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.

Metrics 63

Metrics How To Efficiency Resources 63

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. Neither do Finance or HR, or other “Admin” functions. Except, in an agile approach, product management (often via product owners) is an integral part of a high-performing agile team. See Your Current Organization.

Productivity 74

Productivity Agile Culture Efficiency 74

Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Power of Unity Firms need real-time insights into the entire business – finance, project accounting, sales, everything – otherwise multiple versions of the truth will start showing up in budgets, estimates, and forecasts. Many pro services firms still use fragmented systems or analog methods like spreadsheets to manage projects.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Part 1 was about how when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. All those measures are about a manager’s span of control, a sign of resource efficiency. Product organizations optimize for throughput, for flow efficiency. See my writing on OKRs and MBOs. ).

Productivity 64

Productivity Agile Efficiency System 64

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In Part 1 , I suggested that when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. Note that Marketing, Finance, HR, are all part of this product line. Product lines use flow efficiency thinking. I am using the word serve as in servant leadership. What do you do?

Productivity 65

Productivity Agile Efficiency Management 65

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

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. Instead, here are some possibly multi-dimension measurements that might help people think in flow efficiency: Cost of Delay for features, feature sets, projects.

Productivity 60

Productivity Efficiency System Management 60

Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

In addition to the “technical side” of project management, the author shares his ideas regarding effective stakeholder management, trust-based leadership, and effective decision-making as well as gives a variety of tools and techniques that can add value to your daily project management activities.

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