Agile Efficiency Guidelines Management 
Johanna Rothman
APRIL 28, 2023
Sherry, a middle manager in a relatively small organization, said, “We can’t plan for an entire quarter at a time. Our managers need to change what they want more often than that. ” “How long can the managers commit to their decisions?” Especially not if your management can't commit to an entire quarter.
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. How do you incent the managers? What makes sense for management compensation?
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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.
Johanna Rothman
AUGUST 12, 2021
Some managers wanted to prevent Bad Things from happening in the organization, so they added policies or procedures. Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see.
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. See Manage It! for ways to use lifecycles other than waterfall or agile. I don't use larger cards. I break the story.
Johanna Rothman
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
We manage the risks of long-term commitments (decisions) by gaining experience with that person in many circumstances. (I Create a yearly budget as a guideline for our specific goals, but manage that budget every week and month to manage our risks. That's how we manage all our decisions: the Important and the Urgent.
Johanna Rothman
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Even when managers try to create cross-functional teams, the teams still have dependencies. Instead of treating people as individuals (resource efficiency thinking), what if you looked at the team as a harmonic whole? Dependencies slow and make finishing the work more difficult. Some Choices for Inside the Team Dependencies.
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