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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Epicflow

MARCH 19, 2024

The Epicflow team continues implementing the most powerful functionality to provide our clients with a variety of tools to juggle projects and resources most efficiently. In software development projects or any Agile environment, it’s typical to work with cross-functional teams consisting of employees with different roles (e.g.,

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

If you took an agile workshop sometime in the past 15 years, you probably played the “ ball game.” Especially since they've probably suffered through way too many “agile” workshops with more and more games. That's an example of how insidious resource efficiency thinking is.

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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. Now, it's time for Economies of Scale and how that ties into resource efficiency thinking. See the Wikipedia article.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 9, 2021

Yet, in many businesses, there is often some overlap and confusion over what defines the roles of a front office and back office, making it difficult to prioritize an area for greater efficiency and productivity. What is the front office? The front office refers to the customer-facing section of a firm. What is the back office?

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 11, 2019

An agile approach requires a cross-functional team. That intent might be an entire product. That cross-functional team is a product team or a feature team. I tend to call them feature teams because they might move from feature set to feature set when they work as part of a program or over time as the product evolves.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Leveraging Cutting-Edge Technologies Under current conditions of economic turbulence, workforce shortage, and supply chain disruptions, manufacturing organizations should work towards increasing the efficiency of their operations, achieving business agility and resilience. Here are some of the examples.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 5, 2023

This article will consider three examples from military history that can examined to better understand competitive strategy in the business arena. As they gradually improve the quality of their product offering, the new entrant has the potential to take over the entire market.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The more component teams they have, the more complexity they create in the teams, in the product, and in delivery. No one can tell anything about project or product progress. If you think in resource efficiency , then it looks like component teams make sense. Effect of Component Teams in a Large Product.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2014

The book provides six principles that the author’s believe can make organisations more agile, competitive, and responsive by helping employees become more autonomous, cooperative and empowered. The car manufacturer tried to do this by moving its production engineers to the warranty department.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. Their products and services did not ship outside the building—their products and services enabled the organization to make money. Adam, a product leader, has changed his meetings and workshops.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Software is key to the efficiency of organizations in almost every industry. For example, if there was a power outage, the app could automatically inform a technician and send them a map of the fastest route to get to the relevant location. It is agile, stimulating, and there is plenty room for growth.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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Clarity Consultants

JUNE 30, 2023

Just take a look at the pandemic, for example. The more training you offer, the more efficient and effective employees are in a role. This is because they are better equipped to handle tasks, solve problems, and deliver high-quality work–all of which impact organizational productivity.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Specifics of Project Management for Manufacturing Companies The manufacturing environment deals with creating physical products, which in turn embraces a variety of processes that should be properly managed. This challenge is complexified by the demand for the high quality of delivered products and a lack of human resources.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I love where the product is going. ” Al feels productive and engaged. Before his team started to work from home, he'd: Waited for management signoffs before he could release to production. This is a common example of risk theater.) Created Gantt charts even though the team worked in an agile way.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 10, 2020

Your product mostly works. If your team works in flow efficiency , as in Part 1, your team collaborates and learns from each other. If your team works in flow efficiency , as in Part 1, your team collaborates and learns from each other. This is any lifecycle, not just an agile approach.). You can release.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

How do we move from a project-based organization towards a product organization? I’ve noticed these challenges in companies who want to move to a more product-oriented approach: The reward system rewards resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. Work Toward the Product Organization with Team Behaviors.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 21, 2022

global chip shortage), and the need for reducing production costs add to the above-mentioned difficulties. . In addition, to stay competitive on the market, business owners will struggle to deliver their products faster and produce more (e.g. For example, the application of the latest manufacturing technologies (e.g.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. As the organization changes (both products and tooling), people might not make those mistakes again. About a decade ago, an organization suffered three consecutive bad deployments to production.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

We reinforce a culture of resource efficiency. We reinforce a culture of flow efficiency. Flow efficiency can help create and reinforce a product culture.). Flow efficiency can help create and reinforce a product culture.). For example, managers conduct one-on-ones as individuals with another person.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. The better the team learns together, the better the product is. See the Flow Efficiency series.) Tip 3: Reduce the Team's WIP.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Work product: Collaborate to create a work product. Use subheadings, paragraphs, and examples, so people can consume and then use your information. They have outcomes, either a decision, action items, or a work product. Concurrent projects often elevate resource efficiency thinking, not flow efficiency thinking.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Instead, I spend most of my time on product issues across the organization. The next bit of time I spend working alone on the product work.” “Why do you spend all this time doing the product work yourself? “Why do you spend all this time doing the product work yourself?” All technical practices.

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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. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. 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. Learn and experience how agile works. What can I do?”

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 7, 2022

Resilience’, ‘agility’ and ‘holistic thinking’ are all features of effective business management that have gained widespread consensus approval, but the meaning behind these catchphrases often becomes blurred by the hype. The rise of cloud digital services is a textbook example of the economic phenomenon of specialisation.

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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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Comatch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Work management methods ensure a workplace runs as efficiently as possible. Aside from Scrum, it’s the most important agile approach. The bank implemented the agile approach across all departments, not just IT. The Kanban Board helps us have productive and meaningful conversations and make good decisions and manage the flow.

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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. Efficiencies are lost in the cost of overhead. An Example. Programs and staff grow.

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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. Instead of treating people as individuals (resource efficiency thinking), what if you looked at the team as a harmonic whole? Jane and Peter are developers, Tim is a tester.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2022

Are product or service choices shifting? Third, be flexible and agile to respond to customer needs. For example, you might give additional payment or delivery options to adapt to a tightened economy. You could put certain product offerings on the back burner in order to promote others. Are those buying trends changing?

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. Build Agility. While it is easy to say these pivots were a result of agility, it is important to differentiate between “brilliant improvisation” and a repeatable capability.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Technology combined with data is a matter of life and death for professional services firms where the “product” is a combination of insights and expertise. Agility Evolution Agile transformation represents an ongoing effort to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the organization.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. The better the team learns together, the better the product is. See the Flow Efficiency series.) Tip 3: Reduce the Team's WIP.

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Epicflow

MAY 4, 2023

Research and development projects involve the process of discovering new ideas, technologies, and solutions to create new products (or services) or improve existing ones. Will the developed product satisfy customers and be relevant in the market? In addition, changing requirements are commonplace for research and development projects.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

Finding valuable insights: Structured and unstructured data sources can uncover patterns and relationships that reveal customer needs, expose system vulnerabilities and improve productivity and performance. Tailoring products to individual needs: Big data allows an organisation to narrowly segment customers.

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