Johanna Rothman
JANUARY 10, 2024
I see many teams and team members who say, “Agile stinks. ” When I ask people what's happening, they say: We're doing an agile death march because someone else already told us what we have to do and the date it's due. And don't get me started on how coaches tend to do life coaching instead of support for agility.)
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. How can you see your system and your culture?
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Johanna Rothman
MARCH 9, 2021
I said that when we focus on individual achievements and deliverables, we ignore the agile system of work. Worse, when we reward individual achievements we prevent an agile culture. That's because agile teams learn together as they create the product. Agile Behaviors for Learning and Working Together.
Johanna Rothman
JULY 23, 2020
You can do this even if each of you is an expert on various areas or different products when you use flow efficiency. See Who's Playing Agile Schedule Games? ). The team decided to attack the build and deploy systems and see what they could automate. They spent another five hours of mobbing on those systems.
Johanna Rothman
JUNE 3, 2019
At the Influential Agile Leader workshop earlier this year, I led a session about scaling and how you might think about it. Notice that management defined this one solution to the problem as opposed to considering the entire system. I asked if any of the teams succeeded at using an agile approach at the team level.
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.
Business Consulting Agency
APRIL 19, 2024
Increased agility and adaptability to market changes. Mid-Sized Companies and Growth Stage Businesses Mid-sized companies and growth stage businesses often face challenges related to scaling operations, expanding into new markets, or integrating new systems. Benefits for Startups Enhanced agility and responsiveness to market changes.
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