Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

” It depends on how your lifecycle manages feedback loops and learning, how collaborative the team is, and how much WIP the team has. Each Lifecycle Manages Feedback Loops Differently Brooks wrote the original version of The Mythical Man-Month in 1975, based on the 1960s IBM 360 project. .” Brooks also said on p.

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Business Consulting Agency

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Consultants assist entrepreneurs in developing comprehensive and strategic plans, outlining the vision, mission, target market, competition analysis, and financial projections. This foundational document becomes a roadmap for the entrepreneurial journey. This financial roadmap is essential for sustainable growth.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Many pro services firms still use fragmented systems or analog methods like spreadsheets to manage projects. It prevents you from generating reliable cash-flow forecasts and makes it incredibly difficult to manage resources. fusion development)? Bad data, in turn, leads to inaccurate timelines, estimates, budgets.

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Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

If your company uses other project management tools like Jira, MS Project, or Oracle Primavera, the demo environment will be adjusted accordingly. Assess the software’s ability to meet your organization’s needs, improve resource management processes, and achieve desired outcomes. Documentation of the results obtained.

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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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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

This is one of the reasons Mark and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Your team might not need an agile approach. The team’s project workspace so the team can put project documents in one specific place. At that time, we still saw managers try to save money with licenses. That wasn't true that day.

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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. The tactics are clear, well-documented, and offered up in a myriad of flavors. A Quick Introduction to Agile Management.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

In the context of project management, a roadmap can span across multiple timelines for continuous product development. A roadmap is crucial for visualizing a product’s strategy that is aligned with your business goals, while incorporating customer insights for future developments. Why do you need a product roadmap?

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

However, if you want to develop a product orientation, you’ll need to consider the future. My experience is that too often, managers of varieties (and product owners) push a team to stop thinking about the future and concentrate on the now. I also wrote about more about these ideas in Manage It! ).

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 4, 2020

Agility is guaranteed when companies use cloud computing services. Cloud services enable greater visibility and collaboration by providing one version of a document (e.g. Google docs), workflow management (e.g. Minju Kang is an Associate Product Manager (APM) at Loblaw Digital, Canada’s largest retailer.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

Is it possible to balance the product innovation and feedback we need, with the commitment our management wants? What if you can complete a feature set in a couple of weeks, and really have it be done, build and test automation, and any user documentation or internal documentation complete? I high-five you.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Here's my speaking bio, in specific lines, so you can see how I use that template: Johanna, known as the Pragmatic Manager, offers frank advice for your product development challenges. She works with individuals, teams, and leaders across the organization to resolve risks and see alternatives for their product development.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Since 2020, due to working primarily remotely , people developed a tendency to compensate for less office presence with more digital meetings. Their work trend index tracked the increasing number of documents, chats, emails, and meetings from February 2020 (pre-Covid) to February 2021. You can unsubscribe at any time. Every week.

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LSA Global

MARCH 17, 2022

Each dimension of influence is “necessary but not sufficient,” so each requires a different approach when designing and developing political skills training for the corporate world. A cornerstone of effective ethical politics is “impression management.” Promotion Making value visible in an acceptable manner matters.

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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.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Company Fit.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

That means retailers must learn to compete head-on with Amazon in two fundamental capabilities: agile innovation and expense management. Back in 2005, Amazon Prime was conceived, developed, and launched in about two months. Agile innovation teams are small. A Quick Introduction to Agile Management.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Sensors, embedded devices, and wearables are steadily becoming ubiquitous in the enterprise, generating huge amounts of data that, if not managed well, can easily become noise. Orchestration, APIs, and the citizen developer. Contextual insight.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

But recent technological developments like artificial intelligence (AI) are now helping companies overcome many of the challenges to contracting. The main challenge firms face in contracting arises from the sheer number of contracts they must keep track of; these often lack uniformity and are difficult to organize, manage, and update.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

Employee burnout is a common phenomenon, but it is one that companies tend to treat as a talent management or personal issue rather than a broader organizational challenge. For example, by adopting agile principles, leaders can motivate and energize teams, and give individual team members a way to own the results.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

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. See What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? At first, management told them they were “too slow.”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. Winning in the future will require a rigorous approach to accessing and managing independent workers. For instance, 40 percent of U.S.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Planning has long been one of the cornerstones of management. Early in the twentieth century Henri Fayol identified the job of managers as to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Jon Feingersh/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Most teams (55 teams comprised of 700+ senior executives) also responded to items focused on organization performance —comparing themselves to industry peers — and included dimensions such as Sales and Revenue Growth, New Product Development, and Market Share. We were wrong. What are the key tensions? Risk vs. Results.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 8, 2019

I started this series with the question: If we have teams for all other aspects of an agile approach, why wouldn't we want the product owner to also work as part of a team? The requirements people (often a product manager maybe with a BA) rarely collaborated either with the customer or with the team. my thinking.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Development is essential for leaders to thrive in today's turbulent marketplace. Its uses in companies range from development and performance management to decision-making purposes such as compensation, promotions, and even downsizing initiatives. Human Resource Management, 42(3), 243-256. principle. Shipper, F.,

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2017

One of the most stressful things about being self-employed is managing your cash flow. This information helps you better manage your monthly cash flow. ” Milestone payments not only help you manage your cash flow, they are “also a tool for communication,” she says. ” Hire a lawyer.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

When I developed this multitasking talk, I used this title: Stop the madness. Here are the options I originally developed for the multitasking talk: Say Yes—or Say No? Put that title into another document. Save and close that document. Add the title to your document with all the information. You love it.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 26, 2018

You need to add the word ‘no’ to your management vocabulary.” The single best tool I have found to help unlearn the yes-man ways of a startup CEO is a single-page document we call our MSPOT. The most painful portion of that document are the Omissions. “But it’s backfiring in scale-up mode.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

A recent study documented how incivility diminishes collaboration and performance in medical settings. As a mathematical model developed by Yale psychologists Adam Bear and David Rand shows , people who are typically surrounded by jerks learn intuitively to be selfish and to not deliberate over their actions.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In the spirit of becoming more adaptive , organizations have rushed to implement Agile software development. But many have done so in a way that actually makes them less agile. These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

There is no question that big data and AI will bring about important advances in the realm of management, especially as it relates to being able to make better-informed decisions. AI technologies can provide managers and employees with accurate data and predictions at their fingertips to support and enable the right decisions in a timely way.

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