Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Let's imagine a 6-person team: 3 developers, 2 testers, one product owner. Mondays and Wednesdays, the product owner, one developer, and one tester are 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.

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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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Johanna Rothman

MAY 14, 2024

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. Creating the user journey for the books, workshops, and presentations. (I That's excitement.

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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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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 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.).

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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. Not for work.

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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. She works with individuals, teams, and leaders across the organization to resolve risks and see alternatives for their product development.

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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? Insular leaders lack humility, inclusiveness, openness, agility.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 10, 2018

Some of my goals are corporate objectives: release that book, build that workshop in service of a greater goal. OKRs provide us a way to create feedback loops on corporate objectives and how well we meet those objectives. If we don’t meet our OKRs, we learn from these feedback loops. We can decide what to do the next time.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

The online workshop videos are complete. I also know my cycle times to develop workshops and video them. All this collaboration and learning together means the team shares its product development. Have a workshop to decide. Don't call it a meeting. You're workshopping.) I'm pleased with my progress.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Product owners have many challenges: They need to keep at least two thoughts about the product: what it needs to be in the near future, and what the organization wants it to be in the (distant) future. But the biggest problem I see is this: Effective product owners belong to at least two teams and maybe more. Strategic work.)

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category. Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2018

One of my clients has many reasons for wanting an agile transformation. Their old products are at the end of their lives. They need agile approaches so they can get feedback from customers as they develop the new products. Agile approaches are perfect for their corporate needs. Their agile transformation is stuck.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Forum participants will have an opportunity to learn from inspirational project management leaders as well as attend masterclasses revealing the aspects of delivering sustainable projects, Agile transformation, application of technologies, and more. is the largest Agile conference in Central Europe. PMO London 2024 June, 18-19.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

offices where employees were entrepreneurial, engaged, excited to come to work, and as a result were quickly developing new ideas for customer-facing products. held week-long workshops designed to expose workers at the China and India sites to the U.S.-developed Leaders from the U.S.

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