Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Flow Efficiency In How Centralization Decisions Create Friction, Increase Cycle Time, and Cost Money, Part 1, I discussed how removing support staff for departments and managers created longer cycle times. Now, it's time for Economies of Scale and how that ties into resource efficiency thinking.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

I assume you have some sort of functional product development expertise. If not, why are you in technical product development? This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility. First, the product-based expertise. That's often product people, testers, and some UI/UX people.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. Their products and services did not ship outside the building—their products and services enabled the organization to make money. Adam, a product leader, has changed his meetings and workshops.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2022

I'm not sure how much WIP any given team should have. I'm also a fan of working in flow efficiency , so the team can finish more features faster. Also, see the Pairing, Swarming, Mobbing post so you can see how people might work together, keeping the team's WIP low. See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.)

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Epicflow

JANUARY 28, 2022

Besides, business owners can have their facilities around the world independent of their place of residence or other teams that aren’t involved in production. To plan projects’ flows and apply efficient allocation strategies, a project or a resource manager has to know how many resources will be needed to perform a planned scope of work.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 24, 2021

When one thinks of management consultants, one inevitably thinks of highly efficient workers. This is because an efficient way of working is essential as a management consultant. So, the crucial question is, how do you become an efficient worker to withstand the time pressure in a management consultancy? Simple as that.

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Comatch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

This is because hobbies can impact both internal drivers of efficiency, like multi-tasking, and external factors, such as networking and information collection. . 3 Reasons Hobbies Drive Productivity. Independent consultants are multi-role players, having to master every aspect of their consulting product. Stay Focused.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

In innovative products, the interdependencies can change any day. How is it possible these people have such different experiences than I do? If your product does not need much innovation, you can plan for longer and know you will meet that plan. Those are the kinds of products that do not require much, if any, innovation.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 9, 2021

Yet, in many businesses, there is often some overlap and confusion over what defines the roles of a front office and back office, making it difficult to prioritize an area for greater efficiency and productivity. Understanding how these areas intersect and how they can be optimized is critical for a business’s future success.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 17, 2020

This is a new experience for many of us, and poses new challenges and distractions that can make it difficult to stay focused and productive. I’ve been getting asked a lot lately about productivity, and so I thought I should dedicate an article to it. It doesn’t matter how focused you may be. Rise Early each Morning.

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Epicflow

MAY 12, 2022

What do you need to know to allocate resources efficiently in a multi-project environment and utilize them to the full? Resources are allocated efficiently when the right people work on the right tasks, while employees’ workload remains balanced – they are neither over- or underloaded. . Let’s figure it out in the article. .

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Consulthon

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The company I am managing for 3 years is planning to develop a new product. My team has started working on the new product. I am a manager in a financial services company. The sales and marketing t.

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Epicflow

JULY 27, 2022

Increasing employee productivity is a hot topic in every business environment today. How to make certain that your team members work at their full capacity, and how a resource management solution can help? What Affects Employee Productivity? Let’s figure it out in the article. . Employees’ workload.

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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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On the Brink Podcast

MARCH 9, 2020

Learn how to perform at your peak without making yourself sick! During her 16 years in business, she always positioned herself as the go-to person to help staff become more efficient and productive. Marcey Rader changed her life and wants to help you do the same. Always pushing, pushing, and pushing some more.

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Consulthon

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

One of the reasons is that we have created a new product for the organic markets. Hi All, One of my company's goals is to develop new international markets. Currently, I do research on Linkedin a.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

We hear a lot these days about project-based organizations vs. product-based organizations. Much of what we do in software is in service of products. Products tend to evolve over time. Here are some examples of projects where we learn, but the product doesn’t change: Events, such as weddings or conferences.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2019

Many people in the agile community promote a product orientation over a project orientation. That's possible because an organization has product or feature teams. That works until you have more products than teams. If you keep teams together, you can still use projects in a product-oriented organization.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 10, 2024

Worse, these people and teams don't feel any satisfaction with their products. And all those ways require we change the culture from that of resource-efficiency thinking to flow-efficiency thinking. Flow Efficiency Cultural Changes When teams collaborate, they work in flow efficiency and often see better teamwork and throughput.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 7, 2022

For example, you may have on average 1 minute and 15 seconds to drive a user to purchase your product. Scroll Length – This refers to how much of the page an average user views. The process of data collection, analysis, and product improvements for the desktop website will be different from the mobile site. Deliver Efficiency.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 10, 2019

Give me an example of a good product and not so good product. This product management (PM) interview question tests whether you understand product design principles. Is your evaluation of products guided by principles of good design? How to structure your answer? Efficiency ?: Sample Answer.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

That's an example of how insidious resource efficiency thinking is. How to Create a New Remote Simulation That Showcases Agile Principles Here's just one alternative that scales for almost any team size. (I I like to ask them to choose a challenging production support problem, or something else that's making them nuts.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Organizations searching for efficiency tend to hire and promote employees who conform to group norms and encourage unity. Evidence suggests that a servant leadership style improves employee productivity and creativity. According to US Department of Labor statistics from 2017, 47% of the workforce in the United States is women.

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2022

What are the most typical risks associated with aerospace engineering projects, and how to manage them effectively? Issues with the supply chain lead to poor quality of products and delays in their releases. Sub-par materials will inevitably affect the quality of the final product making it dangerous for the end users. .

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 26, 2019

As I've written these product role posts, a number of you have asked about how to use component teams. This shows how we need component teams to deliver smallish slices of features. Let's see how to make that work. Each team has the capability to build and test the entire product at all times. If so, fine.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2018

I’ve been thinking about my clients who’ve had success moving from a project-based/resource-efficiency organization to a product-based/flow efficiency organization. This question states the desired outcome and doesn’t tell people how to do it. The products were all larger than one team.).

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Women in Consulting

MAY 1, 2018

By: Pierre Khawand. :: You may have heard of a productivity method called the Pomodoro Technique , developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. This necessitates a new generation of productivity apps that help us practice mindfulness at work. The technique allows a user to choose a task and focus on it for 25-minute intervals.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For years, managers have been trying to find ways to make software product development faster and easier. AI to take the place of humans in product development. But, as an industry, we continue to look for the recipe, the shortcut, the silver bullet, all to decrease the time and cost of product development. (I

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

How do we move from a project-based organization towards a product organization? How the teams work and their team culture. I’ve noticed these challenges in companies who want to move to a more product-oriented approach: The reward system rewards resource efficiency, not flow efficiency.

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Clarity Consultants

AUGUST 24, 2023

From offering an enhanced learning experience to your clients to increasing your firm’s productivity and efficiency, these are a few reasons why you should keep up with the advancing technology within instructional design. Ready to transform your company with instructional design? Contact us today!

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2014

Morieux gives an example of a car manufacturer that threatened to move its production engineers to the after-sales warranty department after a car went into production. The car manufacturer tried to do this by moving its production engineers to the warranty department. Extend the shadow of the future.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 3, 2018

This series is about how you might move to a product-based organization. Part 1 was about how when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. Part 2 was about one possibility for moving to a product-based organization. From Control to Service.

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 29, 2021

Back Mechanic is for your average person who suffers from back pain and wants to learn how they can fix it themselves. In Back Mechanic , he distills the essentials of how to fix your back into a book format. With Back Mechanic, Dr. McGill has taken his expertise and created a product out of it. And it costs $35.

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Epicflow

MAY 4, 2023

Read the article to find out how to cope with the uncertainty in R&D projects and increase the chances of achieving desired outcomes. Research and development projects involve the process of discovering new ideas, technologies, and solutions to create new products (or services) or improve existing ones.

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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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Epicflow

OCTOBER 1, 2022

But it can be ineffective and considerably extend the timeline of product development projects. In the aerospace and defense industry, a lack of resources is one of the industry-specific challenges, so maximum efficient utilization of the existing employees gains even more importance. Utilize resources with maximum efficiency.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

One of the big problems I see with a product orientation (as opposed to a project) is in preparing for ongoing work. You might not start the next project for this product after you complete this project. However, if you want to develop a product orientation, you’ll need to consider the future. We call it technical debt.

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