Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. 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.) Tip 3: Reduce the Team's WIP.

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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. There might be a “centralized” function for these groups, but all the people developing and supporting this product are in the product line. That was fine.

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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. ” Even if the developers and testers are one team, I still see UX or UI teams. The more frequently you can demo, the better.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Nor do the teams demo on a regular basis. The developers and testers and anyone else on the product or feature teams. The feedback loops helped the teams create smaller features, which allowed the teams to move to weekly builds and demos. Your customers can't take your product more often than once or twice a year. Colleagues?).

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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

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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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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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

JUNE 24, 2021

In addition, each component team worked on any number of products, both development and support, for any given iteration. However, software product development is not construction. Software product development requires feedback loops and learning. Over months, they stopped demoing anything. And remotely!)

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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. This quick and dirty development can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain, and incapable of scaling.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Barry Boehm developed the spiral model. We develop test plans early. In Evolutionary Prototyping, we develop the initial concept—not all the requirements. Once our customers saw demos, they wanted to change things. We need designers, testers, anyone aside from developers to develop the prototypes.

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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. They are founded on new principles and new conceptions, which in turn are painstakingly developed by research in the purest realms of science.” ” We need to move faster.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

That “team” consisted of: Three original developers, the old guard. The original architect and developers.) Six “new” developers. Some of the dysfunction was due to the culture, which discouraged collaboration. That's when the culture of experience spat in my face.

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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. But the demand for software developers was high and I was good. When to give into demands to demo (“I haven't tested!”)

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