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.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 23, 2022

She said that as long as teams had sufficient hours of overlap, she didn't care where the managers hired people. However, now the managers have trouble reconciling how to offer fair compensation and benefits to all employees. You might have other benefits you're trying to manage across many locations.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

For instance, in Marketing, data is being used to calculate ROI on marketing campaigns, or come up with new pricing strategies based on A/B testing of campaigns which helps marketing and managers bring in more revenue, and stay ahead of the competition. However, it's crucial to have a consistent and efficient method for tracking progress.

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Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

If your company uses other project management tools like Jira, MS Project, or Oracle Primavera, the demo environment will be adjusted accordingly. Assess the software’s ability to meet your organization’s needs, improve resource management processes, and achieve desired outcomes. User training and adoption.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

See Decide When You Need To Meet, Workshop, Or Write To Save Energy And Time for more information.) There's a chapter in Manage It! Concurrent projects often elevate resource efficiency thinking, not flow efficiency thinking. Resource efficiency thinking says, “We must keep everyone busy all the time.”

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

This is one of the reasons Mark and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Your team might not need an agile approach. In the early 2000s and into the teens, I led many workshops for distributed teams. At that time, we still saw managers try to save money with licenses. Measure the cycle time.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. HR leaders are often asked: Where should work be managed in the organization?

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 7, 2018

I’m at the Agile 2018 conference this week. Yesterday, I was scheduled to deliver my Agile and Lean Roadmapping talk at 10:45 am. The more you use flow efficiency to collaborate as a team, the more you can create project advances. We don’t change how people deliver their talks/workshops.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 25, 2018

One of the big problems with new-to-agile teams is their inability to finish work inside a sprint. I’ve seen this when team members multitask across too many stories (too many stories started at one time), and when managers ask team members to work on multiple projects. ” That’s great for resource efficiency.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 10, 2018

My personal objectives look like MBOs, Management By Objectives. Some of my goals are corporate objectives: release that book, build that workshop in service of a greater goal. MBOs (Management by Objective) don’t have to be personal. When I created MBOs with my manager, my projects changed.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

The online workshop videos are complete. However, if people collaborate with pairing, swarming, or mobbing, they work in flow efficiency. ” Once the team realizes they can manage their WIP, they can start to use continuous flow (even if they “need” to plan in iterations). Unless you're a manager.

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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. Too often, managers measure people as individuals. Traditional measurements focus on resource efficiency instead of flow efficiency.) A simplistic qualitative measure of organizational agility). Lead time trends).

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

held week-long workshops designed to expose workers at the China and India sites to the U.S.-developed Managing Across Cultures. In China, however, workers equated speed with efficiency. They accepted the 90-day deadline, planned tighter schedules, reduced functionality, and exhorted themselves to work more efficiently.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2021

Do you or your managers want people to be happy at work? For example, if your manager has not maintained their one-on-ones with you? You might feel stress, a lack of social relationships, worry that your job satisfaction doesn't match what your manager thinks. Did I manage to smile at some point today? My delivery.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. How talent management is changing. Insight Center.

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