Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

I'm experimenting with audio and video. I will also add those videos to my YouTube channel. In the agile/lean communities, we talk about WIP as all the work in progress for the person, team, and organization. So I started a podcast called, “60 Seconds of Johanna's WIP.” I will see how often life gets in the way.

Agile 82

Agile Video Consulting Management 82

Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

These systems can suggest relevant products that customers are likely to enjoy. For example, Alibaba, a leading Chinese e-commerce company, could conduct sentiment analysis of customer reviews of individual products and services, and use these insights to modify existing products and develop new ones.

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Data Operations Efficiency System 147

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Substitute video for MBWAL. If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. The better the team learns together, the better the product is.

Management 92

Management Agile Metrics Video 92

Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. Rather than debating the advantages of agile teams, why not start demonstrating them? Perhaps my journey to agile will help you figure out how to begin your own.

Agile 39

Agile Energy Retail Case Interview 39

Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 18, 2022

That led to these problems: The people wanted to leave their good audio/video setups at home because they knew they would need to work from home. Since the company had “good technology” in the conferences rooms, the managers didn't want to pay for people to get a (duplicate) good audio/video setup in the office.

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Conference Video Agile Meeting 106

Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

You used video and created useful times to work. 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. Find a way to “turn on” video for everyone? See Your Satellite Teams Traps.

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Agile Meeting Video Tools 108

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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Agile Software Case Interview Video 28

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Many of my clients use an iteration-based agile approach. They have to manage extra work—work they had not estimated—in the form of an emergency or production support. Why are you using an agile approach? I see these problems a lot when the product owner has feature-itis. Still too much? They were correct.

Management 58

Management Agile Productivity Analysis 58

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 30, 2020

In videos, podcasts, all kinds of “thought leader” work. This guy, from a famous agile consultancy, not only used my article. ” Remember, this was the premier agile consultancy at the time. First, I write as part of my product development. Not in writing, but in conversation. This happens.

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Agile Conference Development Productivity 107

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Substitute video for MBWAL. If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. The better the team learns together, the better the product is.

Management 52

Management Agile Metrics Video 52

Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. Build Agility. While it is easy to say these pivots were a result of agility, it is important to differentiate between “brilliant improvisation” and a repeatable capability.

Leadership 62

Leadership Agile Operations Survey 62

Johanna Rothman

JUNE 2, 2021

” When Susan, the agile project manager, started the next day, she took a picture of the paper. Yes, it might start with no coffee or the video tool doesn't work. This organization wanted what agile approaches offered. Which meant the product owners changed their minds more often than the projects could deliver outcomes.

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Trends Agile Data Tools 98

Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Emotional intelligence helps you build better relationships, reduce workplace stress, create productive conflict and improve employee retention. Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. I experienced the importance of cultural agility early in my career. Culture is one of the most potent forces in business.

Leadership 52

Leadership Emotional Intelligence Agile Culture 52

Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

That’s our product, and that’s our passion. It launched a product, gathered feedback, and kept iterating as it scaled and added users. At the other is a product or service that solves the problem or addresses the market in a way nobody has thought of before. Your data isn’t even in the picture.

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Productivity Engineering Accenture Banking 43

Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 11, 2022

Those are exactly the problems Daniel, Prateek, and I discussed in Aging Fun with Drunk Agile (Video). Just as you change your products.). Worse, the fact that I had a ton of aging work, the less I wanted to attack that work. That time wasn't valuable to me. But maybe the data was?

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Data Guidelines How To Agile 76

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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Agile Software Construction Productivity 66

Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Reform your team’s meeting habits to boost productivity and business impact as a CEO (a post-pandemic approach). Too many meetings will slowly weaken productivity by splintering everyone's work into small chunks and reducing their time for deep work. And with less productivity comes less impact and/or innovation.

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Meeting Tools Survey Productivity 52

Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

trillion per year; and (3) store-based retailers could profitably transition to a digital world by growing e-commerce sales cautiously enough to avoid diluting earnings and cannibalizing higher-margin store sales, while retreating to the most profitable stores and product categories that would be hardest for Amazon to attack.

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Retail Agile Sales Engineering 28

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. If you're a product leader, you need a product value team. When Teachable settles down, I can start to upload.

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Development Productivity Agile Video 88

Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

In the face of this dynamic, it isn’t enough to create new products and services. Unless we also design new ways of talking about ideas and exploring the future, those product and service innovations will never be embraced by the organization and never make their way out into the world. Related Video.

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Banking Data Productivity Video 47

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. This includes the product, the buying process, the ability to provide support, and customer relationships over time. Today, creative marketers need to operate more like entrepreneurs, continuously adjusting to sustain “ product/market fit.”

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Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 49

Harvard Business

AUGUST 20, 2018

NewTV, a new company focused on short-form video, just raised $1 billion dollars. NewTV is the creation of Jeffrey Katzenberg, whose track record includes head of production at Paramount, chair of Walt Disney Studios, and cofounder of DreamWorks. CSA Images/Colin McPherson/Getty Images. It’s the antithesis of the lean startup.

Methodologies 28

Methodologies Agile Productivity Development 28

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. “I’m constantly using and testing new platforms — live video, posts on Facebook, Instagram stories, and more. Help Employees Embrace Agility.

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Media Fashion Agile Sales 44

LSA Global

APRIL 18, 2017

This outsized, rugged, status-symbol of a GM product failed to see the writing on the wall. This company was doing great as the leader in video rentals. They were not agile enough. Their customers would have used them for books from small publishers, not CD or DVDs and not books from large presses to the exclusion of small.

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Change Management Management Film Pharmaceuticals 34

Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

A few years later they were caught napping when online upstarts disrupted industries such as music, travel, news, and video, while transforming scores of others. 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.

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Insurance Insurance Video Training 36

Harvard Business

APRIL 27, 2017

Related Video. See More Videos > See More Videos > But if you’re able to spot your trap, then you can stop the self-defeating habits that keep you in a constant state of elevated urgency. To do this, he used a 60/40 breakdown as a logic model to increase his situational agility. Identify Your Thinking Style.

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How To Video Meeting Agile 52

Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

However it plays out, Amazon’s outreach exposed a digital divide in the consumer products world. The cosmetic company responded with a new product, and backed it up with a dedicated consumer marketing plan. On one side is the growing interest of brands in direct-to-consumer (D2C) models. Make room for new technologies.

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Retail Apparel Media Fashion 28

Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

The results helped mobilize a significant part of the organization: people at all levels and functions teamed up to generate new revenues, cut costs, increase productivity, and enhance quality. They spread the word through videos and other means. The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P. Insight Center.

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Leadership Case Interview Accenture Groups 33

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Understanding your company’s DNA can help you know what you can and can’t do, and how to achieve agility and authenticity in a changing world. In this process, called “expression,” the instructions in the DNA are turned into proteins and other cellular products. But there may be more to the metaphor.

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How To Company Examples Strategy 28

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. They told us that the compressed schedule increased their focus and led them to be more discerning about the functionality they included in the product. Leaders from the U.S.

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Culture Research Case Interview Development 39

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. Rebecca Knight.

Productivity 28

Productivity Agile Time Management Meeting 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2017

Related Video. See More Videos > See More Videos > Consider how the dynamics of demand are changing. We calculate this technological transformation of the supply of resources could unlock as much as $400 billion in productivity cost savings for producers in 2035. Smart, Connected Mining. <span>How

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Resources Industry Energy Efficiency 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Think of new product development, or the parts of the company’s value chain and business model that are undergoing significant reinvention because of digital transformations. In these activities, speed of innovation is critical, and the rallying cry should be autonomy, small teams, and organizational agility.

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Agile Culture Operations Leadership 28

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2018

Ostensibly, young companies are “acqui-hired” more for their best people than for any real interest in their products, services, or ongoing operations. Smart companies and smart leaders think strategically about how their acquisitions promote greater agility and empowerment throughout the enterprise.

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Enterprise Talent How To Agile 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 26, 2018

We were working hard on getting product-market fit right, so anything we could do to get more customers and to find the right feature mix was a critical learning opportunity. A popular, core feature of our product was our website grader. I said “yes” to a highly fun and creative video series.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Productivity 52

Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

For example, devices like home assistants and wearables provide new signals to help marketers better understand how and when people are looking for answers to questions or researching products. ” or “Who actually watched the video fully?” Beaudin: No. Size doesn’t matter.

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Data Marketing Bain Media 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

Teams were told that an expert from the United States would be watching them remotely (with video) and would occasionally comment and advise them. A study of cross-functional product teams revealed that when leaders treated members of their team well and fairly, the team members were more productive individually and as a team.

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Training Training Study Film 28