Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 2, 2020

I had a conversation with a hardware engineer whose organization got the mandate, “Go agile or bust!” ” They're attempting to manage their technical and schedule risk with two-week iterations. And, maybe my information is old, and a great hardware engineer can get a prototype working in one day.

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SkillQuo

JANUARY 6, 2018

Management consulting is oftentimes largely unattainable for companies that need their services the most. Your chances of finding procurement experts in biochemical engineering in Japan and Germany at the same time for the same project are significantly higher with a traditional management consulting firm.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 9, 2018

Ryan Ripley interviewed me on his podcast, Agile for Humans 83 about Create Your Successful Agile Project. I didn’t stint on my opinions or on my experience with agile teams. My engineering clients can’t predict sales because they can’t predict the market. We had a blast. That’s me.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 23, 2022

Before the pandemic, Jenny, the VP of Engineering, insisted that the engineering staff needed to work in the Boston area. She said that as long as teams had sufficient hours of overlap, she didn't care where the managers hired people. You might have other benefits you're trying to manage across many locations.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 4, 2023

To understand the value, let's look at the various Costs of Delay, especially for management decisions. Assess the Cost of Delay for Management Decisions In Why Minimize Management Decision Time, I showed a value stream map for portfolio decisions. And the senior engineers made roughly $200k/year. Their word, not mine.)

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LSA Global

AUGUST 10, 2022

Ongoing Performance Management We believe that performance management is all about creating the performance environment that allows people to perform at their peak in a way that makes sense for them, their boss, and the organization as a whole. Forward-thinking companies focus on ongoing performance management.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In the spirit of becoming more adaptive , organizations have rushed to implement Agile software development. But many have done so in a way that actually makes them less agile. These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? For nearly two decades, many companies have utilized the principles within the Agile Manifesto to deliver faster time-to-market than traditional, or linear development models. Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. ” There is a senior functional manager, where the function is Engineering or IT or some name like that. The middle managers—the directors—often reflect layers in the architecture. See Your Current Organization.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 12, 2023

During the month of October, I had the pleasure of learning Organizational Development (OD) and Change Leadership from The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 46 , 36–55. Putting the “Performance” Back in Performance Management.

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Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2018

Agile — the management approach that relies on small, entrepreneurial, close-to-the-customer teams — has a reputation that reflects its rapid adoption in software development. Contrary to conventional wisdom and Hollywood action movies, dictatorial management is ineffective in large-scale crises.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2018

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Maximize engineering productivity.

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Epicflow

MAY 31, 2022

In today’s changing and uncertain world, aerospace engineering companies are seeking the ways to design and develop new products faster and with less cost. In this article, we’ll explore the most significant digitalization challenges that aerospace engineering companies face and outline the ways to address them. Digital twin.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2022

Joanie, a new VP Engineering, joined the company a couple of weeks ago. Her boss, the CEO, wants to know how long it will take engineering to finish all the projects. These are delays due to management decision time.). Manage your environment or culture. Manage Your Environment. See Manage Your Project Portfolio.)

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

” It depends on how your lifecycle manages feedback loops and learning, how collaborative the team is, and how much WIP the team has. Each Lifecycle Manages Feedback Loops Differently Brooks wrote the original version of The Mythical Man-Month in 1975, based on the 1960s IBM 360 project. .” Brooks also said on p.

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 4, 2024

This proactive approach ensures that businesses remain competitive and agile in responding to changing market dynamics. Marketing consultants stay abreast of industry advancements, emerging platforms, and consumer preferences, integrating cutting-edge tools and techniques into clients’ marketing endeavors.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The most common conversation I have these days with discouraged employees below senior management levels goes like this: “This company’s bureaucracy is killing me. I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The city hired Accenture to modernize its civil service, which led Accenture to create an app to manage daily maintenance in the city by alerting relevant technicians. Agile software development is a set of principles and practices that aim to improve the effectiveness of software development. Background and education are important.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 10, 2023

From search engine optimization (SEO) to social media marketing and content strategy, consultants optimize digital marketing efforts, ensuring a strong online presence and increased lead generation.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. They keep customers happier.

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Comatch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

More than ever, organizations are using independent experts and freelance management consultants to address critical challenges. In a recent webinar, I addressed some of the typical issues that arise when working with a freelance management consultant. Here are the key insights. . Trends in an Evolving Business Landscape.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2021

If you design for resilience, you’ll be better able to navigate disruptions.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2014

The book provides six principles that the author’s believe can make organisations more agile, competitive, and responsive by helping employees become more autonomous, cooperative and empowered. By forcing the engineers to understand the problems faced the warranty department, car designs became more reliable and cheaper to fix.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

Even if you do encounter technical problems, agile approaches help manage those problems with short project feedback loops. And, I learned to develop as a team with an electrical engineer and a mechanical engineer. We still need to assess risk and manage the risks with short feedback loops.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The post image is my chasm image from Manage It! and Create Your Successful Agile Project. The closer to the left your products are, the more your managers might be open to changing their behaviors and the culture. That's a Big-C culture where management makes things harder. Management allowed that behavior.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Back when I was a manager, my senior management wanted to separate the “new” work from the “maintenance” work. The managers poo-poohed me. I lost that discussion and I managed a team called “continuing engineering,” CE. Time for Management Intervention. That was me.).

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Agilent Technologies, separating from Hewlett Packard, turned to Deloitte to help facilitate the transaction and Deloitte in turn asked Steve Pratt to act as project lead. Soon, Pratt and Joshi talked and Agilent became the first client Deloitte served using a global delivery model (GDM). Transformation Program Management.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It is about having a flexible organization model that allows leaders to redirect resources, shift management attention, and accelerate change. For example, the lack of project prioritization and ineffective allocation of engineering and product development resources resulted in late and over-budget products, which were now in high demand.

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Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

It’s also important to redefine employees’ roles and responsibilities and align them with transformation goals as well as engage integrators and technology-innovation managers in the transformation process. In turn, technology-innovation managers supervise the work on a company’s digital innovations. . Change management.

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Comatch

MARCH 22, 2022

Some companies will rise to the challenge and manage the transition by building new businesses and reinventing themselves, and others will go out of business. Then an investment manager can say, I have to choose between Company A or Company B, which one has a higher environmental risk over the next five years?

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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 21, 2021

IT teams, partnering with a cloud vendor providing industry best practices, are often able to quickly move forward with objectives largely in their control, such as modern engineering and product management. This not only helps manage the pace of implementation but ensures executive buy-in.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

You have an ambitious team member who’s asking to be promoted to manager. As a manager, you’re always on the lookout for the next generation of talent in your organization. “It requires different skills to manage than to be an individual contributor,” she says. How do you judge his skills and experience?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

For Avaya, its lackluster NPS score reflected a simple truth: Innovation was the key to survival because it is the growth engine. In particular, I’d like to focus on three things Avaya did that other companies can learn from: Treat Innovation as a Risk-Management Exercise. Avaya embraced innovation as a risk management exercise.

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BCG

JUNE 10, 2016

What is often left out of that discussion, however, is the need for a modern IT backbone to make the digital revolution possible and to support the ever-increasing need for agility, real-time information, and customization of services. Actively manage the stakeholder ecosystem. Establish a proactive, enabled governance capability.

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