Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

How do we move from a project-based organization towards a product organization? There are at least two systems of work we need to change: The management system and the culture of management. How the teams work and their team culture. I think it’s similar to the Big Ball of Mud antipattern in software.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Now however, controversy about the productivity challenges of leading remote work teams confront organizational assumptions about its effectiveness. The Council on Foreign Relations shares global research on how productivity increases in remote work settings. Owl Labs date says they are 47% more productive. hours a week.

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Epicflow

JULY 12, 2022

During the recent decade, companies have been making efforts to transform their business processes and culture to turn into data-driven organizations. . At the same time, the talent component shouldn’t be left aside: data alone cannot lead companies to success without human expertise to use in an efficient way. . Cultural challenges.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve, a software development manager, thought John was a “10x” developer. Maybe even draw a picture of when the story/product completes. (I All the ways John's code connected—or didn't—to the rest of the product. In addition, they work to simplify their code and the entire product.

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Kraft Kennedy

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Is it acceptable to use your family computer to access your firm’s work product? The answers to these and hundreds of other questions should be documented and considered integra l to the operations of all organizations, especially in industries where work product and client data are highly sensitive, and highly valuable.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 15, 2019

If you take the meaning, and not the words behind the imperatives, you see the need for a culture change. If you are not a software person by training, you might think typing is the thing we need to optimize for in software. Typing is the easiest part of writing software. As we learn together, we can create the product.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 11, 2022

As long as change management is a comprehensive process, its assessment should cover multiple dimensions: how efficient the established process is, how people feel about transformations, what business outcomes have been achieved, etc. Assessing people’s attitude and culture . Culture mapping. Analysis based on the ADKAR model.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I love where the product is going. ” Al feels productive and engaged. Before his team started to work from home, he'd: Waited for management signoffs before he could release to production. The team discovered they learned faster and created better products together. I'm so much happier. How can I do more of this?”

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Successful project delivery is usually a result of efficient management of both workflow and resources. In a multi-project environment, ensuring productive work of team members gains even more importance: resources are shared by concurrent projects, and their fruitful work on them will be impossible without wise resource management. .

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Emerson Consulting Group

JANUARY 20, 2021

Efficiency in business comes down to reaching goals with the highest degree of quality and speed possible. When workflow breaks down and this efficiency fails, it’s worth questioning why it happened and how to prevent it in the future. If the hands and feet, eyes and ears don’t coordinate, the body can’t move efficiently.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

They do that with: Assessing and managing project or program risks for the team's effort and the overall product. Each person works in resource efficiency, focused on their deliverables. Too often, people outside the team, such as managers or product managers, create the team's multitasking. Not for the product.

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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 the Flow Efficiency series.)

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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.

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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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Asamby Consulting

JULY 25, 2022

How do people collaborate, what's our culture like? Processes The quality of your processes determines how efficient and stable your execution will be. new markets) or building new processes (new channels, products or services). Do all departments work with efficient software tools? Check out our privacy policy.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

For years, we've used several metaphors to describe software product development: People-based metaphors, such as: Man-weeks for all the humans working on a project or a product. In product development, is it anyone's job to make a baby at work? Is releasing a product anything like giving birth?

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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. Many of us know this intuitively: best practices are optimized for a particular place and time and don’t necessarily transfer well between cultures. Leaders from the U.S.

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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 the Flow Efficiency series.)

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

“Data scientists, fast computers, and advanced software are replacing traditional decision-making processes and disrupting tried-and trusted traditional consulting methodologies, with Big Data being one of the main forces of disruption” ( Tras, 2015 ). The words “big data” have become a “buzzword” in the business industry.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The three towers, which dominate the landscape of the Gangnam district, were built to consolidate many of the activities of the firm; their imposing presence is emblematic of the company’s hierarchal culture. Killing products isn’t easy. They invest significant resources in research, marketing, and distribution.

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PM Alliance

JANUARY 7, 2022

User-friendly dashboards are a good option to help stakeholders filter, sort, and manipulate data so they can quickly find the reports they need without learning a new software platform. It can also be a useful option to trim travel expenses and minimize downtime, further enabling cost efficiency and productivity.

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BCG

AUGUST 17, 2016

Agile development has gone mainstream, but the software development methodology that helped hundreds of Silicon Valley startups explode onto the scene has delivered decidedly mixed results for more traditional organizations. In most cases, there is a critical point of failure: the product owner.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The first is that Brooks strongly suggested the idea of a “surgical team” That hierarchical team was a feature- or product-based team. Ten people, seven of them professionals, are at work on the problem, but the system is the product of one mind–or at most two, acting uno animo.”

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

It also puts a fundamental question back on the agendas of CEOs in other industries: Will software eat the world, as Marc Andreessen famously quipped? There are three types of products today. Type 2: These are once-analog products that have now been converted into digital products, such as photography, books, and music.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Is the target company’s culture very different? product cross-selling, using one company’s distribution channels for the other company’s products, etc.)? cultural integration, regulation, etc.)? Indeed IBM has a presence in the largest software markets in the world (e.g. Does the target own any assets (e.g.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Technology combined with data is a matter of life and death for professional services firms where the “product” is a combination of insights and expertise. Agility Evolution Agile transformation represents an ongoing effort to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the organization. How often do you release new products/services?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2021

That disconnect occurs when managers, HR, everyone focuses on resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. If we ask people to work in flow efficiency, how can we possibly reward them on resource efficiency? First two jobs: software developer plus project management responsibilities. What we encourage in the work.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Agile espouses short cycles, regular reflection, and course correction based on evidence collected during the software production process.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

Let me tell you, our large enterprise clients’ processes are highly dependent upon software. We know that the pace of change around software is lightning-fast. Driving digital transformation really means driving rapid, efficient, and high-ROI responses to those changes. Angelia Herrin, host. Angelia Herrin, host.

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1 to 1

MAY 26, 2022

Regression models are also commonly used to anticipate customer buying patterns – what product a customer will buy, when, and through what channel. Crystal Ball, No – Predictive Analytics, Yes – Our client was transitioning from a product-led culture to one designed around service. A brave new data world.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

The essays are based on Scott Berkun’s work experience as a project manager at Microsoft, which however doesn’t mean that his guidelines will be useful for software development projects only. The “productive laziness” is built on the Pareto principle that states that in many cases, 80% of the consequences come from 20% of the causes.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 8, 2017

One of my managers asked me to postpone a vacation for one week because the product would “surely” be ready the week I was planning to go. It took another month for the software to be ready.). In addition, see the flow efficiency series. Overtime is not useful because the more tired we get, the worse job we do.

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Epicflow

JULY 27, 2022

Increasing employee productivity is a hot topic in every business environment today. What Affects Employee Productivity? There are plenty of factors impacting people’s productivity – from proper workflow organization to employees’ lifestyle and health condition. Company culture . Let’s figure it out in the article. .

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2017

To make matters worse, my findings indicated that when the supervisor was copied in often, employees felt less trusted, and this feeling automatically led them to infer that the organizational culture must be low in trust overall, fostering a culture of fear and low psychological safety.

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Peter Stark

APRIL 14, 2019

In this list, technical issues with software or other tools was rated #1; and disorganized and time-wasting systems and processes was #4. The end result, when systems and processes interfere with an employee’s ability to do their job, it decreases productivity, teamwork and engagement. So now what. . Ask team members for input.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

While security executives have a reputation for stymieing operations and product development with the burdens of technical operations, their role is actually to enable business. Make sure that security is included in discussions on new products and services. Focus as much on culture as technology.

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Comatch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Below we will examine the advantages of hiring highly skilled on-demand talent , as well as the steps companies need to take to ensure they harness this resource in the most productive way possible. . Hiring On-Demand Talent: The Advantages. Advantage #1: A Solution to the Talent Problem.

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