Johanna Rothman

MAY 14, 2024

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers. For example, I'm writing a book and creating a workshop now. I strongly recommend product development teams use Cost of Delay to rank the work. Too often, all that “too much” rolls work over to the next sprint. That doesn't help anyone finish.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

I have some example bios below for people with a couple of years of experience. Here's my speaking bio, in specific lines, so you can see how I use that template: Johanna, known as the Pragmatic Manager, offers frank advice for your product development challenges. Along the way, she's learned about vanity metrics and metrics that work.

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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. Translating content into local languages or adhering to local regulations are some classic examples.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. The better the team learns together, the better the product is. See Product Orientation Requires Technical Excellence ).

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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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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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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. But tangible examples of these new ways of working are few and far between. Agility and scale rarely co-exist in the design of the organizational operating model. Harnessing complexity.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. Can you create an agile culture for your team even if you can't change how the organization works? 1,2 and so on.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency, where we focus on watching the work, not the people. If you and your team have been practicing real agility, you might say these ideas barely show any agility at all.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2022

The steps to redesign your customer experience typically lead to new ways to interact with customers, new product and service offerings, and new ways of thinking and behaving that haven’t been considered before. An effective corporate vision should serve as your true north as you redesign your customer experience.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

That’s our product, and that’s our passion. It launched a product, gathered feedback, and kept iterating as it scaled and added users. Examples such as WhatsApp demonstrate that real-world innovation, in many ways, looks like an assembly line. Another good example is what’s happened with elevators.

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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.” Defining and tracking success metrics. Core Competencies.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2020

Are you and your sales team agile enough? First, pull a cross-functional team together from sales, marketing, pricing, finance, legal, product development, and service to identify how to best stabilize, forecast, and optimize strategic accounts and the sales pipeline in the next 30 days. Is It Time to Pivot Your Sales Strategy?

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

But it’s important to remember what comes between the motivated employee and the satisfied customer: the innovative product or service that the employee creates and the company sells. With the rapid development of the Internet of Things , incorporating up-to-the-minute digital technology has become critical to its product innovation.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

But since Tom’s boss was under pressure to meet a number of website metrics, she didn’t have the flexibility to implement his ideas. It’s not often possible to ignore performance metrics or overcome policies and bureaucratic red-tape. .” At first, Tom wasn’t deterred. And it doesn’t take much.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Especially now that more teams tend to work on a variety of work—not just one product's stories—I find story points less useful. I find it difficult to compare story points across feature sets or products. Example: I use my daily steps as an output measure. Notice that points are output. Outcomes Over Outputs.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

There’s still much to learn when it comes to digitizing business processes, and in particular using automation sprints—those smart, fast, and small efforts you use to boost productivity when a change to enterprise architecture isn’t the right step. Shift 1: Automate with a product mindset.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Embrace Agile Methods for Responding to Customers. Too often, when Avaya delivered tailor-designed products and services for customers, the customer was not satisfied. The key to this transformation was an innovation approach common in the software industry: agile invention methodology. The risk had been managed well.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. We asked them for examples of creativity in marketing that go beyond ad campaigns and deliver tangible value to the business. This includes the product, the buying process, the ability to provide support, and customer relationships over time.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. Here’s an example.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

By Surya Panditi, GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. So organizations today are staying ahead of the curve by scaling agile and building agility into everything they do, and extending agile techniques and practices across teams, teams-of-teams, non-IT organizations and even across the business as a whole.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

By definition, disruptive innovation challenges a firm’s core capabilities; direct channels, for example, provide low cost and ubiquitous distribution, but cannibalize traditional salesforces and threaten partners. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Large enterprises have been responding to these developments for some time, mainly by applying the methods of startups such as lean experimentation, design thinking, and agile development. Satya Nadella of Microsoft is a great example of a refounder. Embrace Productive Failure. Use New Metrics.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

More recently, however, companies have widened their aperture, recognizing that success with AI and analytics requires not just data scientists but entire cross-functional, agile teams that include data engineers, data architects, data-visualization experts, and—perhaps most important—translators. reducing product delivery time).

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

For example, devices like home assistants and wearables provide new signals to help marketers better understand how and when people are looking for answers to questions or researching products. more likely to refresh critical marketing metrics and dashboards at least weekly. more likely to prioritize integrating technology.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As an example, just look at legacy consulting. 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.

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