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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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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

In Part 1 , I suggested that when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. Note that Marketing, Finance, HR, are all part of this product line. I didn’t know anything about agile approaches then. I didn’t know anything about agile approaches then.

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Automotive Industry 2022: Overcoming Project Challenges

Epicflow

Its current development is primarily driven by 4 major trends: connectivity, autonomous vehicles, shared mobility, and electrification. As the automotive industry continues its development affected by recent unprecedented disruption, the number of projects its companies take on this year will be increasing.

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With Agile Approaches, No Need to “Meet” or “Enforce” Deadlines

Johanna Rothman

He thought agile approaches would work to “meet” and “enforce” deadlines. The company had deadlines because it wanted to meet market demands. In addition, each component team worked on any number of products, both development and support, for any given iteration. Why do you have deadlines? And remotely!)

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

One of Rochet’s first tasks was to create a leadership development program that equipped executives with the knowledge, mindset, and ways of working the company would need to grow in the digital age. “Personal experience makes me a more effective marketer.” Help Employees Embrace Agility.

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How to Measure and Prevent Defect Escapes in Any Project

Johanna Rothman

might demo the feature. That defect escaped all your checklists, approvals, and demos. That's because they knew the customers would find problems the development teams had not found. But the development teams? That's because the development teams worked by phase, not by feature. And they did.

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How to Steer the Conversation When Someone Asks for a Specific Backlog Item Prediction, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

” That's a backlog/marketing/sales problem. Now, we get to the meat, where the manager needs to know to feel good about the development. I needed to demo more often. This is the same problem as in Want to Be More Effective (and Agile)? ” That's a project portfolio funding problem. “I just want to know.

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