Agile Development Guidelines Management 
Johanna Rothman
AUGUST 29, 2022
That's because working in flow allows and creates ease in my development. But I use several guidelines for my work: Always, always, always finish work so it's clean. The post How I Manage My Product Development: Ease with Continuous Flow (Day 1) appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.
Johanna Rothman
AUGUST 21, 2019
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.
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Johanna Rothman
JANUARY 21, 2021
When I think about agile approaches to work, I think about how fast we can change and the cost of those changes. That's why an agile approach with deliverables every day or week doesn't fit with some kinds of projects, such as events. Agile teams need to be able to experiment quickly, finishing stories relatively fast.
Johanna Rothman
APRIL 6, 2021
A manager said to me, “I'm responsible for this department of people.” ” He said, “I'm responsible for managing the people. When we ask managers to take responsibility for other people, we increase the possibility that they micromanage. But managers rarely can help with these practices.
Johanna Rothman
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
We manage the risks of long-term commitments (decisions) by gaining experience with that person in many circumstances. (I Create a yearly budget as a guideline for our specific goals, but manage that budget every week and month to manage our risks. That's how we manage all our decisions: the Important and the Urgent.
Johanna Rothman
JUNE 27, 2019
I use the guideline: If I can't write large enough on the front of the card to see, my story is too large. Note: In From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , Mark and I recommend any other approach than an agile approach if you don't have enough hours of overlap. See Manage It! I don't use larger cards.
Johanna Rothman
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Even when managers try to create cross-functional teams, the teams still have dependencies. Jane and Peter are developers, Tim is a tester. In that case, you might have at least three choices for managing these inside-the-team dependencies: Pair on all the work. Dependencies slow and make finishing the work more difficult.
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