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. Here, I assume you want multiple releases for your product.

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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.

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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. That would be resilient.

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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. for ways to use lifecycles other than waterfall or agile.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2021

I also define the products and what the people need to deliver.” Why not be responsible to the people instead of for the people and products?” We talk a lot about self-organizing teams when we talk about agility. These teams: Understood their goals for the products and services they developed or supported.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 13, 2021

That conversation prevented a bad product decision. (Or, 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). Then halve again next week?

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Here's what happens with code review (see the image): We have a cross-functional team, Jane, Peter, and Tim, along with a product owner, Allan. Jane and Peter are developers, Tim is a tester. You'll still have test dependencies, but you'll eliminate the development dependencies. Person 1, Jane, “finishes” the story.

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