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Want a Successful Agile Project? Start with Why Before How

Johanna Rothman

The teams think they have too many meetings. Those outcomes can help teams decide which agile approach(es) to start with and adapt. Let's start with who wants the teams to use an agile approach. Who Wants the Teams to Use an Agile Approach? I do like to understand the business reasons for an agile approach.

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Recognize the Problems That Prevent Effective Meetings (Collocated, Remote, Hybrid)

Johanna Rothman

” It's too hard to find time to meet. We can't find a place to meet. If we're back in the office, we have no meeting rooms. Or, we have some remote people, so we need several “places” to meet and the technology to support all those places. about meetings. We all have them. Most of us hate them.

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LSA Global Delivers Facilitative Leadership Workshop for Biotech Company

LSA Global

The leaders in the Facilitative Leadership Workshop faced the following challenges: High expectations to take, promote, and encourage a cross-functional and program focus vs. the predominant product and function focus that most of their internal customers follow and are rewarded for. Learn more about getting aligned.

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Agile Transformation: More Possible Organizational Measurements, Part 5

Johanna Rothman

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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How to Create Partnerships Instead of Using Stakeholders

Johanna Rothman

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. During that workshop, the participants all had the same question, “How do we engage our stakeholders? Then, explain that they don't have to meet with you for a long time, but they do need to meet with you frequently.

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Five Tips for Your Successful (Hybrid Remote) Satellite Team

Johanna Rothman

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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Apply “How Little” Thinking to Agile Management Control

Johanna Rothman

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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