Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

See Project Lifecycle Workshop: How to Manage Project Risks to Release Successful Products.) That's because I have an overarching guideline for partnering with other people: I don't do business with jerks. So the people in the learning/process improvement/agile center of excellence ask me for a free talk.

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Intellectual Property Consulting Guidelines Process Improvement 71

Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The content is based on these books: From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Guidelines for interview duration and the interview matrix. The post New Virtual Class About Hiring appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. Hiring Geeks That Fit. The course contains: Five templates.

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Guidelines Interviews Resumes Agile 69

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 29, 2022

But I use several guidelines for my work: Always, always, always finish work so it's clean. The post How I Manage My Product Development: Ease with Continuous Flow (Day 1) appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. The sizes of my WIP are all over the map. A book is much larger than a presentation.

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Development Productivity Management Guidelines 89

Johanna Rothman

JUNE 27, 2019

I use the guideline: If I can't write large enough on the front of the card to see, my story is too large. Note: In From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , Mark and I recommend any other approach than an agile approach if you don't have enough hours of overlap. See Manage It! I don't use larger cards.

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Agile Guidelines Efficiency Productivity 68

Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 11, 2022

Those are exactly the problems Daniel, Prateek, and I discussed in Aging Fun with Drunk Agile (Video). I wrote about this in Manage Your Project Portfolio.) I have guidelines for me. My Guidelines for the Value of Old Data and Its Effect on Aging. Aging items kill the momentum from either teams or managers.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 12, 2019

In the last installment , we explored how management has gone through big evolutionary changes since its inception. When a business is falling behind in its evolutionary journey towards adopting a Teal management style, it has two main options: transformation or reinvention. Relevance of the Teal management philosophy.

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Management Guidelines Change Management Study 60

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 5, 2019

In the last installment , we explored how management has gone through big evolutionary changes since its inception. When a business is falling behind in its evolutionary journey towards adopting a Teal management style, it has two main options: transformation or reinvention. Relevance of the Teal management philosophy.

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Management Guidelines Change Management Study 60

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 do need guidelines and constraints for our work. Worse, the policies destroy trust. The less trust we have.

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Policies Cash Flow Agile Guidelines 76

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 13, 2021

You might be an enterprise architect, a middle or senior manager, a C-level executive. Overall faster decision-making, which allows for business agility. When I work with leaders, I hear reasons like this: I was the original architect or product manager or developer, so I know the most about the system (or product).

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Step-by-Step Guidelines To be set up for success, a strategy must be broken down into the specific “how” at the individual, team, and organizational levels. Agility and a Learning Mindset The 90-day operational road map provides guidelines, but there will inevitably be unforeseen roadblocks.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 23, 2019

This is where taking an agile approach to the projects can really help your project portfolio decisions. In Manage Your Project Portfolio , I suggested three ways to think about the work: Projects that keep the lights on. I have a guideline for my clients: Not more than 25% in (KTLO) Keep The Lights On.

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Productivity Agile ROI Finance 60

Ben de Haldevang

JUNE 7, 2023

It very clearly makes the point that there is no silver bullet but equally sets the record straight for the ill-informed people who maintain that “every integration or transformation is different so why plan ahead or follow any form of framework or guidelines”.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Even when managers try to create cross-functional teams, the teams still have dependencies. In that case, you might have at least three choices for managing these inside-the-team dependencies: Pair on all the work. Dependencies slow and make finishing the work more difficult. Pairing offers continual code review.

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Efficiency Guidelines Tools Resources 90

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 22, 2023

Since I also write for project, program, and portfolio managers, you might not choose to read this post. Writers often need a different approach to manage everyone's expectations. How to Write for Secondary Readers Polly, a program manager, works with her program team to solve a cross-program problem: status reporting.

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Report Culture Sales Training 88

Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

Becoming a competent and sought-after project manager is impossible without constant professional development. So, we’d like to give you guidance in this flow of resources – we’ve selected 11 project management books that any successful project manager should discover. Enjoy the reading!

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Management Handbook Case Study Case Studies 11

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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Productivity Research Agile Guidelines 58

Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2018

As I discuss in my book Analytics: The Agile Way, how Nextdoor responded illustrates not only the importance of reacting quickly in a crisis , but how useful a data-driven, agile approach can be. But by taking a data-oriented and agile approach to design, the company reported it had reduced racial profiling by 75 percent.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

That's a guideline, not a rule. The post Create a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts, Part 2: Start with Outcomes appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. Write this down: Review the people you want to participate/attend your presentation. What do they need to take away from your session?

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 22, 2021

I keep seeing managers confuse the strategic and tactical. Worse, many of these managers also want business agility. Business agility requires change. However, I'll focus on the management strategies now, for the organization and for defining the product. Strategy Occurs At Several Levels. Why that often?

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Productivity Strategy Strategy Strategy& 133

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

We then enrolled them in online courses teaching necessary job and technical skills, like computer science fundamentals, complex problem solving, group collaboration, agile methodology, effective written communication, and so on. We selected 15 people from that group who demonstrated strong work ethic, grit, and excitement for the program.

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Company Recruiting Recruitment ROI 37

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2018

Having been on both sides of several successful — and failed — acqui-hire transactions, certain critical success criteria and warning signs stand out: Don’t acquire talent to solve a problem or manage a pain point. How will the firm manage frustration borne of ambition? No wonder their new teams often feel betrayed.

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Enterprise Talent How To Agile 28

Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The managers want: The teams to go “faster.” The managers say they want innovation, which is why they want the teams to go faster. My guideline is 3 acceptance criteria, as Given-When-Then. If you want innovation, you need to manage for change. Let's examine what people want in more detail first.

Productivity 84

Productivity Agile Guidelines Management 84

Johanna Rothman

MAY 7, 2020

In my agile workshops, I ask people to work as part of a team for an hour every day. I want them to feel the difference inside the guidelines.) The post Rework Online Training Part 2: Outcomes Drive Overall Design appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. I want them to feel what it's like to build that habit.

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