Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. The better the team learns together, the better the product is. See Product Orientation Requires Technical Excellence ).

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Your customers can't take your product more often than once or twice a year. Because the product doesn't need to leave the building, the teams don't release internally. Nor do the teams demo on a regular basis. What if we thought of all these people as customers: The various people who buy the product. 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

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 goal to release the product.

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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

JULY 29, 2021

Several of my clients have internal struggles about how to internally see the future of the product. The managers think they need it “all” instead of using how little thinking to create a product the customers will love. Some possibilities: Assess the product/project risks to choose a lifecycle. What can you do?

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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. There is no burden on those who proposed a new idea or technology to talk to customers, build minimal viable products, test hypotheses or understand the barriers to deployment.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2021

I asked Brad these questions: Do you have product or feature teams that are cross-functional and can release alone? ( Component teams create interdependencies and take much more time to finish work.). Does each team focus on just one product at a time? Schedule Variance Does Not Make Sense for Software Products.

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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. That means you can replan the project or the product. That feedback would allow us to replan.

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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. So for companies looking to create revolutionary products, identifying and accessing cutting edge, exploratory research is a key competitive advantage. ” We need to move faster.

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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

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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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Maybe you want to use this project as a way to integrate a team into a new product or a new domain. 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'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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