Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 2, 2024

See the roadmap series starting with Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 3, Flow-Based Roadmapping to see how to integration options into your various roadmaps. In addition, the lower your WIP needs to be, so you can complete something useful before external events force you to change. (I And the smaller your stories.)

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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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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2022

A colleague unfamiliar with lifecycles or agility asked, “How can we use sprints in this approach?” See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.). Several events, such as “Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective” (quoted from the Scrum Guide).

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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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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 16, 2021

Many managers and teams talk about “average” durations for work. People want the average duration because they want to manage risk. Consider a short kaizen event to understand why the work is large. This team managed to complete 15 of their 20 items in 6 days or fewer. But “average” hides the risk.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. Build Agility. While it is easy to say these pivots were a result of agility, it is important to differentiate between “brilliant improvisation” and a repeatable capability.

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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. If you want people to work remotely for weather or health event, they need high bandwidth access in their homes. At that time, we still saw managers try to save money with licenses.

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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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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. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 15, 2020

If you don't manage your cash flow, a lack of cash will kill your business. The more we want an agile organization that might be able to bounce forward , the more we need to create an environment of thinking and trust. We create policies because some event(s) occurred in the past. Worse, the policies destroy trust.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

We know from our change management simulation data that most leaders are challenged by unpredictable situations where the future is uncertain, and the stakes are high. But a lucky few react with a degree of strategic clarity and mental agility that allows them to adapt with relative ease. Do you regularly doublecheck and overprepare?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Your degree of self-awareness , self-management, motivation, empathy and interpersonal skills make up your emotional intelligence. Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. I experienced the importance of cultural agility early in my career. Build Your Emotional Intelligence. Culture is one of the most potent forces in business.

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Halo Psych

MARCH 17, 2024

We’ll look at two perspectives – what you can do as an individual; and the things you should do if you’re a manager implementing change. The Temporal Transition Framework, by Lynn Isabella , is a really useful framework for managers. For example, booking in time for things that renew and reenergise you during the change.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. They allow a company to be more agile and to more effectively adapt to digital disruption. Can you run fast and go deep at the same time?

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1 to 1

JUNE 9, 2021

Steve Rowen, managing partner at Retail Systems Research, discussed lessons to be learned from the pandemic and what forward-thinking retailers are doing to position themselves for success. Do you think retailers will be able to maintain the agility that they demonstrated in 2020? Not agility. I think they have to.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. For example, IoT and real-time data streaming can help companies optimize their supply chains – enabling them to act in the event disaster strikes or there’s a bottleneck that could cause delays. Intelligent automation. Digitalization” shouldn’t inspire dread.

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LSA Global

JULY 11, 2023

When behavioral change in the workplace is required, change management consulting experts know the reaction of those affected by change is often one of frustration and resistance. Lasting organizational change is a process that must be respected, not an event that can be forced quickly upon people.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 6, 2021

Lack of Agility Not even the most well researched and well-designed strategies can predict all the events that could hinder strategy execution. Lack of Coordination The good news is that most managers report that they can rely on their boss and their direct reports all or most of the time.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 25, 2018

I’m working on my roadmapping talk for Agile 2018. The faster we learn, the more often we can link the decision to the actual events and decisions that might have created those events. The post Shorter Feedback Loops Help Us Learn Faster appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Harmonious Workplaces

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

While we should guard against generalizing behavior and ignoring individual differences, each generational cohort tends to represent distinctive worldviews, ideals, and conflict management styles, making the workplace the “central theater” for the manifestation of generational identity (Lyons et al, 2019). Gerpott et al. Schultz, N.

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Eupnea Management Consulting

AUGUST 27, 2021

The strong agility for workforce changes that most businesses developed during the pandemic will help them respond to similar future crisis if crisis-led learnings and practices are preserved in their organisations. Endnotes 1. 2021 Gartner Hybrid Work Employee Survey, Gartner, Aug.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

He earned his PhD in resource management, underlining his expertise. Albert is the co-founder of Epicflow, an AI-driven multi-project management system. This article explores managing uncertainty in organizations. This accounts for potential traffic delays, long security lines, or other unforeseen events.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Leaders in the M&A environment are managing an organization that hasn’t existed before. In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Change-agile leaders demonstrate five integrated behaviors that, together, create a competitive advantage for the organization.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 23, 2023

Then, your manager asks you this question: “That feature set in six months: when will you start it and when will you finish it?” ” “No,” the manager says. Show the manager your best guess, and explain the various dates by using the explanation of how forecasters deal with hurricanes.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management. For knowledge workers, time is incredibly scarce.

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Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Peer-to-peer Fundraising Email Marketing Website Management Website Design Payment Processing Sphere Know How Blog Sphere Knowledgebase Sphere Forum Case Central Sphere Connect Sphere Connect Partners Blackbaud Connect Partner Network Overview Partner Login. Nonprofit Management. Prospect & Donor Management.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2018

They talk through what to do when you’ve trained for one career and long for another, when you reenter the workforce after a long gap, and when you want to move into management. What you make of events is more important than the events themselves. Download this podcast. Don’t wait for a catalyst.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

Is it possible to balance the product innovation and feedback we need, with the commitment our management wants? Low Change: Manage the Estimation Costs and Time. If the managers want estimates, make the estimate and explain your assumptions to management. Too often, management blames the regular team for not knowing.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Conduct a retrospective with a timeline of events and how people felt at the time those events occurred. The events are on the top. Those lines are how people experienced the exact same events. This image is a timeline from a real retrospective I facilitated many years ago. The customers loved the product.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

One day in December 2014, Sergey, the Russia general manager for a multinational consumer goods company, was up early in the morning, watching the ruble’s value slide by the minute. dollars — or wait it out for another two months and hope that the ruble recovers, since that would give him a leg up on his competitors.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Analogously, the business environment is composed of firms and individuals who compete for limited customer dollars and investment capital and endure a continuously changing landscape resulting from economic, social and political events occurring in the background. Don’t aspire to be perfect – No organism is the perfect creation.

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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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Kates Kesler

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Building formal networks of global and local capability and resources with agile guidance from the center. This workshop is for managers, HR leaders, and OD professionals with a deep interest and some experience in organization design. Designing end-to-end functions as integrators of the business unit/market matrix.

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Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

So, in the event that this question has not yet been brought to the discussion agenda with your team… Imagine waking up to… realize that a popular TV show used your product for the plot line of a beautifully crafted story, whereby one of their most beloved characters dies. Well done, Crock-Pot! What if this happened to you?

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Cheryl Cran

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The more flexible and agile your mind the more quickly you can adapt to a new change or situation. You and I can’t control world events such as hurricanes or mergers. Lastly we accept the truth of the situation and we take full responsibility for what we can do and are willing to do to successfully manage the disruption or situation.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Projects were selected across channels to highlight agility, innovation, and customer centricity. Reddy’s employees be proactive with their customer requests and solve any problems in an agile way. At the internal launch event, Dr. Reddy’s employees learned about their purpose and were invited to be part of realizing it.

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