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. Later, she used these ideas for the product roadmaps. There's plenty more about rolling wave planning on this blog.) See Pairing, Swarming, and Mobbing.)

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Guidelines Management Agile Efficiency 110

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 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

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.

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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. How available is the product owner? I don't use larger cards.

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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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Efficiency Guidelines Tools Resources 90

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. My consulting book had the same product problems as many of my clients have: The product in our head is not what our customers need or see. I'm now able to finish the consulting book.

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