Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2018

One of my clients has many reasons for wanting an agile transformation. They need agile approaches so they can get feedback from customers as they develop the new products. They need to create a mix of new products and services, which means they need to use an agile approach for their projects and their project portfolio.

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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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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. During that workshop, the participants all had the same question, “How do we engage our stakeholders? For example, a product leader needs to be available to the team during each day to answer questions and accept stories.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 14, 2024

Use Timeboxes to Make Visible Progress I have a variety of larger work: Books, fiction, and some blog posts (the ones that turn into series) New workshops Presentations Client work, which can vary from proposal to implementation and back again. Creating the user journey for the books, workshops, and presentations. (I That's excitement.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

” is one of the questions I see when I work with people going through an agile transformation. I like to see the questions reflect the why for your organization’s agile transformation. A simplistic qualitative measure of organizational agility). “What should I measure???” What do we want less of?

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For example, I'm doing a webinar on November 30 where the value is primarily promotion for my new book. See Project Lifecycle Workshop: How to Manage Project Risks to Release Successful Products.) So the people in the learning/process improvement/agile center of excellence ask me for a free talk. But a company is not a meetup.

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Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Our process includes a series of one-on-one meetings and workshops with the new leader and the leadership team to identify current realities both internal and external to the organization, barriers to alignment, and opportunities. Let’s take the example of a new leader at a global manufacturing company. Our process drives results.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 31, 2022

I finished all the video editing for the writing workshop. Because there's more work to finishing the workshop, I'm sure I will not finish the workshop today. Those purchase orders are much larger sums of money than an online workshop or revenue from a book. The marketing for that workshop is also separate.

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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. A growing percentage of this investment supports peer learning.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

You want to present a talk, workshop, experience report at a conference. (Or, I got the idea for this series from Chris Murman's talk at Agile 2019 and from all my shepherding for the Agile 20xx and XPxx conferences. (If For example, I only offer talks for people using agile approaches or trying to. Not for work.

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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?” 30-minute timeboxes to do a draft of a workshop. See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.). And you don't have to use an agile approach to use an iteration. Understand Effective Iterations.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2021

For example, if your manager has not maintained their one-on-ones with you? I like agile approaches because I can separate lots of deliverables into small, coherent pieces. For example, I deliver my blog posts. Same with workshops or consulting. In fact, agile approaches make this kind of culture possible.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

For example, this piece is for people who want to write better and faster, but aren't yet sure about my writing workshop. Join the next writing workshop and learn how. (I often discover this when I can't decide which problem to identify in this piece.). I hope this content will nudge them over that decision line.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

I have some example bios below for people with a couple of years of experience. As a consultant, she’s led hundreds of workshops, delivered talks and keynotes around the world, and dipped her toes into Pecha Kuchas. As for certifications, as I write this in 2019, the agile community has too many framework battles. Never do that.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Sometimes, with a “by” For example, “The code was tested by the users.” See that example?) Here's an example: Then, the code arrives as if it was thrown over the wall. I'm offering my nonfiction Writing Workshop: Free Your Inner Writer again in Q4. Next up is the existential verb problem.

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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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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

DECEMBER 6, 2023

See Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility and Unearthing Your Project's Delays.) Create Overarching Goals for an example of this.) Or hire me to bring the Modern Management Workshops to your organization. If you're part of a team, read Create Your Successful Agile Project or the Project Lifecycles book.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 12, 2019

Especially when we use agile approaches, we want to be close to our customer. Here are some ideas: Your customer is “down the hall” If your customers are part of your organization, you might have more opportunities to engage them and invite them into your team, specifically to create a user story map and workshop stories.

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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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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 4, 2021

More often, you need a story, example, data, a picture—something that helps the reader understand your intent. For example, I can always choose a great topic. And if you want to practice with me, see my workshop, Free Your Inner Writer. As I write this, the Q4 workshop starts in a week. Apply that to your writing.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

See Decide When You Need To Meet, Workshop, Or Write To Save Energy And Time for more information.) Use subheadings, paragraphs, and examples, so people can consume and then use your information. We have possible solutions, but we can't choose a solution without understanding the purpose of the meeting.

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 6, 2021

Senior leaders from across the organization join the workshops as guest speakers to share their teachable point of view and engage in Q&A. The program is led by the leader, while Brimstone supports the Vice President by coaching, facilitating workshops, developing agendas, and other activities as needed.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

For example, let's say your organization's goal is to increase revenue. By adopting a more agile, data-centric approach to decision-making, your organization can shift its priorities towards flexible methodologies that can improve its resiliency.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

We asked them for examples of creativity in marketing that go beyond ad campaigns and deliver tangible value to the business. For example, Intuit’s marketing team spends time with self-employed people in their homes and offices to immerse themselves in the customer’s world.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2016

The music and video industries, for example, weren’t redefined by converting analog to digital formats. My workshops are designed with an exponential mindset to generate new ways of thinking about marketing, culture and strategy. Grow: Agility and Control. Digital business models are a bit of a misnomer.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

One such example is Connected Home, a unit set up by British utility company Centrica to build “smart home” appliances. Help Employees Embrace Agility. Agility is key to success when undertaking digital transformations. One of us works for and the other advises General Assembly.)

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

For example, they may open their own talent sourcing channel to employ contractors, by writing a unique statement of work (SOW) to engage workers with known performance or reputation. The workshops encouraged and equipped the operating managers and HR teams to take a fresh look at their workforce goals and options.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2016

To avoid this roadblock, successful companies use a more agile strategy that relies on local solutions to capture value quickly, while gradually building the long-term IT and automation architecture. Instead of large crews disassembling the packs at centralized workshops, small teams would replace the batteries in the field as needed.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Here are some examples: Cutest kitten! ” That's a great sentence for the presentation or the workshop. I've heard speakers say the title should be like “clickbait.” ” That doesn't fit for me. Clickbait often uses hyperbole to get people to click on a link. It's a horrible title. Consider These Prompts.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

held week-long workshops designed to expose workers at the China and India sites to the U.S.-developed It isn’t that workers in other countries, such as China and India in the example above, are doing anything wrong—they’re not the cause of the blisters. For example, in Germany and the U.S., In the U.S.,

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