Johanna Rothman

MAY 14, 2024

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers. 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. Managing my website.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Now, your managers want people back in the office. When Mark and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams, we saw these satellite team traps: People in the office forgot about the people not in the office. While we might call all these things, “meetings,” let's assume the team will workshop.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

For instance, in Marketing, data is being used to calculate ROI on marketing campaigns, or come up with new pricing strategies based on A/B testing of campaigns which helps marketing and managers bring in more revenue, and stay ahead of the competition. Does your organization have a data management strategy but struggle to implement it?

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2020

We've all heard of big organizations where the top management said, “No need to ever be back in the office. I find the article rife with other meeting challenges.). For some reason, these managers think we can work remotely and never see each other. We don't need a ton of in-person meetings. They (re)build trust.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 29, 2022

My updated writing workshop. If I wait too long to complete some of these, such as the updated writing workshop or some of the slides, I won't be able to deliver them when I want to. Does that outcome meet the idea of a Minimums? I started it in the wrong place, so I'm reorganizing and rewriting. It's hard for me to know.

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Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

If your company uses other project management tools like Jira, MS Project, or Oracle Primavera, the demo environment will be adjusted accordingly. Assess the software’s ability to meet your organization’s needs, improve resource management processes, and achieve desired outcomes. User training and adoption.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The reply: Spend five hours a month in meetings (roughly an hour each week). 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. Write a new, unique column each month.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

This is one of the reasons Mark and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Your team might not need an agile approach. In the early 2000s and into the teens, I led many workshops for distributed teams. At that time, we still saw managers try to save money with licenses. Measure the cycle time.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 3, 2021

We discussed the Modern Management Made Easy books among other topics: A little about the origins of agile approaches. The issue of “too many meetings” and why they might need to be called something else. See Decide When You Need to Meet, Workshop, or Write to Save Energy and Time.). Not this time!

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

And, since the people on this team are already on feature teams (the POs) or on a program (the product manager), you might not have considered how these folks collaborate. And, since the POs work with their teams, they still need someone—a product manager—to elicit information from customers. Of course not.

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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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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. It's the same problem.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Here's my speaking bio, in specific lines, so you can see how I use that template: Johanna, known as the Pragmatic Manager, offers frank advice for your product development challenges. As a consultant, she’s led hundreds of workshops, delivered talks and keynotes around the world, and dipped her toes into Pecha Kuchas.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Here to help you do just that are the top team leader mistakes to avoid at all costs from a recent new manager training workshop: Limiting Input and Dissent Have you noticed how some leaders live in an echo chamber surrounded by people who have their same mindset and opinions? Remember what that felt like?

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 10, 2018

My personal objectives look like MBOs, Management By Objectives. Some of my goals are corporate objectives: release that book, build that workshop in service of a greater goal. MBOs (Management by Objective) don’t have to be personal. When I created MBOs with my manager, my projects changed.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 25, 2018

Whenever I teach agile approaches, I discuss the possible meetings a team might choose. They start adding up all the meeting time and say, “That’s a lot of meetings.” You might have these meetings: A retrospective once every two weeks. A backlog refinement meeting every two weeks.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Rapidly-changing work demands can preclude retraining the regular workforce, so organizations meet critical and fast-changing capabilities by tapping into alternative work arrangements, often blending work arrangements. Yet HR leaders and operating managers were not aware of the reality revealed by the data.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

The online workshop videos are complete. ” Once the team realizes they can manage their WIP, they can start to use continuous flow (even if they “need” to plan in iterations). I also know my cycle times to develop workshops and video them. Unless you're a manager. Have a workshop to decide.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Kassir Hussain, former director of Connected Home, told us: “In a space that can often be confusing and frustrating to consumers, our focus on regular user interviews, meetings, tests, and demos allowed us to build a product that was simple, easy to use, and addressed real consumer needs.” Help Employees Embrace Agility.

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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 7, 2020

Think about how people join a remote meeting: They join at least 5 minutes early. They are stuck in their chairs for the entire meeting. (If The rest of us sit for the entire meeting.). The interval is different depending on whether I'm offering public or private workshops.). That's part of how I design the experience.

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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 Managing Across Cultures. For example, the efficiency lens in China led to an adoption of the practice that was out of line with the goals of the innovation center to be more agile and iterative. Leaders from the U.S.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

They work with someone, often called a product manager, to create roadmaps for the longer term. However, in a small organization, that someone might be a VP, not a product manager. If you were on a team and someone jumped into your planning meeting and said, “We're doing x, y, z, end of discussion,” how might you react?

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