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. I had to learn to collaborate.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? We’re all striving to deliver better products faster to meet customer needs in the marketplace and stay ahead of the competition. Read more from CA Technologies: The Key to Agile Success? It’s All About the Data.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2018

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

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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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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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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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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 10, 2020

If you're like many of the teams I meet, you've sort of got a handle on things. They don't need standups or status meetings. This is any lifecycle, not just an agile approach.). I used the image from Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation as a way to think about the feedback loop realities in a serial approach.).

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

Whether it's through spreadsheets, software, or a whiteboard, it's important that everyone on the team is using the same method and frequency for tracking. With software, it's easier to see where you stand in meeting or exceeding goals and where adjustments need to be made to maximize what's working and address areas of weakness.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In a few words, the industry is going to evolve in three major areas: implementing recent technological advancements (Industry 4.0), finding ways to address post-pandemic challenges, and meeting sustainability requirements. How Digitization Makes the Supply Chain More Efficient, Agile, and Customer-Focused. AdvancedTech. Industry 4.0.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Professional services is an expansive space spanning several industries – consulting firms, software publishers, IT service providers, even manufacturers and distributors that offer post-sale services — each with its own set of challenges, regulations, and opportunities.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 4, 2020

By using cloud services, the companies do not have to invest in new software and hardware when demand increases. Agility is guaranteed when companies use cloud computing services. Companies can meet user expectations by using cloud services. Instead, companies can pay for what they use. Increased collaboration . Innovation.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

35 (in the anniversary edition): “The team just defined meets the desiderata in several ways. Yes, the premise of my Agile and Lean Program Management book.) I have never seen those three conditions in any non-agile project, but that could be my experience and not universal. The quote I found most useful was on p.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Agility Evolution Agile transformation represents an ongoing effort to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the organization. Leading organizations have the agility and flexibility needed to respond to disruptions, evolve with market conditions, and act on emerging trends without clunky processes holding them back.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Meeting the increasing demand under conditions of ongoing resource shortage is a challenge for manufacturing project management. Read the next section to find out how the implementation of project management can help them meet these needs. Better visibility of the manufacturing processes.

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Epicflow

MAY 4, 2023

Under conditions of frequent changes and uncertainty, it’s also important not to lose the focal point of R&D projects: first, they should correspond to an organization’s strategic goals; second, they should meet the client’s needs.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2021

He thought agile approaches would work to “meet” and “enforce” deadlines. I asked him these questions: Do you think people don't want to meet their deadlines? The company had deadlines because it wanted to meet market demands. These patterns make “meeting” a deadline impossible.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Even when we had boxed software, that was less risky than trying to manage an impossible project. You might be able to tolerate more defects which would allow you to meet the date. Agile approaches help us manage a ranked feature set in a specific time period (even if we don't use iterations). You have one constraint.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Many project-driven organizations are finding that they can operate much more efficiently with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. What is ERP Software? ERP is a type of software system that helps organizations automate and manage core business processes for optimal performance. Ensure business agility.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. (I I didn't like what I saw at the Agile 2019 conference.) This part is about what “Agile” or “agile” means. I understand that people want what they perceive as the value “Agile” will bring them. Why a Manifesto?

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Resource capacity planning is the process of determining the number of resources required to meet the project needs, i.e., forecasting the gap between available employees and the required ones. With the increasing popularity of Agile approaches, self-organizing teams have become more common, especially when it comes to IT projects.

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Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Backed by award-winning services and support teams, Blackbaud’s comprehensive set of Internet solutions, featuring Blackbaud NetCommunity and Blackbaud Sphere eMarketing along with our industry leading peer-to-peer and event fundraising solution, Friends Asking Friends , is designed to meet the evolving needs of nonprofits.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 8, 2017

It took another month for the software to be ready.). Here’s one small example: Although I insist on weekly or biweekly one-on-ones (depending on the person and circumstance), I work with people to find the right time for them to meet with me. I do this in agile organizations as a matter of course.). They set the time.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Agilent Technologies, separating from Hewlett Packard, turned to Deloitte to help facilitate the transaction and Deloitte in turn asked Steve Pratt to act as project lead. Soon, Pratt and Joshi talked and Agilent became the first client Deloitte served using a global delivery model (GDM). Agile Enterprise. For Infosys Inc.,

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1 to 1

APRIL 21, 2022

It’s up to businesses to figure out how to best meet those expectations. Keep track of new software developments and learnings, adopting a more iterative approach to implementation versus a one and done. When it comes to customer service, customers expect fast and accurate support through the channel of their choice.

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Epicflow

JUNE 8, 2022

Agile has become the most popular methodology in recent years and has proven its efficiency for millions of companies already so nobody has any doubts about it today. Being agile means being flexible enough to adequately and timely react to any alterations of your project environment and any external changes that may happen at any time.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Are you trying to make an agile framework or approach work? Maybe you've received a mandate to “go agile.” Or, maybe you're trying to fit an agile framework into your current processes—and you've got a mess. I've seen plenty of problems when people try to adopt “agile” wholesale.

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1 to 1

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

An outsource partner can also give companies access to digital systems and software services without paying for maintenance fees. Agile outsourced support from day one : A case study on end-to-end outsourced support that delivers best-in-class results. What are managed services? It needs a strategic solution.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

• Analytics and machine learning : Could software agents, bots, or intelligent machines (e.g., Can the infrastructure be transformed to a more agile IT-as-a-service model? How can IT best meet the demands for a dynamically changing landscape of apps and devices? IBM Watson) make tasks easier?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

A department running over its budget during a fiscal year must reduce its expenditures to meet the annual spending target regardless of the consequences in future years. Typically, technology hardware and perpetual software licenses are purchased via capital budgets. Problem 2: Rigid annual operating budgets.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2017

And what we found in our interviews was an interesting reinforcement of our prior work on employer branding and agile talent. I like to have control over my work schedule and actually find I work better at home with intermittent meetings. Autonomy: Independence, seeking choice and flexibility. But autonomy is a close second.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 18, 2021

Meeting these challenges while reducing cost to serve will require a digital-first, customer-centric approach. More often we are seeing digitally transforming legacy support systems as a key to meeting modern expectations. These roll up into what we call ‘effortless’ experiences, which will define the new age in retail.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This situation exists because, believe it or not, a lot of organizations lack any mechanisms to help them actively manage the evaluation, selection, monitoring, and adjustment of digital investments to achieve clearly defined business results while meeting clear risk and return expectations. Implementation criteria.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Consider the case of an online advertising and software company serving car dealers. New data sources and predictive analytics software can help inside sales organizations identify target accounts and allocate marketing and sales resources in real time. A shift to inside sales usually requires better digital marketing capabilities.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

The ones that persisted are incredibly well-positioned today, having transformed their business processes and enabled a level of agility that competitors cannot easily mimic. Examples of these projects might be a voice interface to help pharmacists look up substitute drugs, or a tool to schedule internal meetings. Insight Center.

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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. In other words, two software developers always work together. It signals that breakfast is over and the office-wide meeting is about to start. It’s a rule.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

The essays are based on Scott Berkun’s work experience as a project manager at Microsoft, which however doesn’t mean that his guidelines will be useful for software development projects only. The edition will be helpful for both beginners and seasoned project managers. In addition, the book provides you with: Practical advice (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Nearly every business leader I meet fears being overcome by tech-savvy upstarts. Scalers iteratively experiment and tweak new ideas until they find product-market fit using methods like agile or lean. D-BASE/Getty Images. That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations.

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