Steve Shu Consulting

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Based on this question, my gut reaction is that they are looking for a sense of a) how deep do you go with similar clients in similar situations, and b) what’s the outside norm in terms of project length for a similar clients in similar situations. Key things to be aware of though are what is the client thinking and what you are thinking.

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Successful Independent Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Second, when knee-deep in actually doing "the real work," solopreneurs are hard-pressed to find time to publish thought-leadership articles or create and manage marketing campaigns. Third, although they have the confidence to be self-employed, many solopreneurs just aren't comfortable selling themselves or doing any sort of self-promotion.

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Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Consequently, I’m frequently asked to help people think through the decision of whether or not “go independent”. Here are ten things to think about before taking the leap to become an independent consultant or solopreneur. Do you have a safety net? See the point above about erratic cash flow!)

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

As part of their filtering process, potential clients/hiring managers want to see how you work. While managers think they will get useful results, too often, they don't. And because the hiring manager is only thinking of their time, they don't consider offering you any compensation for your time. That's fine.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 9, 2024

See (and hear!): Some of what we discussed: That managers want agility but do not care about any agile methods or frameworks. While we might think “agile” is another project organization method—or lifecycle—it's not. See Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 10, 2024

I see many teams and team members who say, “Agile stinks. ” When I ask people what's happening, they say: We're doing an agile death march because someone else already told us what we have to do and the date it's due. And don't get me started on how coaches tend to do life coaching instead of support for agility.)

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

That’s because potential employers think these jobs are staff positions. Your previous managers and potential managers don’t see the value of someone in your position. That’s because these managers think agile coaching and Scrum Mastering is a staff job, not a line job. Those are functional skills.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I think of spreadsheets as an unintentional, but prime example of this. “Agile” as a way to do much more work in much less time. (NO! I'm a huge fan of tools that help me do my job. And the more a team collaborates (see Measure Cycle Time, Not Velocity ), the faster the team can proceed.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

.” Metaphors do help us make sense of the world and of our role in that world. I'm discussing why these metaphors no longer make sense—even if we think they once did. Let me start with how we describe human beings at work, the people who do the work. ” “I do,” I said. See People are NOT FTEs.)

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

When I say that to my clients, some of them tell me they do find use in Gantt charts. In addition, they can see the various interdependencies across the work. How is it possible these people have such different experiences than I do? Those are the kinds of products that do not require much, if any, innovation.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 24, 2023

They think all writers need to start with “shitty first drafts.” Instead of creating a terrible draft or thinking you're a terrible writer, you can keep your writing clean as you go. And when you do, you might think and learn faster. I certainly do not! I hope to see you there.

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Rick Conlow

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You cannot be effective as a coach if you do not put people first. Do you want to accelerate your career and inspire your team? Review this mini-training to elevate your thinking and results. It will begin to advance your thinking as a leader. See these resources: Servant Leaders Achieve Extraordinary Results.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2022

I often see component teams because of the architecture of the product. Also, the teams find it tempting to think of the common GUI and API as components. However, neither of those images show how I often see data. However, from the program perspective, this is what I see. What can you do? That's great.

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Rick Conlow

JULY 28, 2021

These positive thinking quotes can help you change your life for the better. Read these positive thinking quotes and remind yourself of your unlimited potential to reach your goals and to live the success you desire. 10 Potent Positive Thinking Quotes. 10 Potent Positive Thinking Quotes. “What we think, we become.”

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 30, 2023

See Which Assumptions Do You Bring to What You Read? (& When I see an interesting problem, I almost always need to say, “It depends…” and then delve into a deeper discussion. Most problems need critical thinking skills because what works for one client does not work for another.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Several of my trusted advisor clients have asked this question, “Why do I need to choose between effectiveness and efficiency? Start With Managers to Reduce Decision Delay Time If you have not yet read Why Minimize Management Decision Time , please do. Efficiency is when we can do that work “faster.”

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

” That's where people emulate a Scrum approach, complete with asking the team to do “more.” See the Satir Change Model description in Where Are You in Your Changes? They say, “I don't do anything similar to passing balls. Why do I have to play a game?” I do not ask them to do anything else.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

And, if you ever wrote code, do these problems look familiar? That's what effective nonfiction writers do, too. As we write, we learn what we think. We then integrate that learning and thinking into the next bit of writing time. If you do, excellent. How I lntegrate Writing, Thinking, and Learning.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2021

She and her fellow directors, met with Charlie, the CIO to discuss the portfolio and what they could do. We're focused so much on efficiency, that we haven't decided what not to do. At a first cut, I think we can cull the number of projects from 100 to 20.” Which projects do you want us to do?”

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2024

Then, in Part 2 , I asked those unemployed agilists to review their functional skills, the skills people need to do a product development job well. Especially because I see “Agile” as in the “trough of disillusionment” in the Hype Cycle. And use the flow metrics so you can see progress. Limit your WIP.

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Halo Psych

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Despite outstanding academic and professional accomplishments, women who experience the impostor phenomenon persist in believing that they are really not bright and have fooled anyone who thinks otherwise.” The belief that anyone can do what you do. Thinking you’re going to fail at something before you’ve even tried.

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Seth Godin Blog

MAY 4, 2024

It might be more useful to think of our most important work as customer relationship leadership. The new price-fixing scandal in the oil business helps us see what happens when industry leadership spends most of its creative time thinking about doing things to customers. CRL is voluntary.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

However, I don't do long consulting contracts—by design. I do offer longer-term advisory services , starting at a quarter in duration and extending up to a year. Then, when the client is ready, we can do the next thing. However, managers don't create features as agile teams do. That's exactly what managers can do.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

That part discusses why managers see agile coaches and Scrum Masters as staff positions, not line jobs. Everyone just sees their part, not the entire product. If your team has a customer, you're doing some form of product development. Assess Your Subject Matter Domain Expertise What do you know about agility in general?

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For example, I'm doing a webinar on November 30 where the value is primarily promotion for my new book. See Project Lifecycle Workshop: How to Manage Project Risks to Release Successful Products.) When I think about what makes me want to work with others, I start with how much trust I feel for the other person/organization.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 8, 2023

I think of each iteration as a prototype , not a draft. But because I think of my writing as a prototype, I need to clarify as I go, so I can have a coherent piece at the end. I didn't allow for thinking and learning as I write. See Writing Secret 4: Effective Nonfiction Writers Cycle Between Writing, Thinking, & Learning.)

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

During that workshop, the participants all had the same question, “How do we engage our stakeholders?” See Customers, Internal Delivery, And Trust for a recent post about demos and trust.) See TBM 8/52: The Problem With “Internal Customers ”. How do we create partnerships? See you then.”

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Simon Associates

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The gap between what we say and what we do. The gap is something that comes from our brains moving far faster thinking than our voices can communicate those thoughts. You might want to take a look at Byron Reese’s new book, Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future—and Shape It.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 30, 2022

I see this with some new Ivy League graduates. I see this with some new first year consultants. The consequences don’t occur immediately, but they do start accumulating. In addition, when you succeed, the tendency is to think you’re somehow better than everyone else. Think about it. You’re not.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 28, 2023

What do I do?” How often do the teams release?” See Create Successful Schedules: Three Tips to Rolling Wave Planning and the series that starts with Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 1, Think in Feature Sets. See Three Planning Ideas to Support Your Future Decisions.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 22, 2023

Her ideal readers are the teams doing the work, so they can change their demos and reporting frequency. The other leaders and I will contact each team to see how we can make data collection easier. However, we all need to see weekly demos according to the attached format. Her culture says everyone gets to see everything.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 23, 2021

How often do people become contended where they are at or with what they are doing? Do you want more success in your job or life? If you do, read on. Far too many people look at the world with fear and see disaster and turmoil. They think it’s natural to think negatively; it is the way of the world.

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Rick Conlow

DECEMBER 27, 2022

We think we want to avoid all things associated with fear. One sage declard, “ Do the thing you fear and the death of it is certain.” We have an inaccurate idea of what it means to conquer our fears – I think it really comes down to just moving out of our comfort zone. Fear has a negative connotation with it.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 21, 2021

When I think about agile approaches to work, I think about how fast we can change and the cost of those changes. Multiple deliverables allow us to change what we do and what we plan next. See the lifecycle series for more information.). Those teams also change what they do on a frequent basis.

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The Management Centre

MAY 8, 2023

I want my team to feel motivated in their roles – what can I do? It’s generally agreed that motivation is a good thing – and a topic all managers think about at some point. They have the energy and commitment not only to do what is needed today, but also to welcome what might be needed tomorrow. So how do you motivate others?

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 20, 2021

However, I don't see too many self-organizing or empowered teams at my clients. Everyone does the best job they know how to do. Instead of talking about empowerment, let's discuss how we trust teams and people to do their best job. In our experience, too few teams can do any of that (regardless of their location).

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 10, 2023

But I think it's going to remove all those busy-work jobs , not the jobs where we, as humans, offer value. Do you then add some kind of value to that analysis? Do you then add some kind of value to that analysis? If AI can analyze in the same way that you do, your job will not survive AI—unless you add some kind of value.

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