Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In this part, I’ll discuss an option for a product-oriented organization. Consider a Product-Oriented Organization. Instead of organizing by function, consider a product-oriented organization. Again, I am not saying this is the only way a product organization would look, but this is a possibility. What do you do?

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2023

” It depends on how your lifecycle manages feedback loops and learning, how collaborative the team is, and how much WIP the team has. Each Lifecycle Manages Feedback Loops Differently Brooks wrote the original version of The Mythical Man-Month in 1975, based on the 1960s IBM 360 project. What does management choose to do?

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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. The first time a manager asked me how many man-weeks my work would take, I said, “Zero. Demo inside the organization.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The functionality necessary to complete these project management processes is simply not accessible from a simple General Ledger (GL) only. Additionally, the time needed to reconcile spreadsheets to both the GL and project reporting negatively affects productivity which in turn risks profitability. Gain real-time visibility into costs.

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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? global chip shortage), and the need for reducing production costs add to the above-mentioned difficulties. . The need to shorten the time for product development. Read further to explore these issues in detail. .

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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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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 Tractor Supply Co.,

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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. The tech in the room was completely efficient. He then efficiently got me into a lavaliere microphone, did a sound check handed me a slide clicker and declared me, “Good to go.”. She was delightful.

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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

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. The goal to release the product. When the team can focus on the product, as a cross-functional team, they can create some agility.

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Epicflow

DECEMBER 8, 2022

For example, standing in the middle of a messy house may seem overwhelming, but if you tidy the rooms one by one, the cleaning up will turn out to be quite manageable. . Read further to get a full picture of project deliverables, and learn how to identify and manage them efficiently. Project management documents (e.g.,

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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. Where the organization rewards resource efficiency, not flow efficiency.) That's a form of managing WIP.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

I started this series with many specific concerns about a particular 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. And these managers have not read the Scrum Guide.

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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

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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Jerry Fletcher

APRIL 24, 2021

Scientists have found 8 management behaviors that use Oxytocin balance to make people more productive. The same study indicates that businesses are considered the most ethical and the most efficient and expected to lead in the New Normal. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. When we’re stressed we have too little.

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 27, 2017

81% of management consulting firms list attracting & developing new business as their #1 challenge. Whether you are selling productized consulting on your website or use it as a way to foster interaction with potential clients, B2B buyers expect to be able to purchase your services. Some sort of product or productized consulting?

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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. The previous manager had focused on resource efficiency, not flow efficiency , so everyone had “their” own work. The manager thought that the people would get more done if they started more. Six “new” developers.

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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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