Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Opportunities for More Agility. Because we release every time we finish a feature set, we have these opportunities for agility: Re-rank the remaining feature sets. You keep the product “clean”—for example, maintaining the tests so you can release as often as you finish a feature set. Part 5 Agile Approaches.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

I discussed the origins of the agile approaches in Part 5. In this post, I'll discuss how you can create an agile approach that fits your context. Why should you create your own agile approach? You deserve an agile approach that helps you achieve the business outcomes you need. What do you need? Start with the Team.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

They've started to use agile approaches. Capitalization for Agile Work. Let me walk you through an example of a 5-person agile team. But, what happens if you don't have an agile project? How can they manage their capitalization if some projects use an agile approach and some use a waterfall approach?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

That part discusses why managers see agile coaches and Scrum Masters as staff positions, not line jobs. This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility. Assess Your Product Subject Matter Domain Expertise There are at least two kinds of domain expertise: the product itself, and agile/lean expertise.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

And even if you can find an agile coaching or Scrum Master job, the pay is so terrible, you don’t want to take it. That’s because these managers think agile coaching and Scrum Mastering is a staff job, not a line job. That’s because potential employers think these jobs are staff positions. Industry expertise.

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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.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I think of spreadsheets as an unintentional, but prime example of this. “Agile” as a way to do much more work in much less time. (NO! This image has an anonymized example of what occurred with a developer. Agile approaches work, especially if you focus on reducing cycle time. It doesn't work that way!!)

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Steve Shu Consulting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

As an example, for Door 3 students could put me in the hotspot by having me present a short piece of research and then quiz me based on concepts in Chapters 1 and 2 of the course book.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. Team-based “agile” is not enough.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 1, 2018

It’s From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver. ” That one chapter might be all you need to create a successful distributed agile team. For example, we win the prize for longest subheading and aside/sidebar headings. We just published a new version of the book. Just not now.

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Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 30, 2024

This article explores how consulting services contribute to the success of startups, small businesses, and larger enterprises, supported by facts, statistics, and real-world examples. Real-world Example: A tech startup struggling with scalability engaged a business consultant to optimize its operations.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This shift presents a unique opportunity for SMEs, whose inherent agility gives them an edge in adopting and innovating with AI. Generative AI has the potential to close content, insight, and technology gaps that large corporations typically have over their smaller counterparts.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 17, 2017

Of these, it makes sense to change the compensation and rewards approach, recruitment and hiring if the organization wants to create an agile culture. It’s possible to create a more agile approach to education and training. If we think about agile approaches as a way to: Create small, safe-to-fail experiments.

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Epicflow

MARCH 19, 2024

This time, we’ve prepared updates that will prove useful for those who work in an Agile environment, use Jira + Epicflow integration as well as those dealing with manufacturing, machine building, and other complex phased projects. back-end and front-end developers, QA engineers, etc.).

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 20, 2021

We talk a lot about empowered or self-organizing teams in the agile community. When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , we said the easiest way to create a system that worked for the team was for the team to create its own board. Agile Approaches Require Management Cultural Change.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

If you took an agile workshop sometime in the past 15 years, you probably played the “ ball game.” Especially since they've probably suffered through way too many “agile” workshops with more and more games. That's an example of how insidious resource efficiency thinking is. Why do I have to play a game?”

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 15, 2018

My most recent article on projectmanagement.com is 3 Questions to Ask Before Estimating an Agile Program. In both Create Your Successful Agile Project and Agile and Lean Program Management , I talk about the reality of estimates in most settings. Here’s an example of why you might want to ask these questions.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

For example, by increasing the age at which people are required to take minimum distributions from retirement, how might this affect other choices? For example, what impact might it have on how people think about claiming Social Security? We talked about the recently passed Secure Act 2.0 For those unfamiliar with Secure Act 2.0,

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2018

As their organizations move to agile approaches, these managers have problems: their organization (managers above them) wants to measure them by the old rules which demand control. ” Too often, managers feel this tension because the agile approaches challenge the organizational culture. .”

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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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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Cloud tools and technologies are influencing the future of data science work in two key areas: scaling resources and improving workforce agility. The author shares some examples of how organizations are doing this work.

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Steve Shu Consulting

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

For example, people can read books. As an example, I have often told students that they will likely see Scrum/Agile project management methods when they go into the working world. They can watch videos on TikTok or YouTube. They can take classes remotely or even do self-study using online platforms.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

See Schedule Game #11: The Schedule Tool is Always Right as an example.). I wrote a series about that, starting with Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics, Part 1.). They think the tool will do “everything” for them. I have nothing against tools. However, starting with a tool?

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 11, 2022

The more often we iterate strategically, the more we exhibit business agility. Here's an example. If you want business agility, deliver often. If you want more business agility, reduce all your feedback loops, including the strategy feedback loops. Assume you have an entire feature set of 20 stories.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

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. Rather than debating the advantages of agile teams, why not start demonstrating them? Perhaps my journey to agile will help you figure out how to begin your own.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

For example, distance can be a friction which impacts behavior. Other examples of friction are time and effort. Examples include altering default options, providing timely feedback, and fostering team norms conducive to change. Friction makes a behavior less likely and impacts our decisions.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. As the teams used agile approaches, they requested more and more frequent deployments. A lot of the friction we see is anti-agility. For example, do you plan to have a shutdown for the Christmas period?”

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Tom Spencer

MAY 5, 2023

This article will consider three examples from military history that can examined to better understand competitive strategy in the business arena. Although he was eventually defeated, Napoleon held his ground through efficiency and agility.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

For example, businesses like Netflix, Youtube, Amazon, and Airbnb use AI-powered recommendation systems to suggest movies, videos, products, and rental properties based on a user’s browsing history, past purchases, and revealed preferences based on past behavior. These systems can suggest relevant products that customers are likely to enjoy.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Some examples: Tasks in a user story, such as “design database schema.” I gave examples of a variety of product-based outcomes in Consider Product Options with Minimum Outcomes. Let me offer an example from my writing. I publish a wide variety of blog posts and books about agility in all forms.

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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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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Because features change in value and because some feature sets need to deliver value on a more regular basis, the real roadmap looks more like this graphic, “When the Agile Roadmap Changes.” Example 1: Two Month Rolling Wave. Example 2: One Month Rolling Wave. They were pretty successful with that program.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 18, 2023

For example, Google popularized the 20% Rule , under which it has traditionally allowed employees to spend up to 20% of their paid work time on developing personal projects. Organizations can also adopt agile governance practices that allow for iterative decision-making and faster adaptation to the changing business landscape.

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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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Brimstone Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In an environment that forces agility, such as the one we are in, actionable strategy enables the strategy itself (and the organization) to become more agile. Take the example of V12. Whereas many companies were forced to shift to agile methods, this was already the company’s mindset.

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