Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This team started off with a serial lifecycle, so they didn't even plan to have a demo until about September or so. I chose to add more testers and writers and increase the team's collaboration so we could see a monthly demo. Now, the tester was 6 months behind. At the time, I did not realize I reduced the WIP.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Here are some examples: Demos, even of partially working product. It might not be a customer-worthy demo, but it's a demo of a sort.). See Three Collaboration Secrets to Create Your Agile Culture.) If your team is still learning how to work as a team , consider the ideas in Visible Progress. Tip 3: Reduce the Team's WIP.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2021

Ask for a regular cadence of demos, too. The more often you see a demo, the more often you can see the team succeed. I offer many possible options for measures in Create Your Successful Agile Project. Two of them are the product backlog burnup and the feature chart in Velocity is Not Acceleration.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency, where we focus on watching the work, not the people. This can work well if you demo something at least monthly once you start writing code and tests. But that's the value of the demo.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Because your context is unique to you, your team, project, product, and culture. And, with any luck, nudges the culture in a good direction for your team, project, and product. Why Do You Want an Agile Culture for Your Product? Notice I said the culture is for this particular product. What do you need?

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2020

See and demo the product as it grows. If your company can't create an agile culture, consider an incremental lifecycle, especially if you have schedule risks. Release as often as we have finished features. End the project whenever we want to. This addresses schedule risk.).

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Nor do the teams demo on a regular basis. The feedback loops helped the teams create smaller features, which allowed the teams to move to weekly builds and demos. These clients are starting to create culture change with internal deliverables, even though their customers can't take and don't want weekly deliverables.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Instead, I see assumptions that reveal a divide-and-conquer, and possibly a command-and-control culture, not an agile culture. See How to Start Thinking in Flow Efficiency for Better Teamwork & Throughput and What Does Your Culture Value: People “Efficiency” or Work Throughput? When was the most recent demo?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. What about those cultural changes? And once you release regularly, you can deliver and demo that often.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Demo inside the organization. But they learn as they: Prototype and ask for feedback. Conjecture about an architecture or an algorithm, and test their theories. Build, as in compile, and create a usable version. Release outside the building for customer feedback. Other people think all we do is type and build.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

This post is about what you can do to create an agile culture, regardless of where you are in the organization. BTW: One more thing about an agile culture: Many of the people I spoke with at the conference are convinced they need to “scale.” And, they change the culture to one that supports agile approaches.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Not only does each team have all the skills and capabilities it needs, but the product line has all the skills and capabilities it needs to manage the culture. Instead, the projects used a staged-delivery life cycle , an incremental approach with cross-functional teams and monthly demos. That includes product ownership.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 29, 2021

Demo on a regular cadence. An agile approach will work better, but an agile approach is a cultural change, which you might not need.). Which means you can demo at will. Demo Early and Often. In addition, create a cadence for demos, such as Wednesday morning at noon or just before. Record the demo.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 11, 2019

They more often use flow with various cadences of planning, demos, and retrospectives. That's now, where I rarely see an agile culture. Maybe if I saw an agile culture we wouldn't need that separation.). She is a servant leader for the team. If the team uses Scrum, she might be a Scrum Master.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 11, 2019

And because every sales team has a unique sales strategy, culture, solution, and definition of winning, the best sales playbooks are unique to each organization and target buyer persona. Sales Culture. Do not underestimate the need for the right sales culture to meet your targets. Sales Talent.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

When organizations lack a formal innovation pipeline process, project approvals tend to be based on who has the best demo or slides, or who lobbies the hardest. Organizational debt is all the people and culture compromises made to “just get it done” in the early stages of an innovation project.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2021

Because the “teams” couldn't deliver something small, they didn't demo very often. Over months, they stopped demoing anything. Because no one saw any demos, management couldn't trust the teams to deliver. Then, the managers asked the teams to demo something every week instead of measuring schedule variance.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2016

We all have the tendency to look at other cultures through the lens of our own. In my experience working and teaching across cultures, I’ve noticed one important area where this frequently causes conflicts: deadlines. Western cultures tend to view time as linear , with a definitive beginning and end. Pamela Hinds.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

This culture shift ripples down from the top and what often felt like a company on a mission to change the world now feels like another job. As process oriented as the new CEOs are, you get the sense that one of the things they don’t love are the products (go look at the Apple Watch announcements and see who demos it).

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Once our customers saw demos, they wanted to change things. However, if you use cross-functional teams, Evolutionary Prototyping shines as a way to reduce risk, especially if your company can't develop and maintain an agile culture. The blue lines are the feedback we expected. I know, what a surprise. Part 1, Serial Lifecycles.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

To account for its success, many point to America’s entrepreneurial culture, its tolerance for failure and its unique ecosystem of venture funding. Eric Haller, EVP and Global Head at Experian Data Labs emphasizes creating a culture of discovery. ” Bridge the cultural divide. ” We need to move faster.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Some of the dysfunction was due to the culture, which discouraged collaboration. That's when the culture of experience spat in my face. Culture Trumps Everything Up until I arrived, the “team” culture was anti-collaboration. Then, senior management offered kudos when we showed a demo.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Dan Lyons’s book Disrupted is an often-delightful tour through startup culture, based on the author’s experience working at online marketing firm HubSpot. Despite taking the faux-curmudgeonly attitude of an anthropologist exploring the strange world of business dudes — is a sales funnel really that much of a novelty?

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Project lifecycles and cultures manage all those risks. And, you can decide if you want to try to change the culture. Or, you might only need informal demos to show people where you are. You might show other people internal demos. You don't have to change your culture to use any lifecycle. You'd like to experiment.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The closer to the left your products are, the more your managers might be open to changing their behaviors and the culture. TL; DR: “Stop making it harder” is a culture problem. However, note that the corporate Culture (Big-C-Culture) was that they could take advantage of women. The closer to the right?

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