Johanna Rothman

JUNE 3, 2019

At the Influential Agile Leader workshop earlier this year, I led a session about scaling and how you might think about it. I asked if any of the teams succeeded at using an agile approach at the team level. We probably could not have developed that telecommunications system with 12 people. No, none of them had.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

” 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. While some agile teams can manage their own deliverables, that's not the only role for a project or program manager. Clarify the Product and Team Objectives. I'm not alone.

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 18, 2024

Strategic Technology Planning Technology consulting services assist companies in developing strategic technology plans aligned with business goals, objectives, and growth strategies. Improved efficiency, productivity, and operational effectiveness. Enhanced scalability, agility, and adaptability to market changes.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Instead of incurring the time and cost when you bring everyone together, consider the Product Value Team. (In In past writing and presentations, I’ve called this the Product Owner Value Team. I am trying to change my term to the Product Value Team.). The product value team is a different kind of a team.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 23, 2022

And she wants the teams to create products the customers want to buy. Jenny has experienced what many of you have, too: Collaborative teams with diverse experiences can develop products customers want to buy. Over her career, Jenny has learned that it's easier to sell more product than to manage costs. Learn with Johanna.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Let's imagine a 6-person team: 3 developers, 2 testers, one product owner. Mondays and Wednesdays, the product owner, one developer, and one tester are in the office. Tuesdays and Thursdays, the other two developers and one tester are in the office. See Your Satellite Teams Traps.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 14, 2024

Use Timeboxes to Make Visible Progress I have a variety of larger work: Books, fiction, and some blog posts (the ones that turn into series) New workshops Presentations Client work, which can vary from proposal to implementation and back again. Creating the user journey for the books, workshops, and presentations. (I That's excitement.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

See Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility and Unearthing Your Project's Delays.) If you read the article above or any of the other articles you can find online, you might notice Economies of Scale focus on production—specifically manufacturing production. Product development requires teams who can learn together.

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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?” Every sprint delivers working product.” 30-minute timeboxes to do a draft of a workshop. See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.). They do have product goals. ” “Oooh.”

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

Especially if you want to use agile approaches. And they don't want to waste a lot of their time answering questions or building your product. Mark Kilby and I developed a self-study Remote Interviewing workshop you might like. Yes, ask the cultural fit questions before you ask the technical skills questions.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 3, 2021

We discussed the Modern Management Made Easy books among other topics: A little about the origins of agile approaches. See Decide When You Need to Meet, Workshop, or Write to Save Energy and Time.). And why we might want to use internal project or product space to keep track of decisions. I ranted about how people use Slack.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 12, 2019

Especially when we use agile approaches, we want to be close to our customer. Most of their customer information comes via a product owner, who learns from a product manager. Most of their customer information comes via a product owner, who learns from a product manager. That's an awful lot of the telephone game.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

You want to present a talk, workshop, experience report at a conference. (Or, I got the idea for this series from Chris Murman's talk at Agile 2019 and from all my shepherding for the Agile 20xx and XPxx conferences. (If For example, I only offer talks for people using agile approaches or trying to. Not for work.

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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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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 18, 2018

Yes, I manage my own product development and my business. We were both at a business-of-writing workshop with Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Joanna and I have similar names—which often makes for humor in the workshop. I mentioned agile approaches. That means we manage our businesses.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Top Team Leader Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs We know from our action learning leadership development programs that all leaders make mistakes. Leaders may be more comfortable this way, but they are severely limiting points of view that could lead them and their teams in new and more productive directions.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

The online workshop videos are complete. I also know my cycle times to develop workshops and video them. All this collaboration and learning together means the team shares its product development. Have a workshop to decide. You're workshopping.) When Teachable settles down, I can start to upload.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. Production performance. What is “center-led”. The “center-led” concept provides that logic.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A More Compassionate Leader Of all the traits that you want to develop as a leader, where does compassion fit in? When we ask participants in our new manager training workshops to list the attributes of great leaders, the most common are: self-awareness, learning agility , communication , and influence.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 24, 2021

In Part 1 and 2 of this series, I wrote about how an agile approach might offer strategic benefits. And because an agile approach changes your culture, I said the agile approach was part of your strategy. So let's ask this question: Can any tool—agile or otherwise—offer you a strategic advantage? (I

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 25, 2018

One of the big problems with new-to-agile teams is their inability to finish work inside a sprint. However, software, especially with an agile approach, is about flow efficiency , where people work as a team to finish one story at a time. He “finished” creating stories the team never developed. Each team is unique.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 10, 2018

Some of my goals are corporate objectives: release that book, build that workshop in service of a greater goal. When Drucker developed Management By Objectives, the idea was to flow the objective down to each person and gauge their results against that corporate objective. If you have a large organization, consider product-line OKRs.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category. Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. Customers today are not just consumers; they are also creators, developing content and ideas — and encountering challenges — right along with you. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

In addition, a product leader might approve the feature. Finally, the team, a product leader, or the customer(!) But if you are similar to one of my long-ago clients, they could plan on too many defect escapes every time they released another version of the product. But the development teams? might demo the feature.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 16, 2023

When I teach the project portfolio management workshop, we spend a good chunk of time getting all the projects down on cards and then organizing them. But because everyone felt pulled in too many directions, they needed to make some decisions now , even before a portfolio workshop. We decided to gather some data about their WIP.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2018

One of my clients has many reasons for wanting an agile transformation. Their old products are at the end of their lives. They need agile approaches so they can get feedback from customers as they develop the new products. Agile approaches are perfect for their corporate needs. They are looking for data.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

offices where employees were entrepreneurial, engaged, excited to come to work, and as a result were quickly developing new ideas for customer-facing products. held week-long workshops designed to expose workers at the China and India sites to the U.S.-developed Leaders from the U.S. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. They allow a company to be more agile and to more effectively adapt to digital disruption.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 25, 2018

We taught them very simple strategies to build renewal into their lives, and they left our workshops eager to change the way they worked. More recently, we worked with the senior team of a large consumer product company which had been severely disrupted by smaller, more agile online competitors selling their services directly to consumers.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

Twenty-four medical teams from four neonatal intensive care units in Israel were invited to a training workshop designed to improve quality of care. A study of cross-functional product teams revealed that when leaders treated members of their team well and fairly, the team members were more productive individually and as a team.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Insight Center.

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