Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

If you read my scaling agile series , you can see that becoming an agile organization requires seeing your organization as a system with a culture. If you don’t also address the cultural problems of rewards, you won’t continue with your agile transformation. The super-early bird registration ends Mar 1, 2018.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Back at Agile 2018, I had a chance to record a podcast with Bob Payne. The recording is Johanna Rothman – Agile 2018. We discussed my experience report with Mark Kilby, the geographically distributed agile teams book with Mark , and my roadmapping session. I’ve known Bob forever.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Last August, back at the Agile 2018 conference, I had a chance to record a podcast with Howard Sublett. We spoke about Making Roadmaps More Agile. I hope you enjoy Making Roadmaps More Agile. The post Making Roadmaps More Agile appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. We had a blast.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Introduction to an Agile Transformation series… I’ve seen several agile transformation challenges. Since I want to address those challenges, this is a series of posts about agile transformation. The problems I’m planning to address are: Understanding why agile, why now. You might have another reason.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Note especially the brave, innovative management reflected in social enterprises such as the Sampark Foundation , where Vineet Nayar, former CEO of HCL Technologies, is on a mission to inspire kids in rural India to learn how to think and invent like frugal innovators. ” Purpose, moreover, means for him social purpose.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 23, 2020

Agile strategy can transform your organization. When Andy Frawley took on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2018, V12 faced several challenges, including business inefficiencies stemming from a recent merger and inapt product and go-to-market strategies. Agile Strategy.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 23, 2020

important;}”] Agile strategy can transform your organization. When Andy Frawley took on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2018, V12 faced several challenges, including business inefficiencies stemming from a recent merger and inapt product and go-to-market strategies.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2018

I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. Without knowing why you want to use agile approaches throughout the organization, you can’t generate reasonable measurements.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2018

One of my clients has many reasons for wanting an agile transformation. They need agile approaches so they can get feedback from customers as they develop the new products. They need to create a mix of new products and services, which means they need to use an agile approach for their projects and their project portfolio.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 1, 2018

It’s From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver. ” That one chapter might be all you need to create a successful distributed agile team. And, if you’ll be at Agile 2018, we will pair-deliver You Have to Say More There , an experience report. We rearranged the entire book.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 26, 2018

Agile transformations are tough. That’s because wherever you start, the agile transformation creates culture clashes. Often, teams start with agile approaches. Teams discover the agile approach and practices that work for that team. That’s the external part of what we see in an agile transformation.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Agile culture is about the ability to change. You need to know why you want to change, but once you know that, agile cultures promote change.). We (as agile teams and organizations) deliver something to get some feedback and learning. Teams deliver features, Support delivers fixes/workarounds, and managers deliver decisions.).

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

” is one of the questions I see when I work with people going through an agile transformation. Too often, managers measure people as individuals. I like to see the questions reflect the why for your organization’s agile transformation. A simplistic qualitative measure of organizational agility).

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2022

In contrast, Team 2 started “this” project back in 2018, almost four years ago. These are delays due to management decision time.). Manage your environment or culture. Manage Your Environment. I much prefer to start with organizational WIP (Work in Progress), to manage the project portfolio.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2018

I’ve taught and written about agile distributed teams for several years. Now, I’m pair-writing a geographically distributed agile teams book with Mark Kilby. We’ll be talking about our process at Agile 2018 in an experience report. We’ve tweeted a little. We need your help. We need a title.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 2, 2018

What if we thought about agile planning as a way to manage uncertainty? When I look at long roadmaps with all the “must-do” feature sets and the pressure managers put on teams to commit to delivery, I wonder about this question: How well do we understand the problems we want to solve?

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. Build Agility. While it is easy to say these pivots were a result of agility, it is important to differentiate between “brilliant improvisation” and a repeatable capability.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Digital business reached a tipping point in 2018 as organizations scaled their digital capabilities. Ultimately, every organizational function is having to manage the pressure of change in digital transformation, business models, and other areas. Without that clarity, returns from digital initiatives suffer.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

When leaders solicit ideas from others outside the traditionally involved management team, it improves the creativity of the ideas and reinforces that leaders value employees. However, an inclusive approach has some potential drawbacks to address rather than ignore, such as bias, agility, and communication effectiveness. Doolittle, J.

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Harmonious Workplaces

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

While we should guard against generalizing behavior and ignoring individual differences, each generational cohort tends to represent distinctive worldviews, ideals, and conflict management styles, making the workplace the “central theater” for the manifestation of generational identity (Lyons et al, 2019). References Clark, T. Edmondson, A.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Your degree of self-awareness , self-management, motivation, empathy and interpersonal skills make up your emotional intelligence. Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. I experienced the importance of cultural agility early in my career. Build Your Emotional Intelligence. Culture is one of the most potent forces in business.

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The Source

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Growing East : When we crunch all the data for 2018, we expect to find that demand for consulting services has been patchy. Agility: In a skittish market, it pays to think ahead. New service design: We still haven’t found the right phrase to describe the next generation of “managed services” clients tell us they’d like to see.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has said that by 2018 it wants 90 percent of its payments tied to value. Improving access to care, increasing workforce productivity, optimizing clinical operations, and managing population health are important—and interrelated steps.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2018

During Agile 2018, Jerry Weinberg died. How to think about steering instead of controlling in the Quality Software Management series. The post InfoQ Podcast About Remembering Jerry Weinberg appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. Yes, I was quite emotional. I’m human. last week.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 25, 2018

I’m working on my roadmapping talk for Agile 2018. The post Shorter Feedback Loops Help Us Learn Faster appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. I finally had the transforming idea about how to position the talk: Roadmapping and product planning are about feedback loops.

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QEmploy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Ten highest-paying freelance consultant jobs of 2018: Artificial intelligence/ deep learning ($115.06/hour) Move from an established company to an agile company How many meetings have you been attending were the same topics pop up over and over again? “We Gigs are what Fiverr and Upwork freelancers undercut each other for.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 7, 2018

I’m at the Agile 2018 conference this week. Yesterday, I was scheduled to deliver my Agile and Lean Roadmapping talk at 10:45 am. The post Take Advantage of Project Advances appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. Project advances might be rare. However, the room was full 15 minutes in advance.

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Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

— The Crock-Pot® Brand (@CrockPotCares) January 24, 2018. If faced with a similar type of situation tomorrow, do you feel confident that your team would be as agile, proactive, and successful in responding to, and managing the situation? We test our #CROCKPOT rigorously before they hit shelves. Well done, Crock-Pot!

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 20, 2018

VC funding for blockchain start-ups has consistently grown, with venture investment reaching around $1 billion in 2017 (and likely to be more than double that amount in 2018). Teams need to be agile and ready to adapt as new information is received. This phase may require substantial funding as it involves experimentation and testing.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

Gartner recently estimated that through 2018 “80% of IoT implementations will squander transformational opportunities” and fail to monetize IoT data. They Update Their Talent Management Strategies. And a new survey by Cisco found that one-third of all completed IoT projects were not considered a success.

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