BCG

JULY 6, 2017

Article Thursday, July 06, 2017 Agile may seem risky and impractical for regulatory projects, but it offers extraordinary benefits and can give banks an edge over competitors.

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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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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. That would be resilient.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Some of my clients have struggled with their project governance as they move to agile approaches. This kind of measurement is antithetical to agile principles. We can see it in an agile approach, because the more time we spend estimating up front, the longer it takes us to deliver that first increment of value. Not planned work.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Ron Jeffries, Matt Barcomb, and several other people wrote an interesting thread about prescriptive and non-prescriptive approaches to team-based agile. If you don’t want to read the entire thread, here is a summary: People often need help with their agile approach. That’s why we have the agile values and principles.

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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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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 15, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. 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. Can “Agile” deliver on that?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 28, 2019

Agile and Lean Program Management , and in Create Your Successful Agile Project. When people outside of technology use agile approaches, they can start their work before the product is done. When you assess the milestone criteria on a regular basis, you might learn early that you will not meet the criteria by the date you want.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2018

I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. Without knowing why you want to use agile approaches throughout the organization, you can’t generate reasonable measurements.

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Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

To further scale the company and increase performance and profitability, the private equity firm identified the need to address operational inefficiencies, optimize the organizational structure, and develop a high-performing and agile leadership team. The process is becoming a new way of doing things, and people are embracing it.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2023

Over the last two decades, technology developers have utilized the agile methodology to work more effectively. As sales teams are stretched thin and face change initiatives and strategy shifts, using the sprints made popular by agile can help them focus on priorities that will drive results.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2020

A simple framework to manage chaos, get along better, and reduce stress.

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Steve Shu Consulting

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Where students are receptive, I also try to make some time for students to meet me and one another outside of the classroom (e.g., meeting for coffee, drinks, breakfast, potluck dinner). As an example, I have often told students that they will likely see Scrum/Agile project management methods when they go into the working world.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2018

Most managers I meet want to do a good job. 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. ” Too often, managers feel this tension because the agile approaches challenge the organizational culture.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 5, 2023

link] Cross-Cultural Strategy #1: Culturally Agile Leadership Leaders increasingly face cross-cultural differences working with diverse customers and employees. Cross-cultural differences require leaders with cultural agility. Successful, culturally agile leaders can see themself through another person's perspective.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 17, 2020

A meeting tool anyone can start. In From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , Mark and I discussed the two competing theories of communication. Five, you need a meeting tool anyone can start. If only one person can start the meeting tool and that person gets sick, no one can meet. A sense of humor.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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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. No one sees the big picture. However, we still had uncertainty.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2023

Organizational innovation is fueled through effective and agile creation, management, application, recombination, and deployment of knowledge assets and know-how. Leveraging a company’s proprietary knowledge is critical to its ability to compete and innovate, especially in today’s volatile environment.

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Simon Associates

OCTOBER 12, 2022

I'm very pleased to announce that I will be speaking at the Enterprise Agility World Conference 2022: Where Science Meets Organizational Change. The central theme of the conference is enterprise agility and what tools are required today to support a healthy organization.

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Strategy+Business

JANUARY 31, 2018

To meet investors' expectations for profitable growth, Aerospace & Defense companies will have to change strategy. Instead of returning capital to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends, they will have to invest aggressively in profitable growth initiatives.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In the realm of business, the term “ governance ” conjures images of stale bureaucracy, mundane meetings, and rigid roles. In the context of business, these decisions are forged through meetings involving key stakeholders where strategic, operational, and performance-related topics are discussed and debated.

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Comatch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Aside from Scrum, it’s the most important agile approach. The more people began to see the benefits of Kanban, the more invitations to meetings I received. . The bank implemented the agile approach across all departments, not just IT. 4) Get better results through effective meetings. 5) Kaizen / Continuous improvement.

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Comatch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Next time you’re meeting for a project for the first time, remember to communicate your attention through nonverbal cues. 5) Demonstrate agility As technology continues to advance at warp speed, it’s your responsibility as a consultant to keep up with the latest advancements in the field and effectively guide your clients.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 27, 2018

That means they wait for the next decision state, often a meeting. My experience is that many managers prepare for those meetings in advance. They gather the data, make their initial decision and then wait for the meeting. The meeting might not take much time. The managers spend less work- time and much more in wait-time.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The PVT doesn’t work as an agile feature team with the same kind of backlog and ceremonies. They might decide to meet on a cadence, or they might meet as exception handling. Maybe they only meet when the organization has a need for nailing down a particular scope at a necessary time.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

See what you can deliver for plans that will help them meet their pressures. If you work at a place new to agile approaches, work on streamlining the releases so you always release once a month. (I Build relationships with the people who want commitments and predictions. Understand the pressures on them.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Who will meet the person on the first day? Mark and I wrote about this extensively in From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. In addition, Mark and I offered more ideas in the hiring chapter in From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. When we start new jobs, we need to know: When and where do we work?

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

.” In my experience, when organizations want to use agile approaches or transform in some way, the managers start with the teams. Agile approaches can help teams improve, and many teams do release value faster. They adjourned the meeting to get forecasts from the teams. We had the top three projects at that first meeting.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. They keep customers happier.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

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. Use the backchannel in the meeting.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The best strategies in business meet the following four criteria: developed inclusive of followers, focus on helping others for the greater good, account for mixed future realities, and are implemented. Strategic Planning & Thinking Barrier #2: Agility Leaders need to pay attention to time and effort when being inclusive.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Here's what the team is supposed to do: Meet an aggressive or unrealistic date. I've seen several possibilities: The manager tells the team, “The VeryExpensiveConsultant told us “agile” will give us everything we want—and when we want it. I've already said that Agile is Not a Silver Bullet.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 18, 2022

That meant they need to join meetings from their laptops. The Waltham lab has a noisy background, which made remote meetings more challenging. That meant: Everyone used their desk machine to meet, not a conference room. Returned to a short check-in at the start of each meeting. They were stuck in a Catch-22.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 11, 2024

Supply Chain Management: Efficient supply chain management is crucial for e-commerce businesses to meet customer demands, reduce fulfillment costs, and ensure timely deliveries. They assess organizational structures, identify bottlenecks, recommend automation tools, and facilitate agile practices to improve efficiency and adaptability.

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