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Management Rewards: Doing Work vs Creating an Environment

Johanna Rothman

My agile transformation clients struggle with this big question: How do we effectively reward managers? The more the organization wants or needs an agile transformation, the less the current reward structure works. How do you incent the managers? What makes sense for management compensation?

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Minimum Requirements Documentation: A Matter of Context

Johanna Rothman

I use the guideline: If I can't write large enough on the front of the card to see, my story is too large. Too many distributed teams operate as people in silos, handing work off to each other. See Manage It! for ways to use lifecycles other than waterfall or agile. I don't use larger cards. I break the story.

Agile 68
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The Future of Management (Part 2/3)

Tom Spencer

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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The Future of Management (Part 2/3)

Tom Spencer

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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How to Move from Strategy to Action

LSA Global

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. With a clear line of sight , each function, each team, and each individual employee understands exactly how they are to operate and where and when they will interact with others.

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How Nextdoor Addressed Racial Profiling on Its Platform

Harvard Business

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.

Agile 28
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Multiple Short Feedback Loops Support Innovation

Johanna Rothman

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. In many teams, the PO is an Overloaded Operator.). If you want innovation, you need to manage for change.