Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 11, 2019

We had (and still have) too many products to keep the same teams on them for a long time. For programs, the team stayed together and moved to a different feature set/internal product until the program finished. We could move to a new product and/or a new team. My job was to smooth the way for people to deliver products.

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Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

How a private equity-backed artisanal food manufacturer stemmed losses, rebuilt the leadership team, and positioned the company for growth. Brimstone worked with the CEO, the senior leadership team, and the private equity firm to put in place the conditions for success. Two senior team members were onboarded.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Daniel Vacanti and Prateek Singh graciously invited* me to be on an episode of Drunk Agile: Episode 37 Johanna Rothman Part Deux More Bigger Aging. Ordering the work by value, even though agile approaches hope the value changes. (Re)defining That's why agile approaches emphasize “finish something and get feedback on it.”

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. As the organization changes (both products and tooling), people might not make those mistakes again. About a decade ago, an organization suffered three consecutive bad deployments to production.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

I had a great time on the Agile Coffee podcast, 75. Why I don't always subscribe to the idea of intent-based leadership. Why I don't always subscribe to the idea of intent-based leadership. How we might ascribe value to seeing customer situations vs sitting in the office working on the product. Managing with Coffee.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 23, 2020

Agile strategy can transform your organization. When Andy Frawley took on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2018, V12 faced several challenges, including business inefficiencies stemming from a recent merger and inapt product and go-to-market strategies. Agile Strategy.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 23, 2020

important;}”] Agile strategy can transform your organization. When Andy Frawley took on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2018, V12 faced several challenges, including business inefficiencies stemming from a recent merger and inapt product and go-to-market strategies.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 28, 2019

Many of my clients want to create long-term plans, based on data with short validity, even for products in a high state of change. I suspect the first question is how much change do you need in your product, not how good your information is, or how much planning you need. Where Is Your Product in Its Lifecycle?

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

Let me address a little about business agility and innovation. Business agility allows us to create a culture where we plan to change. Too many people think business agility is about the ability to do more of the same, faster. ” Or mine, “Explore and support effective ways of managing product development.”

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The Source

JANUARY 15, 2021

The events of 2020 have undoubtedly shaken things up in the world of consulting firm content production. From our unique position looking across the whole thought leadership landscape, we believe there are some key trends that will help to shape 2021. Here are our top three: A more agile mindset. A more collaborative approach.

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Clarity Consultants

AUGUST 15, 2017

The agile corporate-learning business model has been getting a lot of attention in recent times. Companies are seeing the benefits of a more agile production, design, and even leadership development programs. But an agile model isn’t for everyone. appeared first on Clarity Consultants.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

McNulty, associate director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, and Leonard Marcus, founding co-director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, wrote , “The coronavirus crisis, like every crisis, is unfolding over an arc of time with a beginning, middle, and end. Build Agility.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 3, 2022

The following 9 inspirational videos on leadership and change have been helpful for us and the leaders with whom we work. Grit, curiosity, agility, courage and so much more. In this spirited talk, he highlights three important changes we should understand for better productivity and calls for a stronger culture of “smart failure.”

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 12, 2021

You want business agility. The people and teams continue to experiment with agile behaviors. Every team's agile journey is unique. So is each manager's agile journey. If some people aren't sure, they might not be as far along in their agile journey. The teams have worked hard to change how they work. Educate them.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Effective leadership is communication. A few things about effective leadership communication are proven based on several studies over the past two decades. With these recommendations, you can focus on the critical few proven leadership communication solutions that create business results. Why Leadership Communication Matters.

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 20, 2022

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master!

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 20, 2022

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master!

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Instead, I spend most of my time on product issues across the organization. The next bit of time I spend working alone on the product work.” “Why do you spend all this time doing the product work yourself? “Why do you spend all this time doing the product work yourself?” All technical practices.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2021

I see too much micromanagement, even in supposedly agile organizations. ” When we have insufficient trust, morale and the products deteriorate. Instead, we can extend trust and keep innovating for morale and the products. ” Or, when a manager imposes a “standard” agile approach.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. You might even call them/use them as product teams. You might wonder about organizing all the work as product work. The “Typical Product Development Organization” shows the kind of organization I see most often.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

” These people claim there is no need for either role in an effective team, especially an agile team because the team can manage its own deliverables. While some agile teams can manage their own deliverables, that's not the only role for a project or program manager. Clarify the Product and Team Objectives. The outcomes).

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. Team-based “agile” is not enough.

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Business Consulting Agency

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Impact : A product or service without market demand leads to low sales, hindering revenue generation. Ineffective Leadership and Team Dynamics : Reason : Weak leadership, conflicts within the team, or a lack of alignment. Impact : Dysfunctional teams or leadership issues hinder productivity, innovation, and company culture.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 13, 2021

That conversation prevented a bad product decision. (Or, 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). But the conversation you just had?

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The leaders in the Facilitative Leadership Workshop faced the following challenges: High expectations to take, promote, and encourage a cross-functional and program focus vs. the predominant product and function focus that most of their internal customers follow and are rewarded for.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In Part 1 , I suggested that when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. In this part, I’ll discuss an option for a product-oriented organization. Consider a Product-Oriented Organization. That includes product ownership. How Many Managers Do You Need?

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Clarity Consultants

AUGUST 15, 2017

The agile corporate-learning business model has been getting a lot of attention in recent times. Companies are seeing the benefits of a more agile production, design, and even leadership development programs. But an agile model isn’t for everyone.

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Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

I’m tired of hearing about how much business and leadership is going to change in the “World 2.0.” Not to be left out of the rush to platitudes, the Darden business school at the University of Virginia enjoins us to “get back to BASICS,” their acronym for Bonding, Agility, Safety, Inclusion, Compassion, and Strategic Alignment.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The team doesn't have to be a feature- or product-based team. And I have a discussion in Create Your Successful Agile Project about backlog items.). No requires that you exercise your leadership. That leadership has always led to better outcomes. This is a part of the series of leadership tips. I hope you do, too.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Introduction to an Agile Transformation series… I’ve seen several agile transformation challenges. Since I want to address those challenges, this is a series of posts about agile transformation. The problems I’m planning to address are: Understanding why agile, why now. You might have another reason.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2020

In a conversation about product quality, the product owner said, “If the testers found the problems faster, we would be done faster.” That's because product development is a system of work. If you pressure one piece of the system and don't accommodate that pressure elsewhere, you create bad products.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2022

See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.) The reason the teams worked on so many projects was that senior leadership was not clear on the strategy. The post Little’s Law for Any Kind of Product Development: How to Learn How Long Your Work Will Take appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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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. The people doing the work want less control and more servant leadership. Managers ask architects to help a team to control the design of the product.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

To better engage your team when faced with unrealistic targets requires a blend of leadership vulnerability, trust , and practicality. To mitigate the fallout while making sure that unreasonable targets don’t negatively impact the health or productivity of you or your team: Understand the Impact on Your Team It can be easy to overreact.

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Clarity Consultants

MARCH 7, 2017

This trend toward more agile production, design, and leadership development is critical in creating the kind of responsive and flexible atmosphere that gets better results quickly. Today we're talking about how agility is particularly essential to corporate learning and development programs.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 3, 2018

This series is about how you might move to a product-based organization. Part 1 was about how when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. Part 2 was about one possibility for moving to a product-based organization. Product managers manage the product roadmaps.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

Let me address a little about business agility and innovation. Business agility allows us to create a culture where we plan to change. Too many people think business agility is about the ability to do more of the same, faster. ” Or mine, “Explore and support effective ways of managing product development.”

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