim there is no need for either role in an effective team, especially an agile team because the team can manage its own deliverables. While some agile teams can manage their own deliverables, that's not the only role for a project or program manager. Yes, I teach these workshops for each book remotely.

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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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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 22, 2023

However, that's not Polly's corporate culture. Her culture says everyone gets to see everything. That “everybody sees everything” culture creates a problem in the last sentence. See Writing Workshop 1: Free Your Inner Writer & Sell Your Nonfiction Ideas. You are not surprised.)

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 31, 2018

If you're trying to write a proposal for a conference or have an agile story you want to tell, consider framing the story this way: Start with the problems. If you're proposing a new talk or a workshop, consider One Startling Sentence for conference proposals: First sentence: What's the problem? I'm a total sucker for them.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 23, 2022

Even if you're not part of an agile team, highly collaborative teams have trouble identifying who contributed what. This newsletter touches on topics in From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver and Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization ?.). The next public writing workshop will be in Q4.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2020

See Lessons Learned from Leading Workshops About Geographically Distributed Agile Teams for data from some of my previous workshops.). They (re)build trust. In-person meetings help people build and reinforce their interpersonal relationships. We don't need a ton of in-person meetings.

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Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

This includes educating users on how to use Epicflow effectively: conducting training sessions/workshops or providing online tutorials to familiarize users with the software’s features and functionalities. We will use the serious game workshop as an enabler for understanding the value of Epicflow Step 2. Organizational culture.

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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. When it comes to tracking your strategic goals, it's crucial to focus on the data that matters.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 3, 2021

We discussed the Modern Management Made Easy books among other topics: A little about the origins of agile approaches. See Decide When You Need to Meet, Workshop, or Write to Save Energy and Time.). The issue of “too many meetings” and why they might need to be called something else. I ranted about how people use Slack.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Gil Broza and I are thrilled to announce the updated version of our flagship workshop, the Influential Agile Leader. We’re leading the workshop in the Boston area, June 7-8, 2018. If you have these kinds of challenges: Your business can’t “stop” to recreate itself as an agile organization.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

held week-long workshops designed to expose workers at the China and India sites to the U.S.-developed Many of us know this intuitively: best practices are optimized for a particular place and time and don’t necessarily transfer well between cultures. Managing Across Cultures. Leaders from the U.S. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic.

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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. This can be accomplished through interviews with leaders or leading an interactive workshop.

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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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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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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Here to help you do just that are the top team leader mistakes to avoid at all costs from a recent new manager training workshop: Limiting Input and Dissent Have you noticed how some leaders live in an echo chamber surrounded by people who have their same mindset and opinions? Insular leaders lack humility, inclusiveness, openness, agility.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 28, 2022

When we ask participants in our new manager training workshops to list the attributes of great leaders, the most common are: self-awareness, learning agility , communication , and influence. When we assess organizational culture , we find the same thing – employees want more from their leaders. Harvard Business Review agrees.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

According to that same VetAdvisor and Syracuse report, the top reasons veterans report for departing their first jobs include lack of career development/advancement, work that lacks meaning, limited professional development opportunities, or unfamiliar work culture. Corporate leaders must become versed in military culture.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

This program gives employees across all disciplines and levels tools to educate them on the company, its culture, products and services, and how they solve its customer’s needs. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 26, 2018

Agile transformations are tough. That’s because wherever you start, the agile transformation creates culture clashes. Often, teams start with agile approaches. Teams discover the agile approach and practices that work for that team. That’s the external part of what we see in an agile transformation.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Agile culture is about the ability to change. You need to know why you want to change, but once you know that, agile cultures promote change.). We (as agile teams and organizations) deliver something to get some feedback and learning. You might work for one of these companies and they want to use an agile approach.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

” is one of the questions I see when I work with people going through an agile transformation. This measurement question can be the prompt that changes your culture and your system. I like to see the questions reflect the why for your organization’s agile transformation. “What should I measure???”

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2018

One of my clients has many reasons for wanting an agile transformation. They need agile approaches so they can get feedback from customers as they develop the new products. They need to create a mix of new products and services, which means they need to use an agile approach for their projects and their project portfolio.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2016

My workshops are designed with an exponential mindset to generate new ways of thinking about marketing, culture and strategy. Somewhere around a third of the way into a workshop, the leader invariably says something like “so when are we going to get something done? Grow: Agility and Control.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2021

When I think about changing outcomes, I think about culture change. Of the four factors, how can we create a culture that encourages happiness? We might create that culture this way: Create the “good” kind of stress. I like agile approaches because I can separate lots of deliverables into small, coherent pieces.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Forum participants will have an opportunity to learn from inspirational project management leaders as well as attend masterclasses revealing the aspects of delivering sustainable projects, Agile transformation, application of technologies, and more. is the largest Agile conference in Central Europe. PMO London 2024 June, 18-19.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 25, 2018

We taught them very simple strategies to build renewal into their lives, and they left our workshops eager to change the way they worked. More recently, we worked with the senior team of a large consumer product company which had been severely disrupted by smaller, more agile online competitors selling their services directly to consumers.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

Nurtured correctly, it can help a company achieve scale insurgency — a company with the benefits of both size and agility. At its worst, this can breed a toxic culture. We believe the founder’s mentality is a strategic asset. But many individual founders aren’t scalable.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

Twenty-four medical teams from four neonatal intensive care units in Israel were invited to a training workshop designed to improve quality of care. A recent study documented how incivility diminishes collaboration and performance in medical settings.

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