Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Are you a manager accustomed to Management by Walking Around and Listening (MBWAL) ? You have an opportunity to work differently as a manager. 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.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2022

Every sprint delivers working product.” Not the thinking and learning that go into the deliverables where you end up with something demo-able, if not usable.” They do have product goals. However, they don't deliver value, have team-based planning, a review/demo, or a retrospective. ” “Oooh.”

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Once the team completes that highest priority feature(s), the team can release the product. When we release, we can regroup and figure out what to do next for this product. Fork another product. (I I did this with several Lite vs Pro products using this approach.). See and demo the product as it grows.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 28, 2018

I mentioned how you could integrate the demo work into an iteration if you create a column for the demo. Here’s a picture of how you might create a kanban with a Demo state, just before the Done column. Here’s how you walk this board: Start at the column just before Done, the Demo column.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 5, 2021

Many managers want to know the answers to these questions: When will we see the first bit? That might be the feature set or the product. ). Your team manages its WIP. However, maybe this is a new product for you and you don't quite know how to do that yet. Your managers are asking you to give them the 50% confidence date.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

There's a great introduction article, Capitalization of software development costs.). Let's assume everyone works together, on one project (product, if you prefer). So, let's assume the team spends a total of 4 hours planning, retrospecting, demoing, all that non-creation time out of the 40 hours the team works. Yeah, right.

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Steve Shu Consulting

APRIL 2, 2010

Often need a mix of instruments here (Powerpoint & Word docs, napkin drawings, demo), depending on the team, industry, and phase of product development (e.g., technology feasibility, commercial feasibility, ramp-up). for government grants). How do you view you business planning efforts?

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Epicflow

JANUARY 21, 2022

What issues will they bring to automotive project management, and what are the ways to address them? Its current development is primarily driven by 4 major trends: connectivity, autonomous vehicles, shared mobility, and electrification. The need to shorten the time for product development. Dealing with uncertainty.

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The Fearless Marketer

JANUARY 13, 2020

Let’s say you’re a manager who’s looking for somebody to help their team work more productively and creatively. Do they look up productivity consultants on Google, find a web product page about “Productivity and Creative Services for Businesses” and then click on the buy button? Wouldn’t that be nice!

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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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1 to 1

JANUARY 25, 2024

It dominated panel discussions, powered nearly every product demo on the trade show floor, and featured in economic forecasting discussions. The app has increased customer satisfaction, reduced employee effort, and helped workers gain knowledge about in-store products, said Glenn Allison, Tractor Supply Co.’s

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 5, 2018

When a team releases more often, the product people can replan the product roadmaps. The product people don’t create MVEs or MVPs —they need the entire feature set. We all use bloated products that make our lives miserable every day. The longer the team goes without a demo, the less replanning anyone can do.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

Part 2 was why we need managers in an agile transformation. And, that your products and services need short feedback loops that an agile approach will use. Start with management first. How can the managers use agility in their work? Management Teams and Agility: Flow & Resilience. Yes, the managers collaborate.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 2024

Tip 1: Start and Maintain a Cross-Functional Team for the Entire Project I still see many supposedly agile “teams,” where the project has a “development team” and a “testing team.” ” 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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Jerry Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

My expectation from the run-up back and forth with various staff members was that this would be a well-managed professional event. Well, what I do is work with individuals and organizations to develop unique trust-based strategies to build businesses, brands and lives of joy. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel. She was delightful.

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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 want rigid roadmaps. Because the managers want to “know” the teams will deliver it all. However, the managers create a roadmap similar to the image above. Demo on a regular cadence.

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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. Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2021

I suspected I would learn about engagement with my next questions about management patterns. Management Patterns That Might Cause a Team to Miss “Deadlines” I find two general buckets of problems for missing deadlines: how management organizes teams and the “need” for certain measures.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 25, 2023

I also said I don't blame the managers for wanting to know. But instead of placating the managers and trying to estimate, consider starting with this question: How do you plan to use this information? By product, where they assign a team to a product for a long period of time. Here's the bad news.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

They are: Understand the various risks: project, product, and organization, and how to manage those risks with feedback loops. Let's start with risks and how feedback loops manage those risks. And product development has at least these risks: Project-based risks, so we can make effective tradeoffs. 1,2 and so on.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

In addition, a product leader might approve the feature. Finally, the team, a product leader, or the customer(!) might demo the feature. That defect escaped all your checklists, approvals, and demos. That's because they knew the customers would find problems the development teams had not found.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Back in Part 1 of this series, I explained all the problems I saw with this interview question: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. They (the team) feel that the tasks for the sprint are too varied to manage to a single sprint goal. What should the Scrum Master do?”

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Barry Boehm developed the spiral model. We develop test plans early. The spiral model assumes that if you get feedback early enough, you've managed the technical and requirements risks. The spiral model assumes that if you get feedback early enough, you've managed the technical and requirements risks. The Spiral Model.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I was using that time to transition into a project management role in media. I got a part-time job in a retail store, and in my downtime I just started a learning a lot of the tools necessary in order to be a producer/project manager in media. I eventually built up a little demo reel, and I started presenting that to other companies.

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Asamby Consulting

APRIL 14, 2022

We also use it internally at Asamby for most of our tasks like: CRM, hours logging, payment tracking, task management, dashboard,) Please note that we recommend AirTable for many day-to-day processes and activities except those related to critical data like accounting, invoices, etc. a consulting project or a media agency engagement).

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

together with the delayed work, this can lead to missed project due dates; overloaded resources are stressed, their productivity drops, which can result in burnout. This is why one of the essential rules of the Epicflow approach to resource management is “Make sure not a single resource is overloaded”.

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ConsultX

MARCH 1, 2022

History of the Profit Leakage Calculator ConsultX has developed its own Profit Leakage Calculator as a diagnostic tool to discover the areas of a business that are draining the most profit. Calculation The Profit Leakage Calculator processes the financial and Business Analysis information based on a highly developed algorithm.

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Jerry Fletcher

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

I was zooming today with the founder of an organization using Mighty Networks as the software they use to manage their expanding community. Here’s how I stay connected and still manage to keep my business thriving: I plan my weeks to assure blocks of time for clients. Don’t waste production time. Lots of content. And so it goes.

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Jerry Fletcher

APRIL 24, 2021

Here are some of the reasons I’m being asked to present this information: Quotes: In a panel on Lead development I said, “ More is not better. Scientists have found 8 management behaviors that use Oxytocin balance to make people more productive. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. What’s Changed? And so it goes.

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Jerry Fletcher

DECEMBER 11, 2021

I’ve come to the conclusion that Contact Relationship Management is no longer an arena I want to work in. Management doesn’t understand it and more importantly does not understand that tasking sales-people with upkeep is a losing proposition. The first quarter for 2022 is in production now. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel.

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 27, 2017

81% of management consulting firms list attracting & developing new business as their #1 challenge. Tweet this “Attract & develop new business” is a fancy way of turning leads into paying clients. Tweet this It’s hard to develop strong relationships without following up. Roadmapping Session?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

So for companies looking to create revolutionary products, identifying and accessing cutting edge, exploratory research is a key competitive advantage. As Bush wrote in 1945: “New products and new processes do not appear full-grown. ” Yet that poses a problem for managers. Monitor and participate.

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Epicflow

DECEMBER 29, 2022

We’ve been working hard, and we’ll do even more next year to make Epicflow stay the best multi-project resource management solution available on the market. SoftwareWorld Includes Epicflow in the List of Top 2022 Resource Management Solutions . New Office for a Bigger Epicflow Team, Management & Client Base Updates .

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Back in the 1990s, I worked as a hands-on program manager for a 12-person team. That “team” consisted of: Three original developers, the old guard. The original architect and developers.) Six “new” developers. The manager thought that the people would get more done if they started more.

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Jerry Fletcher

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I’ll bet neither have managed to tap you on the shoulder so far. Not long after that I was trying to convince the man who has now been a client for a decade that moving from doing turnarounds as a CEO or COO to Leadership and Management Consulting was significantly different and that he did not have a team in place to handle the shift.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Do you need feedback loops so you can: Cancel the project at any time (to manage schedule and cost risks. Assess technical risks so you can rework the architecture or design to manage feature set risks. Manage what you release to customers so you can manage defect, feature set, schedule, and cost risks.

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