Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Your managers are not yet. Your managers are stuck in what I call “how much” thinking: They want to see an estimate for “all” of it, regardless of when you might deliver the first piece of value. Managers need commitments and predictions for a number of excellent reasons. Understand the pressures on them.

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Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

After that, they are given access to a simple demo environment with a standard set of configurations, where they can test how our system works. If your company uses other project management tools like Jira, MS Project, or Oracle Primavera, the demo environment will be adjusted accordingly. Data adjustment and integration.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

” There's more in Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management.) If your product does not need much innovation, you can plan for longer and know you will meet that plan. That's why I wrote Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. )

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Many of my clients use an iteration-based agile approach. They have to manage extra work—work they had not estimated—in the form of an emergency or production support. One of the managers I coached asked this question, “Is there any way to estimate ‘right' for two weeks at a time?”

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2021

He thought agile approaches would work to “meet” and “enforce” deadlines. I asked him these questions: Do you think people don't want to meet their deadlines? The company had deadlines because it wanted to meet market demands. Let's start with how management organizes teams.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Client Trends and Factors Disrupting the Professional Services Industry For professional services firms, it’s getting harder to meet client expectations and win new business – even though demand remains strong as clients rely more on experts to help them navigate their post-COVID comeback. Interested in learning more?

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 29, 2021

The teams want to use an agile approach so they can incorporate learning. The managers want rigid roadmaps. Because the managers want to “know” the teams will deliver it all. However, the managers create a roadmap similar to the image above. The managers created a Gantt Chart as a picture, not a roadmap.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 25, 2018

Whenever I teach agile approaches, I discuss the possible meetings a team might choose. They start adding up all the meeting time and say, “That’s a lot of meetings.” You might have these meetings: A retrospective once every two weeks. A backlog refinement meeting every two weeks.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

They (the team) feel that the tasks for the sprint are too varied to manage to a single sprint goal. Then, offer some options for how to proceed, including changing meeting techniques. Facilitative Leaders Set Agendas I hate meandering, wandering meetings. That's why I wrote a chapter about meetings in Manage It!

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Kassir Hussain, former director of Connected Home, told us: “In a space that can often be confusing and frustrating to consumers, our focus on regular user interviews, meetings, tests, and demos allowed us to build a product that was simple, easy to use, and addressed real consumer needs.” Help Employees Embrace Agility.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The post image is my chasm image from Manage It! and Create Your Successful Agile Project. The closer to the left your products are, the more your managers might be open to changing their behaviors and the culture. When to give into demands to demo (“I haven't tested!”) Management allowed that behavior.

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