Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Overall faster decision-making, which allows for business agility. When I work with leaders, I hear reasons like this: I was the original architect or product manager or developer, so I know the most about the system (or product). Instead, can you offer guidelines and constraints so other people can make decisions?

Leadership 73

Leadership Meeting Guidelines System 73

Kates Kesler

JULY 6, 2020

Reductions in staffing levels can destroy or erode organization capabilities or “muscle” that are at the heart of their competitive advantage and may have taken years to develop. Where does it make sense to duplicate work in order to drive differentiation and agility? What is the right level of integration?

Enterprise 50

Enterprise Talent Agile Exercises 50

LSA Global

MAY 11, 2023

Leading companies use research-backed leadership development simulations that combine proven psychometric tests (personality and learning) with detailed leadership insights against the specific leadership competencies required for longer term success.

Culture 36

Culture Leadership Guidelines Study 36

Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2018

As I discuss in my book Analytics: The Agile Way, how Nextdoor responded illustrates not only the importance of reacting quickly in a crisis , but how useful a data-driven, agile approach can be. ” The team responded by developing six different variants of its app and testing them. Sponsored by Google.

Agile 28

Agile Data Report Guidelines 28

Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

See Create Your Successful Agile Project for how to use cycle time to reduce the time you spend on estimation.). Note, this is Research and Delivery, not Research and Development!). If you don't like my continuum, develop your own. My guidelines: Don't plan for more work than you can do before you have to change.

Productivity 58

Productivity Research Agile Guidelines 58

Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Create a yearly budget as a guideline for our specific goals, but manage that budget every week and month to manage our risks. Managers can use the principles behind what I do: How I Manage My Product Development: Ease with Continuous Flow (Day 1). In general, use Cost of Delay to rank work, including your decisions.

Management 98

Management Productivity Guidelines Consulting 98

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

At Treehouse, an online school that helps companies hire developers and designers, we’re seeing the same problem. But without a real passion for tech, they wouldn’t successfully convert from apprentice to salaried developer. When I took a look at my workforce two years ago, I saw that I hadn’t created a diverse team.

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Company Recruiting Recruitment ROI 44

Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

Becoming a competent and sought-after project manager is impossible without constant professional development. The essays are based on Scott Berkun’s work experience as a project manager at Microsoft, which however doesn’t mean that his guidelines will be useful for software development projects only.

Management 11

Management Handbook Case Study Case Studies 11

Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

That's a guideline, not a rule. How well do the outcomes match the list of problems you developed in Part 1 ? List the outcomes. I try to have four or five outcomes. Start the outcomes with verbs. I don't happen to like, “You will learn” as a start. I know I'm going to learn something. Please, get to the point.

Conference 53

Conference Guidelines Examples How To 53

Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 11, 2020

My guideline is 3 acceptance criteria, as Given-When-Then. I still think that teams—assuming they use an incremental lifecycle or an agile approach—can control their cycle time more than they might think. What if your team can't complete a story in under a week? Or, what if a story takes several weeks? That's not a story.

Productivity 84

Productivity Agile Guidelines Management 84