Agile Meeting Productivity Time Management 
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. What and how we reward people.
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. The more I work with people on teams, with teams, and with managers, the more I am convinced starting with the teams is the “wrong” end to start. I'm always off.
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Harvard Business
APRIL 6, 2017
The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover, and the loss of the most capable talent. In our book Time, Talent and Energy , we note that when employees aren’t as productive as they could be, it’s usually the organization, not its employees, that is to blame.
Johanna Rothman
APRIL 14, 2021
One of my clients wants to use shared services “teams” as they start their agile transformation. Their developers work on a product for months and years at a time. ” Shared service-thinking denies the reality of effective product development: A cross-functional team learns together as they develop the product.
Harvard Business
MAY 1, 2017
Our approach is rooted in extreme programming and agile processes , and the foundation of our work environment is a pair programming culture. It signals that breakfast is over and the office-wide meeting is about to start. I’m not quite as motivated (in terms of my fitness) or organized (in terms of my time management).
Johanna Rothman
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
We hear about agile teams, in the form of product or feature teams. However, too many managers still work independently. That’s a problem when the teams have organizational problems a single manager can’t solve. Instead of managers working alone, what if we had teams of managers? That's what I need!”
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 12, 2018
Since then, my productivity has at least doubled. I converted from my religiously observed to-do list (daily work plan) to this calendar system, also known as timeboxing (a term borrowed from agile project management). In a study we conducted of 100 productivity hacks , timeboxing was ranked as the most useful.
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