Johanna Rothman

APRIL 22, 2025

Your managers want to measure all kinds of interesting pieces of data to run the company well. It turns out that the Pirate Metrics and the flow metrics can work together to link those measures. First, the Pirate Metrics. Depreciation is the ability to “write off” expenses because the company now has an asset.)

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? For nearly two decades, many companies have utilized the principles within the Agile Manifesto to deliver faster time-to-market than traditional, or linear development models. Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These tools offer features for tracking performance metrics, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. By providing real-time insights and streamlining complex workflows, project portfolio management tools empower organizations to handle diverse initiatives with precision and agility.

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2024

In addition, their focus on effective resource allocation, stakeholder engagement, and change management contributes to enhanced operational efficiency, increased agility, and improved project outcomes. Also, a CPO makes sure that a company is capable of applying diverse PM methodologies and executing a variety of projects.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2024

Every day, I hear more stories of agile coaches or Scrum Masters losing their jobs. Several reasons: No manager cares about “agile” even if they care about agility. So, selling “agile” into the organization doesn’t create any traction for change. You might not like these ideas.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

And even if you can find an agile coaching or Scrum Master job, the pay is so terrible, you don’t want to take it. That’s because these managers think agile coaching and Scrum Mastering is a staff job, not a line job. And if your company is a startup looking for funding? Or, one Scrum Master from another.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

For the growing companies, it’s crucially important to keep track of all their products and make sure they are in demand and meet customers’ needs. A product portfolio is a set of all products and services that a company creates and offers to customers. In other words, it’s indicative of the company’s growth.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

Many companies go to great lengths every year or two to determine just how motivated their work force really is. More recently, online sites such as Glassdoor and Vault let HR managers view anonymized praises and complaints about their company from employees and former employees – comments the whole world can see. Insight Center.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Removing those support staff was one indication the companies fell into the Economies of Scale trap. See Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility and Unearthing Your Project's Delays.) Ignorance of the flow metrics. Luckily, the flow metrics help everyone see where the teams have value and where there is just cost.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 9, 2018

Ryan Ripley interviewed me on his podcast, Agile for Humans 83 about Create Your Successful Agile Project. I didn’t stint on my opinions or on my experience with agile teams. I don’t find it useful in an agile project unless you use incremental funding. We had a blast. That’s me.

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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. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 16, 2019

I suggested ways to think about more agile budgeting in part 1. That's because I manage my company in a similar way as your managers manage your organization. Also, see From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Use the data you need to have a more agile approach. I didn't tell you why. I always evaluate monthly.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics. High-performing teams spend 14% more time checking their progress against strategic goals by reviewing key metrics and shifting resources accordingly.

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Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

How a private equity-backed artisanal food manufacturer stemmed losses, rebuilt the leadership team, and positioned the company for growth. The SBF captures the organization’s key stakeholders, objectives, over-arching strategies, long-term strategies, short-term initiatives, and metrics to track performance.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

Forecasting and decision-making Thanks to predictive analytics, PM tools analyze historical data along with current project metrics to predict how the project environment will change. Let’s now review the most common applications of the technology in more detail. notify a project manager of potential risks or upcoming bottlenecks, and more.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

At a time when digital technology is transforming one industry after another, large companies tend to view innovation and disruption as the result of breakthrough discoveries or technological wonders. For years elevator companies have been using electronics to coordinate banks of elevators and make the wait times as short as possible.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one multinational consumer goods company organized by category, while another organizes by region? Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? How do banks switch customer relationships from branch offices to mobile phone screens?

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 9, 2020

In the agile and lean communities, we talk a lot about transparency. This image is the transparency principle we used in From Chaos to Distributed Agile Teams. And, a much more agile organization. What do agile managers do? That includes any interim measures, including cycle time metrics. People Solve Problems.

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Management Agile Balance Sheet Metrics 81

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Creativity in marketing requires working with customers right from the start to weave their experiences with your efforts to expand your company’s reach. The metrics also changed. For Equinix, surveys revealed that a third of employees were not confident explaining its company story. The results?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Reeling from the growing pains of a $475 million merger with Nortel, the business communications company faced lingering customer disillusionment and falling profits. Most big companies are happy to bump their score up by just a few points in that amount of time. It takes a major cultural shift in the company.

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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. This is especially true in developing markets where competitors can move very quickly with few of the obstacles that big companies face. Many companies have a mix of global, regional, and local brands.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

Companies are now thinking about what it takes to work from home. 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. This includes the team's board and the team's metrics. The place to see the roadmaps for the longer term.

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Epicflow

APRIL 30, 2025

Strategic portfolio management is the process of selecting, prioritizing, and managing a companys projects, portfolios, programs, or products. Visibility into the entire project portfolio : Seeing a big picture of all programs and portfolios executed in a company is crucial for effective SPM. need to be improved.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Those companies, along with Amazon, Apple, and Google, seek to colonize every corner of the IME space. Companies in broadcast, music, and entertainment will merge to become entertainment experience providers, delivering through their own environments (such as HBO GO) as well as via third parties such as Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube.

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Media Metrics Education Insurance 84

Makarios Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We don’t need to track metrics to succeed as a business.” But we have worked with many leadership teams that acknowledged, “We don’t know what metrics to track to get meaningful insights so that we can make strategic, timely business decisions.” Put simply, data visibility enables business agility. Sales metrics.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

But since Tom’s boss was under pressure to meet a number of website metrics, she didn’t have the flexibility to implement his ideas. It’s not often possible to ignore performance metrics or overcome policies and bureaucratic red-tape. .” At first, Tom wasn’t deterred. And it doesn’t take much.

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Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It is agile and uses strategic thinking to align on a common vision, objectives, strategic imperatives, long-term strategies, short-term initiatives, and the metrics needed to drive and track performance. Let’s take the example of a new leader at a global manufacturing company. Our process drives results.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

Especially if you want to use agile approaches. See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter.) They want to know if the work is something they want to do, and if the company culture is a good fit for them. Instead of lots of tests or supposed auditions, you can use the phone screen to learn what the company values.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

McKinsey & Company discovered that data-driven firms are 23 times more likely to acquire customers , six times more likely to retain them, and 19 times more likely to be profitable than their counterparts without a data-driven culture. While intuition and gut feelings are useful, decision-making should be based on data and analysis.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

Automation is helping a handful of companies accomplish what was once thought impossible: boosting financial performance while also aiding fast corporate transformation work. The company found that using robotic process automation alone could free up to 75 full-time equivalent staff. Shift 1: Automate with a product mindset.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

It has put customers, not companies, in charge. This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment. Agile organizations are connected organizations. Image courtesy of Korn Ferry. Discipline and Focus.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 24, 2020

Diversity in companies is an organization design issue and it needs to be addressed as such. Organization capabilities are organization muscle, built through a combination of structure, process, metrics and rewards, and people practices. Metrics and Rewards. Too Little. The STAR Model. Capabilities.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 22, 2020

Diversity in companies is an organization design issue and it needs to be addressed as such. Organization capabilities are organization muscle, built through a combination of structure, process, metrics and rewards, and people practices. Metrics and Rewards. Too Little. The STAR Model. Capabilities.

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Talent Metrics Accenture Development 65

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Learning from Big Companies. We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. He wanted to challenge his team, as part of the strategic talent review process, to think about whether or not the company’s organizational architecture was suited to its growth plan to double in size.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 22, 2018

Meta-analytic studies reviewing 50 years of research suggest that personality traits such as curiosity, extraversion, and emotional stability are twice as important as IQ — the benchmark metric for reasoning capability — when it comes to predicting leadership effectiveness. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI.

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Leadership Agile Emotional Intelligence Benchmarking 71