Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

If you read my scaling agile series , you can see that becoming an agile organization requires seeing your organization as a system with a culture. If you don’t also address the cultural problems of rewards, you won’t continue with your agile transformation. Do join us at the Influential Agile Leader.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

” These people claim there is no need for either role in an effective team, especially an agile team because the team can manage its own deliverables. While some agile teams can manage their own deliverables, that's not the only role for a project or program manager. I've been talking about servant leadership.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Strategic planning ensures that the business remains agile and responsive to changing market conditions. They help companies optimize their financial resources and ensure a healthy bottom line. Operational Efficiency Streamlining operations is key to reducing costs and improving efficiency.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

In a nutshell, AI automates repetitive tasks and makes predictions thereby increasing efficiency, streamlining the workflow, and improving decision-making. Project managers can utilize the power of AI by leveraging project/resource management tools where the technology is incorporated.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The highly customized leadership action learning program was for senior executives and focused on enhancing the skills and confidence to build cross functional commitment, role model and reinforce the desired workplace culture , and translate functional strategies into effective actions and measurable results.

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 1, 2021

A leading health services organization identified leadership development as one of its biggest challenges. The organization had grown quickly through acquisitions which placed leaders in positions larger and broader than their leadership training and experience equipped them for. Let's talk CONTACT BRIMSTONE.

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Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

This includes project plans, portfolios, programs, and the resource pool. Assess the software’s ability to meet your organization’s needs, improve resource management processes, and achieve desired outcomes. Flexibility : Epicflow is applicable to any project management methodology you stick to, including Agile.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

You don't want to reinforce resource efficiency, even though you rewarded the person for that all along. Instead, you want to reinforce flow efficiency. Discuss why you want flow efficiency and overall lower cycle time. You now realize that if you want an agile culture, you want the team to collaborate.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. Except, in an agile approach, product management (often via product owners) is an integral part of a high-performing agile team. And, great agile teams often have HR support near the team, if not part of the team. See Part 2.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

It prevents you from generating reliable cash-flow forecasts and makes it incredibly difficult to manage resources. Do you have the visibility you need to maximize resource utilization, track project status, and schedule new work? Bad data, in turn, leads to inaccurate timelines, estimates, budgets.

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LSA Global

MARCH 15, 2022

The action learning leadership development program focused on enhancing the skills and confidence of senior leaders who are required to build cross functional commitment, role model the desired culture, and translate functional strategies into effective actions. Be exceptional role models of efficient, effective, and quality decision-making.

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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.). If you want to move to an agile culture, start thinking in terms of teams. No one is literally an individual contributor.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

But a lucky few react with a degree of strategic clarity and mental agility that allows them to adapt with relative ease. According to recent McKinsey research, successful agile transformations deliver almost 30% improvements in efficiency, customer satisfaction, employee engagement, and operational performance.

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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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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. From Control to Service.

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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. Product lines use flow efficiency thinking. I am using the word serve as in servant leadership. I didn’t know anything about agile approaches then. What do you do?

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 13, 2018

I wrote a piece about this in Resource Efficiency vs. Flow Efficiency, Part 4: Defining Accountability. I’ve seen those controlling organizations: Divorce leadership from management. Those are some of the beliefs behind resource efficiency management. Flow efficiency works for knowledge work.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

This requires effective communication and collaboration across all levels of the organization, from your senior leadership team to front-line workers. However, it's crucial to have a consistent and efficient method for tracking progress. When it comes to tracking your strategic goals, it's crucial to focus on the data that matters.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2018

I’ve been thinking about my clients who’ve had success moving from a project-based/resource-efficiency organization to a product-based/flow efficiency organization. See Defining “Scaling” Agile, Part 6: Creating the Agile Organization for a fuller description of the Change Model.).

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 2, 2022

See Agile and Lean Program Management for more details.) That's why we need managers to think in flow efficiency. Some factors that lead to very large numbers of simultaneous projects: Each person on the senior leadership team has their own individual objectives. The managers work in resource efficiency.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Never refer to a human as a resource. “Resource” is a mechanistic term. I’ve written about this in the past, People Are Not Resources. In addition, see the flow efficiency series. I do this in agile organizations as a matter of course.). I can’t think of a more disrespectful approach.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

To do this, we examined how 49 enterprise leadership teams spend their time and also looked at their perceived effectiveness on critical behaviors of a senior team. That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 5, 2019

If you think in resource efficiency , then it looks like component teams make sense. This image (from Agile and Lean Program Management ) shows how a program manager might think of the architecture for an integrated system product. What made sense years ago doesn't make sense any longer. Why Component Teams Appear to Make Sense.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Similarly, many organizations are experimenting with using Agile sprints beyond the traditional areas of product development and innovation. Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity. This includes more autonomy and agility as well as inspirational leadership.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

So, we’d like to give you guidance in this flow of resources – we’ve selected 11 project management books that any successful project manager should discover. They’re under pressure to meet deadlines that sometimes overlap, juggle all these projects’ shared resources, set priorities, and ensure team members’ productivity.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

For one particular reason: it involves the most human resources, requires preparation and a follow-up, the latter drawing in even more resources. In early 2022, we conducted retrospectives for past client work (as you do in an agile team), and we've also found this pattern. It shows immediate benefits while freeing up resources.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The model has been used in other industries and has parallels to the “teams of teams” approach in the agile method of operating that has become so popular. By 10 AM, vital information has risen to the executive leadership, which includes the CEO and his direct reports plus other assigned functional executives.

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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. There might be more systems I don’t see yet. The company has a lot of managers: people managers, project managers, technical leads, architects.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Market leadership requires companies to create distinctive insight about the consumers they serve, insight drawn from data that only consumers themselves can provide. Living: Business will combine external awareness and a highly agile organization that continually reshapes and adapts to a volatile market. There’s no time to lose.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Type 3: Then there are products where input-output efficiency and reliability of the physical components are still critical but digital is becoming an integral part of the product itself (in effect, computers are being put inside products). Ford or Tesla? Rolls Royce or IBM? Caterpillar or Microsoft? Will industrial companies take the lead?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Toward that end, policymakers have introduced value-based payment models that reward quality and efficiency, in contrast with the traditional fee-for-service model, which incentivizes volume. Front-line workers are in a better position to recognize problems than executive leadership, and HROs welcome their input on how to improve.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In follow-up meetings with her direct reports, they identified high-impact work — and killed off less-important tasks to free up resources. As an example, the CEO had been discussing the importance of driving more agile decision making. And they have significantly more impact.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

” is one of the questions I see when I work with people going through an agile transformation. Traditional measurements focus on resource efficiency instead of flow efficiency.) Resource efficiency measures don’t measure what the organization delivers or what prevents the organization from delivering.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. Human Resources HR will play a leading role in driving this shift. For instance, 40 percent of U.S.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These efforts have enabled operational efficiencies, cost reductions, and greater agility, preparing companies for the next phase of digital transformation: driving growth. It’s even harder to get people to commit resources, change incentives, and make the hard decisions to become truly customer-centric.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 17, 2020

Every single person in a leadership position struggles with (agile) team transparency. That kind of control is incongruent with agile leadership. Ask people to consider pairing, swarming, and mobbing to work in flow efficiency , not resource efficiency. I think they're correct.) Correct again.)

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