Johanna Rothman
APRIL 28, 2023
See Create Successful Schedules: Three Tips to Rolling Wave Planning and the series that starts with Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 1, Think in Feature Sets. And, she asked all the teams who worked together to use these principles: Work in flow efficiency , collaborating as much as possible.
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
AUGUST 12, 2021
Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. As the teams used agile approaches, they requested more and more frequent deployments. What about guidelines? A lot of the friction we see is anti-agility. Now, the teams have a reasonable constraint.
Johanna Rothman
AUGUST 18, 2020
My agile transformation clients struggle with this big question: How do we effectively reward managers? The more the organization wants or needs an agile transformation, the less the current reward structure works. Cindy wants this agile transformation to succeed. Agile Transformation Requires Management Collaboration.
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. If the team hands off work, they're working in resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. for ways to use lifecycles other than waterfall or agile. No, agile projects can release as often as they can get to done.
Johanna Rothman
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Instead of treating people as individuals (resource efficiency thinking), what if you looked at the team as a harmonic whole? You might even have a guideline that any code over two days old gets a code review, because the person working on that code might not realize they're confused. Some Choices for Inside the Team Dependencies.
Johanna Rothman
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Create a yearly budget as a guideline for our specific goals, but manage that budget every week and month to manage our risks. Commit to a mortgage after saving enough for a down payment plus a little more, and a somewhat-predictable salary to support that mortgage.
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