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 8, 2022

Integrated System Program. The larger your product, the more likely you have components teams. I often see component teams because of the architecture of the product. In this first image, the Integrated System Program, the rest of the product uses the Platform of Common Services as components.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Your team has product-focused work. And, the team also has “fast” response-required, ad hoc work: Production support, when something breaks. Answer questions about possibilities for new development from management and others. With all these interruptions, when are you supposed to finish your product work?

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Epicflow

MARCH 19, 2024

This time, we’ve prepared updates that will prove useful for those who work in an Agile environment, use Jira + Epicflow integration as well as those dealing with manufacturing, machine building, and other complex phased projects. back-end and front-end developers, QA engineers, etc.).

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

If you read my scaling agile series , you can see that becoming an agile organization requires seeing your organization as a system with a culture. You can start with teams, move to programs and the product part of the organization. You know why you want the organization to use agile approaches. Define Culture.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 23, 2020

You can do this even if each of you is an expert on various areas or different products when you use flow efficiency. See Who's Playing Agile Schedule Games? ). Clare asked management to create more of a team approach to bonuses to reduce the individual rewards. They spent another five hours of mobbing on those systems.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

I told the story of Cliff, a manager who wanted to understand why the projects were so late. ” I said, “Managers might spend as little as a quarter and as much as a year or two. .” ” In my experience, when organizations want to use agile approaches or transform in some way, the managers start with the teams.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Whether implementing new technologies, restructuring operations, or fostering a culture of innovation, the role of change management, facilitated by adept business consulting services, is pivotal for companies of all sizes.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 3, 2019

At the Influential Agile Leader workshop earlier this year, I led a session about scaling and how you might think about it. My experience is that when people use frameworks for larger efforts, they experience these unexpected side effects: The framework actions often require more manager-type people to control the actions of others.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 14, 2020

Some of my Modern Management Made Easy technical reviewers wonder. I don't see how that form of management makes sense these days. Sometimes, my managers' bosses didn't feel the same way about my comments as my direct boss did. Their bonuses did not depend on managing the project portfolio. Do I advocate insubordination?

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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

JUNE 12, 2023

Is your organization in search of business agility? Limit the choices managers can make. Ask the product leaders to manage their WIP, also. Business agility requires more slack and resilience in the organization's system. You'll get the conditions you need for business agility.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

I started asking if you actually need an agile approach in Part 1 and noted the 4 big problems I see. Part 2 was why we need managers in an agile transformation. Part 4 was about how “Agile” is meaningless and “agile” is an adjective that needs to be applied to something.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve, a software development manager, thought John was a “10x” developer. Steve—and the team—needed to see their system. Visualize the Team's System. Managers can support their teams in many ways. One of the most important ways is to see the team's system. Everyone laughed at my birds.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

AI-powered recommendation systems are another way businesses are leveraging AI-based technology to enhance the customer experience. These systems can suggest relevant products that customers are likely to enjoy. Supply chain management is another area where AI is revolutionizing operations.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 20, 2021

We talk a lot about empowered or self-organizing teams in the agile community. However, every manager's micromanagement pervades all levels. When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , we said the easiest way to create a system that worked for the team was for the team to create its own board.

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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

MARCH 30, 2020

Are you a manager accustomed to Management by Walking Around and Listening (MBWAL) ? In my experience, if you don't offer people autonomy for their work, they will game the system. You have an opportunity to work differently as a manager. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together.

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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. Measure Managers Differently.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 31, 2022

I want to make those interruptions easier to manage. I don't have just one product for my business. And I'm not a team working on just one feature set or a product. Backlogs help the managers stay out of the team's way. That's because the manager can look at the backlog and know what the team is doing.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The more component teams they have, the more complexity they create in the teams, in the product, and in delivery. No one can tell anything about project or product progress. Component teams are a system problem. And, the managers can fix this if they collaborate on the solution. I take the management perspective.).

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 28, 2018

Many new-to-agile teams use some form of iteration-based agile approach. Back in Time You Spend in Agile Meetings (near the bottom of the post), I enumerated all the possible meetings. Again, the question is, “What do we need to do to move this work to Demo, to help move it from System Test?”

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 15, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. Part 2 was why we need managers. This part is about how people want a recipe, The Answer, for how to get better at “Agile.” ” Before we can address what an answer might be, your need to know your why for an agile approach. They're not.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

One of the big problems I see with a product orientation (as opposed to a project) is in preparing for ongoing work. You might not start the next project for this product after you complete this project. However, if you want to develop a product orientation, you’ll need to consider the future. We call it technical debt.

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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

APRIL 26, 2019

As I've written these product role posts, a number of you have asked about how to use component teams. You want a more agile approach to manage the interdependencies among the teams. Each team has the capability to build and test the entire product at all times. Do I need to explain the roles of the agile manager?).

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 23, 2020

Acme has been working towards agility for the last couple of years. That means even when the teams manage to create features, the teams have to wait to see the release of the features. I wrote about defining the project purpose in both Manage It! and in Create Your Successful Agile Project.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Jim, a relatively new manager said, “I don't have nearly enough time. I asked him to eyeball the Management Time Sheet (link is to the google sheet) and see where he spent his time. 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.”

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2021

A manager said to me, “I'm responsible for this department of people.” ” He said, “I'm responsible for managing the people. I also define the products and what the people need to deliver.” Why not be responsible to the people instead of for the people and products?” ” He nodded.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Connecting existing systems that track applicants, onboard employees, and monitor performance can help improve your team’s productivity and performance.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2018

I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. The first Possible Measurements post focuses on product throughput measurements. This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. Again, do start with your why. Status meetings?

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2018

I’ve been thinking about my clients who’ve had success moving from a project-based/resource-efficiency organization to a product-based/flow efficiency organization. They had these things in common: A senior person made it safe for the managers to create experiments. Some of the managers left.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Successful project delivery is usually a result of efficient management of both workflow and resources. In a multi-project environment, ensuring productive work of team members gains even more importance: resources are shared by concurrent projects, and their fruitful work on them will be impossible without wise resource management. .

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Governance is the system that regulates and guides behaviour, leading to the creation of a distinct organizational culture which can influence the way that individuals think, act, and behave. Adopt Agile Frameworks: A transformative governance structure should be adaptive so that it can respond to a rapidly evolving business landscape.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 2, 2022

A project portfolio manager contacted me via LinkedIn. The question: How can this portfolio team start to manage the project portfolio when the organization has 600 projects? A senior manager's first job is to reduce organizational WIP (Work in Progress). But Management Decision Time matters. How to start? So does WIP.

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 18, 2024

Consultants conduct comprehensive assessments of existing IT infrastructure, systems, and processes. Improved efficiency, productivity, and operational effectiveness. Enhanced scalability, agility, and adaptability to market changes. Improved efficiency, productivity, and operational effectiveness.

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