Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

We manage the risks of long-term commitments (decisions) by gaining experience with that person in many circumstances. (I Create a yearly budget as a guideline for our specific goals, but manage that budget every week and month to manage our risks. That's how we manage all our decisions: the Important and the Urgent.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 23, 2019

I called the value stream a product so that people would think about who would use it and why. I suggested that we stop work on specific products when you have more products than teams. That would allow you to work on other projects in service of different products. What kinds of products/value streams do you have?

Productivity 60

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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.

Intellectual Property 71

Intellectual Property Consulting Guidelines Process Improvement 71

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! How available is the product owner?

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 11, 2022

Those are exactly the problems Daniel, Prateek, and I discussed in Aging Fun with Drunk Agile (Video). Just as you change your products.). 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. That time wasn't valuable to me.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 13, 2021

That conversation prevented a bad product decision. (Or, You might be an enterprise architect, a middle or senior manager, a C-level executive. Overall faster decision-making, which allows for business agility. I'm the only one who can and does keep up with product context (or whatever context you have).

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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.

Management 60

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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.

Management 60

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

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Even when managers try to create cross-functional teams, the teams still have dependencies. Here's what happens with code review (see the image): We have a cross-functional team, Jane, Peter, and Tim, along with a product owner, Allan. Dependencies slow and make finishing the work more difficult. Pairing offers continual code review.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

Is it possible to balance the product innovation and feedback we need, with the commitment our management wants? How about when it does make sense to create small or larger estimates for the product? How about when it does make sense to create small or larger estimates for the product? It all depends on your product.

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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!

Management 11

Management Handbook Case Study Case Studies 11

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. Product strategy, to define the value the products offer to the product's users/customers. This means you can create a product roadmap and a backlog.

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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.

Agile 28

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops. Everyone agrees they want innovation: Which products and services the organization offers. What features the product offers, or the problems the product solves. The product roadmap). The managers want: The teams to go “faster.” Product-Only Feedback Loop.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2018

Ostensibly, young companies are “acqui-hired” more for their best people than for any real interest in their products, services, or ongoing operations. Management knows it needs to “do something,” but no obvious acquisition candidates exist and creating an internal team or hiring external talent would take too long.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Talent How To Agile 28