Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

In innovative products, the interdependencies can change any day. ” There's more in Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management.) If your product does not need much innovation, you can plan for longer and know you will meet that plan. See Three Tips to Focus to Deliver Better Products Faster.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 10, 2024

When I work with these teams or their managers, I realize they're not demoing or retrospecting on a regular basis. Worse, these people and teams don't feel any satisfaction with their products. The managers worry that the teams can't finish “anything on time.” That creates distrust and an anti-agile culture.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2020

In Costs of an Agile Approach for Hardware Products , I suggested that an iteration-based approach for hardware was too expensive. Those people work independently until they need to verify the product as a whole, works. This hardware team swarms on a product. You can use an agile approach for parts of a hardware product.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I like to ask them to choose a challenging production support problem, or something else that's making them nuts. I explain the activity in this way: Your managers wanted you to fix this problem yesterday. Show a demo of whatever you complete at the 15-minute mark. Something they want to address now. No extra planning time.

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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

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

JANUARY 16, 2019

That desire bumps up against their management's desires for longer commitments. High Need for Product Innovation and Change. The more need for product innovation and change, the shorter the feedback loops need to be. When the product requires much innovation and change, management doesn't need estimates.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2021

Example 1: Startup/Small Organization with Few Products. They offer their product in two versions: Pro and Lite. The first was not waiting for the end of an iteration to demo or release. They demo'd every week on Wednesday mornings and then they released after the demo. The managers like the quarterly planning.

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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

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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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 7, 2019

They have to manage extra work—work they had not estimated—in the form of an emergency or production support. One of the managers I coached asked this question, “Is there any way to estimate ‘right' for two weeks at a time? I see these problems a lot when the product owner has feature-itis.

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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 17, 2021

” When we have insufficient trust, morale and the products deteriorate. Instead, we can extend trust and keep innovating for morale and the products. This image shows a 6-person team where the leader/manager micromanages. Some managers want to stay “relevant,” so they work on the technical work.

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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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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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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

You know you need more feedback and resilience in your project/program, so you’ve created a product value team to reassess the roadmap on a regular basis. Your managers are not yet. Managers need commitments and predictions for a number of excellent reasons. They need to plan on revenue from products and services.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 28, 2019

And, someone on your team keeps a Gantt chart because a manager wants to see the team's progress in a form they feel comfortable with. If you're in this pickle, your manager might think your agile team doesn't replan very often. That manager might assume your team uses an agile approach only as a way to deliver.

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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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Jerry Fletcher

OCTOBER 23, 2021

It was good to hear how the little golf product company he founded was doing. He had worked through and solved his production problems in way that turned out to be scalable. He was handling fulfillment personally pulling, assembling, packaging and shipping product on an as needed basis. What does the product get the buyer?

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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

JUNE 18, 2021

Management can't hire people for the same salaries they used to pay.). Or, that while managers might want people “back” in the office, not everyone wants to work in an office. Worst of all, too many managers still want to micromanage people—and that's more difficult when people aren't in the office.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

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. I would add demoing in as value creation, but I'm not sure how accountants categorize feedback loops.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 28, 2019

You've got interdependencies across the organization for a given project or program to release a product. You can see demos. You need enough insight or prediction to start the marketing campaign or to create training videos or product documentation. Release criteria tells you when a product is done.

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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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Jerry Fletcher

MARCH 13, 2021

If you’re a manager that means both the management team you are a part of and your direct reports. Not a manager? Your team includes all the folks that get credit when the job is done, the objective reached, or the product is delivered. Trust lowers your stress and makes you more productive. Your Company.

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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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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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ConsultX

MARCH 1, 2022

Business Owners can Understand For many years, Business Owners and managers have never been able to comprehend the financial implications on issues within a business. Check out a demo of the ConsultX System, including the Profit Leakage Calculator. Watch 6 Minute Demo of ConsultX and the Profit Leakage Calculator.

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Women in Consulting

JANUARY 11, 2018

First consultants eliminated were ME CENTERED …they dominated the conversation, told all about their processes, products, past clients. They quoted all of the latest management books, they were able to quote facts from all of the top surveys and analysis, they had a quote, a fact and the references to back up everything they said.

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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., Business Development General Management Intrapreneurship Management Consulting Sales And Marketing Ventures & Entrepreneurship Business Plan Entrepreneurship Strategy'

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The other two ideas are about information for the product owner and possibly the product manager. When product owners have feature-itis and treat teams like feature factories, they miss all the juicy information the team might have about this feature and what it means for the feature set and the roadmap.

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LSA Global

MAY 24, 2023

When a Sales Prospect Says No Most sales managers teach their salespeople to be persistent. However, salespeople are human, and when a sales prospect says no — to a sales meeting , to a demo, or to the sale itself — they may be tempted to think that “no means no” and stop or delay pursuing their ideal target client.

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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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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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