Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

Several people on social media have denigrated the terms “project manager” and “program manager.” ” These people claim there is no need for either role in an effective team, especially an agile team because the team can manage its own deliverables. Facilitating the team's collaboration.

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Epicflow

MAY 4, 2023

Nevertheless, this doesn’t mean that these projects cannot be successfully managed. The specificity of R&D project management Before we proceed to the recommendations on how to manage R&D projects effectively, let’s first examine their specificity and how they differ from other projects.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For years, managers have been trying to find ways to make software product development faster and easier. “Agile” as a way to do much more work in much less time. (NO! AI to take the place of humans in product development. As an industry, we've tried tons of things. It doesn't work that way!!)

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2020

In Costs of an Agile Approach for Hardware Products , I suggested that an iteration-based approach for hardware was too expensive. I focused on the actual development costs. Agile software teams are cross-functional and interdependent. Many agile software teams have somewhere between four and seven people.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

I discussed the origins of the agile approaches in Part 5. In this post, I'll discuss how you can create an agile approach that fits your context. Why should you create your own agile approach? You deserve an agile approach that helps you achieve the business outcomes you need. What do you need? Start with the Team.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2022

If I stretch that analogy a little, managers need to see where we are predictable for the next bit of time, and the options we see for the future. Too often, I see very predictable roadmaps for managers. Most teams use agile approaches because they want some feedback, internal and external, to guide the future product development.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Some of my clients have struggled with their project governance as they move to agile approaches. This kind of measurement is antithetical to agile principles. We can see it in an agile approach, because the more time we spend estimating up front, the longer it takes us to deliver that first increment of value. .”

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

For instance, in Marketing, data is being used to calculate ROI on marketing campaigns, or come up with new pricing strategies based on A/B testing of campaigns which helps marketing and managers bring in more revenue, and stay ahead of the competition. Does your organization have a data management strategy but struggle to implement it?

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Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

This guide aims to overcome the uncertainty of the Epicflow implementation process and to help our clients deploy the software smoothly and achieve positive results as quickly as possible. If your company uses other project management tools like Jira, MS Project, or Oracle Primavera, the demo environment will be adjusted accordingly.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

That allows me the most flexibility in my product development. Worse, it's actually easier to experiment with software than it is with information products. Worse, it's actually easier to experiment with software than it is with information products. Your product development is totally different from mine in that respect.

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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.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2020

” The tester said, “If the developers didn't put so many problems in, we'd be done by now.” ” The developer said, “If you didn't pressure me so much, I could have done a better job.” That's because product development is a system of work. Years ago, I wrote The Influential Test Manager.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 9, 2022

However, not all of them understand the idea of an overloaded operator in software development terms. I use “agile” and “agile approach” in my writing. I use “agile” and “agile approach” in my writing. My title confused some of my ideal readers. Not confused.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? For nearly two decades, many companies have utilized the principles within the Agile Manifesto to deliver faster time-to-market than traditional, or linear development models. Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. Customers enjoy the benefit of new features sooner.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Are you a manager accustomed to Management by Walking Around and Listening (MBWAL) ? You have an opportunity to work differently as a manager. If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. As a manager, you can ask teams to collaborate.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 2, 2020

I had a conversation with a hardware engineer whose organization got the mandate, “Go agile or bust!” ” They're attempting to manage their technical and schedule risk with two-week iterations. And, software products require a team of people because they require people from the full stack. Maybe more tests.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 22, 2020

Even if you use an agile approach, you still can't create an impossible project. These folks had a software-only product, so their agile approach helped them finish work. The company had to manage its run rate so it didn't run out of money. The more you can free each side, the easier it is to manage the project.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Flow Efficiency In How Centralization Decisions Create Friction, Increase Cycle Time, and Cost Money, Part 1, I discussed how removing support staff for departments and managers created longer cycle times. Resource Efficiency Thinking Traps Many Managers And I said the managers were not stupid. Ignorance of the flow metrics.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Are you a manager accustomed to Management by Walking Around and Listening (MBWAL) ? You have an opportunity to work differently as a manager. If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. As a manager, you can ask teams to collaborate.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Successful project delivery is usually a result of efficient management of both workflow and resources. In a multi-project environment, ensuring productive work of team members gains even more importance: resources are shared by concurrent projects, and their fruitful work on them will be impossible without wise resource management. .

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I've been working with several managers at organizations large and small, who want to capitalize their software “earlier.” ” These managers have some strongly-held beliefs about the people: People are resources. The more a company can capitalize their software, the less actual money the software costs. ).

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Epicflow

JANUARY 21, 2022

What issues will they bring to automotive project management, and what are the ways to address them? Its current development is primarily driven by 4 major trends: connectivity, autonomous vehicles, shared mobility, and electrification. The need to shorten the time for product development. Challenges in Automotive Projects.

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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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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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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. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2021

When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams, we discussed the fact that we no longer needed physical face-to-face interactions. High-fidelity virtual interactions didn't exist when the guys got together at Snowbird to write the Agile Manifesto for Software Development.). What do you think?

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The most common conversation I have these days with discouraged employees below senior management levels goes like this: “This company’s bureaucracy is killing me. I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

For years, we've used several metaphors to describe software product development: People-based metaphors, such as: Man-weeks for all the humans working on a project or a product. The first time a manager asked me how many man-weeks my work would take, I said, “Zero. See Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

In Today’s Digital Economy, Agile Practices Can’t Be Limited to Just the IT and Development Realms. By Surya Panditi, SVP and GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. Agile practices have a vital part to play in the rapid delivery and continuous maintenance of software-driven products and services.

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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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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2022

A colleague unfamiliar with lifecycles or agility asked, “How can we use sprints in this approach?” See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.). And you don't have to use an agile approach to use an iteration. ” (I wrote this in Manage It! ) Software product development is learning.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 28, 2019

See the various kinds of products in Tactical Ideas for Agile Budgeting, Part 1 or in Manage Your Project Portfolio.). I wrote about that in Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 1, Think in Feature Sets and in Create Your Successful Agile Project. And, you might need different data than you have.

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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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PM Alliance

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Most have supported quite a bit of advancement over the years, with developers rolling out new features that were never intended in the original design. It’s possible you’ll incur expensive software customization fees to accommodate previously unknown workflows and integrations. They’ve done an admirable job of keeping up.

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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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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Full disclosure: I met Andy back in 1999 at the Software Development conference. I'm thrilled to say he did that with the Modern Management Made Easy books, too. As part of our discussion about the Modern Management Made Easy books, we spoke about: Congruence. Why management requires practice and experiments.

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