Epicflow

JUNE 8, 2022

Agile has become the most popular methodology in recent years and has proven its efficiency for millions of companies already so nobody has any doubts about it today. The most popular and widely used Agile methodology is Scrum. Read further to learn the details. The Role of Sprints in Project Management .

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2024

I started this series by discussing why managers didn't perceive the value of agile coaches and Scrum Masters in Part 1, resulting in layoffs.) That's why I then asked people to review their product-oriented domain expertise and agile-focused domain expertise in Part 3. Especially, Agile is Not a Silver Bullet.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Ron Jeffries, Matt Barcomb, and several other people wrote an interesting thread about prescriptive and non-prescriptive approaches to team-based agile. If you don’t want to read the entire thread, here is a summary: People often need help with their agile approach. That’s why we have the agile values and principles.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 9, 2022

Resource Efficiency. ” “Each resource has at least two projects so they stay productive and efficient.” ” These managers have created a resource efficiency culture, not a flow efficiency culture, as in the image above. .” Resource efficiency means we watch each person's effort.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. Related Video.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The original signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development wanted to solve these specific problems: How can we: Bring more adaptability to software development? Before the Manifesto, we had plenty of books and articles that discussed more lightweight approaches. That's just books. The Context for the Manifesto.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 9, 2021

I said that when we focus on individual achievements and deliverables, we ignore the agile system of work. Worse, when we reward individual achievements we prevent an agile culture. That's because agile teams learn together as they create the product. Agile Behaviors for Learning and Working Together.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Years ago, Roy Osherove interviewed me about project management, agile thinking, hiring, and management. See Johanna Rothman Interview – Agile, a Decade Later. We focused much more on agile issues in this interview. Some links to some of my thinking on: “Scaling” agile. Flow efficiency.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

I started asking if you actually need an agile approach in Part 1 and noted the 4 big problems I see. Part 2 was why we need managers in an agile transformation. Part 4 was about how “Agile” is meaningless and “agile” is an adjective that needs to be applied to something. That would be resilient.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 13, 2021

I had great fun with Cherie Silas and Alex Kudinov on their podcast, “Keeping Agile Non-Denominational.” You've seen or heard about this problem: Senior leadership says, “Yes we need agility!” ” The teams say, “Yes, we got the agile goodness here!” ” And the middle managers?

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 4, 2024

And given the plethora of “agile” coaches, too many managers have relinquished their coaching roles to these (supposed) agilists. What if it's most efficient to do the work for a person or a team? Reducing management delays and increasing management throughput allows everyone to be efficient and effective.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 21, 2022

So, automakers have to change their approaches to product development to make it shorter but no less efficient. . Nevertheless, automotive companies need to deliver their projects as successfully and efficiently as possible. Utilize available resources with maximum efficiency. Adopt Agile frameworks for product development.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

I discussed the origins of the agile approaches in Part 5. In this post, I'll discuss how you can create an agile approach that fits your context. Why should you create your own agile approach? You deserve an agile approach that helps you achieve the business outcomes you need. What do you need? Start with the Team.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

A couple of weeks ago, I delivered the first version of my Free Your Agile Team talk at Agile New England. I spoke about the problem of a framework-first approach to transforming to an agile culture. I based the talk on Create Your Successful Agile Project , but I didn’t stop there.). (I Yes, there are 8 parts!).

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. As the teams used agile approaches, they requested more and more frequent deployments. A lot of the friction we see is anti-agility. It's time to start removing some of those policies and procedures.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 21, 2021

See Agile FM – Johanna Rothman. We spoke about a number of ideas from the Modern Management Made Easy books: How to recognize and avoid micromanagement. I had a terrific time with Joe Krebs on his podcast. What it might mean to engage people at work. The kinds of workspaces we need. Psychological safety. One-on-ones.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

.” In my experience, when organizations want to use agile approaches or transform in some way, the managers start with the teams. Agile approaches can help teams improve, and many teams do release value faster. I always estimate how long my books take. I'm still experimenting with my book writing to make it faster.).

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 8, 2018

I had a great time recording with two of the guys from the Agile Uprising Podcast. See Create Your Successful Agile Project with Johanna Rothman. We discussed the book. I had an opportunity to rant and rave about many things: agile project managers (no, the term is not an oxymoron). I had a great time with Jay and James.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

You don't want to reinforce resource efficiency, even though you rewarded the person for that all along. Instead, you want to reinforce flow efficiency. Discuss why you want flow efficiency and overall lower cycle time. You now realize that if you want an agile culture, you want the team to collaborate.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2014

The book provides six principles that the author’s believe can make organisations more agile, competitive, and responsive by helping employees become more autonomous, cooperative and empowered. Here is a super summary of the six principles (some are more illuminating than others): Understand what other people do.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Successful project delivery is usually a result of efficient management of both workflow and resources. What do you need to know to manage project resources with maximum efficiency? What do you need to know to manage project resources with maximum efficiency? The results of efficient resource management are as follows: .

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

I'm rewriting/reorganizing the Lead an Innovative Organization book. Flow efficiency at all levels. Let me address a little about business agility and innovation. Business agility allows us to create a culture where we plan to change. Deciding what not to do is often more effective than trying to be efficient.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2021

I like agile approaches because I can separate lots of deliverables into small, coherent pieces. When I want to deliver books, I need a team to create a final delivery. See the Flow Efficiency series.). In fact, agile approaches make this kind of culture possible. Focus on job satisfaction. Increase self-esteem.

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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. See the Wikipedia article.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 23, 2022

Up until now, HR wanted to reward an individual's contribution, thinking in terms of resource efficiency. Even if you're not part of an agile team, highly collaborative teams have trouble identifying who contributed what. Yes, it’s about the ideas in the Modern Management books, but you’ll recognize many of the ideas.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

A total of about 1500 words on the book plus one image. The book distributor work is complete. However, if people collaborate with pairing, swarming, or mobbing, they work in flow efficiency. If you want to “scale” your agility, ask yourself these questions: How can we collaborate at all levels?

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 7, 2023

If you're trying to use an agile approach, what do you care about in terms of finishing: That the team finish the work, regardless of the personal or team cost? Agile teams always know who did what. I updated this in the book.) In agile organizations, peers offer this feedback, not (just) the managers.

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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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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

This is one of the reasons Mark and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Your team might not need an agile approach. Mark and I listed these tools for the team's workspace in the book: The code repository. Now, as I write this series, the coronavirus is winging its way around the globe. The test repository.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 16, 2017

See Building a Team With Feedback and Create Your Successful Agile Project ). Hiring based on low salary vs resource efficiency and flow efficiency. Open book management, especially with regard to salaries. I wrote about some of this in Agile HR, Part 5: Performance Management, the Career Ladder.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

It’s wide-ranging from thinking about agile approaches as a way to improve organizational flow and what that means for us as humans. We had a wide-ranging discussion, about my fiction writing, my books, how agile approaches affect the organization and how people can think differently when the teams and managers use agile approaches.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I took an opportunity to write a new book this year, Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer. That book satisfied one of my business goals: to write more useful books. That book was on my options list, but I had not planned to write that book this year. I'm now able to finish the consulting book.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Here's an example from the project portfolio book. See the image about problem determinism in What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? However, they worked inside a system that valued resource efficiency. Yes, the essence of agility.) The costs of the work often have little relation to the value of that work.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

How could we organize if we want flow efficiency? Even before I knew about agile approaches, I spent a bunch of time creating unit tests and system tests so I could know that as I fixed/added/replaced code, I hadn’t introduced any problems. If you’re wondering, this is how I write books. Thinking about Refactoring.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

I have a paper book from 1989.). The idea of resource efficiency instead of flow efficiency pervades management, too. The more transparency the managers have with each other and their bosses, the more likely the senior leadership team will start to realize that managers need to collaborate, to work in flow efficiency.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

If you use these delegation ideas, you will find you have time to have one-on-ones every week or two, depending on how agile your team is. Most of the problem is that organizations reward resource efficiency, not flow efficiency —even for managers. You will also have time to think. Facilitate Other People's Learning.

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