Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

One of the big problems I see with a product orientation (as opposed to a project) is in preparing for ongoing work. You might not start the next project for this product after you complete this project. However, if you want to develop a product orientation, you’ll need to consider the future. We call it technical debt.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2022

A colleague unfamiliar with lifecycles or agility asked, “How can we use sprints in this approach?” Every sprint delivers working product.” So, here are the definitions you can point your leaders to, so they understand. See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.). You can use timeboxes.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 21, 2024

The product leader had changed out one story and added that new story in. ” After much loud discussion, the product leader agreed. However, once the product leader stopped changing the work, the team was back to their normal throughput of roughly 6 stories per iteration. (A However, notice that yellow story.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Your customers can't take your product more often than once or twice a year. Because the product doesn't need to leave the building, the teams don't release internally. The teams miss the feedback loops so critical for an agile approach. Their agile transformation falls apart. Rethink Your Definition of Customer.

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Agile Productivity Retail Management 58

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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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. Agility and scale rarely co-exist in the design of the organizational operating model. A new definition of ‘center-led’. Market conditions drive role definition. The global/local tension.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2017

The product managers and project portfolio managers depend on the team finishing everything the team commits to. That’s because the definitions are not consistent between teams and tools. You might want “Reports” in your product. You might want: Reports by product. Part 5: Product Value Team.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

By Ayman Sayed, President and Chief Product Officer, CA Technologies. But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? We’re all striving to deliver better products faster to meet customer needs in the marketplace and stay ahead of the competition.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

Especially if you want to use agile approaches. You don't need a lot of auditions or tests, and you're definitely not wasting a candidate's time. And they don't want to waste a lot of their time answering questions or building your product. That's because people who fit with the organization can learn fast.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 18, 2022

This team is definitely a “hybrid remote” team. Since people had trouble collaborating, they encountered Conway's Law, where the architecture of the product reflected the splintering of the team. For more on this topic of workspaces, please see From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams.).

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 14, 2020

And, when I looked at this definition of insubordination , I had to agree. However, when I read that definition, I don't see any mutual problem-solving. If you'd asked these people, they would have said they respected the people who did the work of creating products. Do I advocate insubordination? I would have disagreed.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2022

Are product or service choices shifting? Third, be flexible and agile to respond to customer needs. You could put certain product offerings on the back burner in order to promote others. Are those buying trends changing? Is purchasing activity decelerating? Ideas don’t have to be huge or earthshaking, either.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 9, 2021

Yet, in many businesses, there is often some overlap and confusion over what defines the roles of a front office and back office, making it difficult to prioritize an area for greater efficiency and productivity. What is the front office? The front office refers to the customer-facing section of a firm. What is the back office? Learn more.

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 20, 2020

Agile strategy transformations organizations and delivers results. Agile strategy gives organizations the framework and mindset necessary to accelerate momentum and drive results while simultaneously developing leaders, aligning teams, changing the way the organization works, and energizing people. And it’s never complete.

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 20, 2020

important;}”] Agile strategy transformations organizations and delivers results. Agile strategy gives organizations the framework and mindset necessary to accelerate momentum and drive results while simultaneously developing leaders, aligning teams, changing the way the organization works, and energizing people.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2022

Are product or service choices shifting? Third, be flexible and agile to respond to customer needs. You could put certain product offerings on the back burner in order to promote others. Are those buying trends changing? Is purchasing activity decelerating? Ideas don’t have to be huge or earthshaking, either.

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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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Jerry Fletcher

APRIL 17, 2021

Innovation, agility and the ability to think laterally can overcome the economy, the pandemic and the general funk in the populace at the moment. If a celebrity is enthusiastic about your product and endorses it, you could have a winner. If a fan becomes a social media star and brags on your product, you just might have a winner.

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Epicflow

MAY 4, 2023

Research and development projects involve the process of discovering new ideas, technologies, and solutions to create new products (or services) or improve existing ones. Will the developed product satisfy customers and be relevant in the market? In addition, changing requirements are commonplace for research and development projects.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 22, 2021

Worse, many of these managers also want business agility. Business agility requires change. In this post, I'll take a first pass at definitions, so we can separate the strategic from the tactical. Product strategy, to define the value the products offer to the product's users/customers. Your ideal users.).

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In a multi-project environment, ensuring productive work of team members gains even more importance: resources are shared by concurrent projects, and their fruitful work on them will be impossible without wise resource management. . Resource Management: Definition and Importance. Read further to find the answers. .

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 9, 2018

In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I wrote about the done, done-done, and done-done-done words we sometimes hear. I started with feature sets when a client used two different tools across a program, and the definition was not consistent across the tools. I’ve written about frictionless releasing. I can wait.

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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. And with less productivity comes less impact and/or innovation.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. (I I didn't like what I saw at the Agile 2019 conference.) This part is about what “Agile” or “agile” means. I understand that people want what they perceive as the value “Agile” will bring them. Why a Manifesto?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

However, they now had a production support problem that they needed to fix. Production support issues are validated feedback. The team called the product people “product owners.” These product people executed manual tests. These product people executed manual tests. Neither did the team.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 30, 2022

However, agile teams have one specific “tool” to create better predictability: right-sizing their stories. When I say that, teams roll their eyes at me—until they learn to make product minimums and split stories. You can definitely use those forecasts for team backlogs. I much prefer cycle time.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 29, 2021

Several of my clients have internal struggles about how to internally see the future of the product. The teams want to use an agile approach so they can incorporate learning. The managers might even think this is roadmap reflects an agile approach. There's nothing about this roadmap that's agile. What can you do?

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 25, 2018

Sprints, by definition, are a timebox. One of the big problems with new-to-agile teams is their inability to finish work inside a sprint. However, software, especially with an agile approach, is about flow efficiency , where people work as a team to finish one story at a time. You’re supposed to say, “Pencils down!”

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LSA Global

MARCH 17, 2022

Such bad behavior definitely exists, and many can see the political warning signs at work. The idea is to achieve harmonious and productive interactions by appealing to style-based preferences. The good news is that there is a way to successfully navigate politics at work by using strategic influence skills with integrity.

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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. Each has pros and cons. The Bottom Line.

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QEmploy

MAY 9, 2019

Brokers, clients, and consultants may all have their own definition of these factors. As said by, our anonymous freelance consultant, the broker “sees the consultant as any other product, you have to be careful that you’re not commodity work and that the only aspect is price.”. This is where agile methodologies come in.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

For the growing companies, it’s crucially important to keep track of all their products and make sure they are in demand and meet customers’ needs. A good way to increase profitability is to work on the products that will definitely bring revenue and make the right improvements that people are expecting.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

The birds coordinate themselves with remarkable agility to find food and avoid attacks. The formal definition of doctrine is important: “Fundamental principles by which the military forces guide their actions in support of objectives. This means different things for product development, marketing, and customer service.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. Definitions for what constitutes EvD, and methodologies to calculate its value, remain in their infancy.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

These firms have generally seen an increase in productivity and efficiency in their contracting. And instead of having a large team of associates conduct due diligence before a deal, companies will have a smaller, more agile team review the documents that the software flags and then offer advice. Indeed, Professor Gillian K.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. Under new ownership (Volvo was sold to China’s Geely by Ford in 2010), the Swedish automaker decided to transform its product line by becoming a premium player. Gerald Lord/Getty Images. It’s still a work in progress.”

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