Johanna Rothman

JULY 20, 2021

We talk a lot about empowered or self-organizing teams in the agile community. When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , we said the easiest way to create a system that worked for the team was for the team to create its own board. Agile Approaches Require Management Cultural Change.

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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. But I’ve consulted for a long time. Worse, many staff jobs are commodity positions.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

And, they want metrics. I wrote a series about that, starting with Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics, Part 1.). The post A Common Tool Trap: the Tool Will Help Your Delivery and Planning Problems appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. That's never worked. We will see.

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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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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. Insight center.

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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. This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility. Assess Your Product Subject Matter Domain Expertise There are at least two kinds of domain expertise: the product itself, and agile/lean expertise.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 16, 2019

I suggested ways to think about more agile budgeting in part 1. Also, see From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. You can use incremental funding, incremental budgeting, and lean metrics to manage the project portfolio and adapt. Use the data you need to have a more agile approach. I didn't tell you why.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

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. Here are the four flow metrics: WIP: the current number of work items in progress.

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Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

To further scale the company and increase performance and profitability, the private equity firm identified the need to address operational inefficiencies, optimize the organizational structure, and develop a high-performing and agile leadership team. Two senior team members were onboarded. Let's talk CONTACT BRIMSTONE.

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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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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

Are you looking for work, either as a consultant or a candidate? And candidates and consultants invest time that has no perceived payoff for them. I agree—hiring managers do need to assess a candidate's or consultant's skills. (I So what can a candidate or consultant do to show their skills without working for free?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( See Agile Program Measurements to Visualize and Track Progress and Measure Cycle Time for my suggestions of what to measure. I have more ideas and a more in-depth discussion in Create Your Successful Agile Project.).

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 24, 2024

The agile project manager asks, “What percentage confidence are you comfortable with for a given item? Yes, I said this in Predicting the Unpredictable and Create Your Successful Agile Projec t.) If you're not sure about cycle time, read Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

No one cares about a team's agility—with the possible exception of the team itself. The managers care when the team can release those products—that's why managers use capitalization metrics. The more agile the approach, the faster the team can deliver value to the customers—without late learning.

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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

Take Tom, a website developer whom I met on a consulting assignment at an accounting firm. 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. ” At first, Tom wasn’t deterred. But it’s not just that play “feels good.”

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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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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

As a consultant, she’s led hundreds of workshops, delivered talks and keynotes around the world, and dipped her toes into Pecha Kuchas. As for certifications, as I write this in 2019, the agile community has too many framework battles. Along the way, she's learned about vanity metrics and metrics that work.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Ever since I was on the Troubleshooting Agile podcast , I've followed Squirrel and Jeffrey. (I Instead, they create hypotheses, review all their flow metrics, and change several things at the same time. The post Progress Instead of Perfection With a Single Source of Lies appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

By Ashish Chawla, Global Head, Cognizant Contentworks; Shubham Choudhury, Senior Manager and Consulting Lead, Cognizant Contentworks. However, many are not equipped to confront the legion of new, more agile competitors—and run the danger of becoming the losers in that war. Tomorrow’s IME Landscape. Delivery personalization.

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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. The post Accelerate results in your first 90 days appeared first on Brimstone Consulting LLC. Our process drives results.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 18, 2024

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for why this happens.) I discussed this a little in Aging Fun with Drunk Agile (Video) and in How to Assess the Value of Old Data and Its Effect on Aging.) That's why aging is a part of the flow metrics feedback loop on the top of this post.

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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. This includes the team's board and the team's metrics. I wrote Lessons Learned from Leading Workshops about Geographically Distributed Agile Teams with Shane Hastie back in 2013.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 17, 2020

We have been working with leaders to achieve accelerated results and (re)build a stronger, more agile organization, by taking their team through the Senior Team Alignment Process (STAP). The process is agile, fast, flexible, and time competitive. Ownership ensures accountability and execution.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 3, 2018

I delivered a webinar called Agile Metrics for Team and Product Progress last week, thanks to the nice folks at Innovation Roots. One person gave me a new saying about metrics (at the end, during the Q&A): Are you data-driven or data-informed? If we use agile approaches, does that mean we never have a target?

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. To make tracking progress effective, it's important to set SMART goals with specific metrics and targets that can be accurately tracked in software.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

See What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Finally, they moved to an incremental lifecycle and then to an iterative and incremental but not agile lifecycle. Almost all of these clients think they are using an agile approach. But while they use the agile words, they still work as if they are in a serial lifecycle.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 4, 2024

In my experience, effective managers act a lot more like effective consultants when they choose which role to use at the time. And given the plethora of “agile” coaches, too many managers have relinquished their coaching roles to these (supposed) agilists. Which role fits this situation? I feel another blog post coming on.)

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2023

In preparation for a recent consulting engagement, the client, Tim, said, “I want you to track meeting attendance. Easy Measures vs. Outcome-Based Measures People only call consultants when they want to change something. Consultants can ask, “What outcomes do you want to see?” Measuring the outcomes we need?

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The Source

APRIL 8, 2022

They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but that didn’t seem to be the case for consultants in the depths of the COVID pandemic. Now, clients are more positive than ever—on average, 81% of clients describe firms in positive terms on the same metrics.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We want more collaboration and smaller stories in any agile approach. In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I recommend against velocity or using story points. The post Measure Cycle Time, Not Velocity appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. Use Cycle Time to Estimate Story Duration.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. As consultants we see this pendulum swing all too often. What is “center-led”. An Example.

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Ben de Haldevang

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Abhay Pande, David Boyd, Paul Siegenthaler and I from The Agile Gorilla collective are joined by David Cox, a business transformation professional with a passion for Customer Experience. For over 15 years, David Cox has worked around Europe, South America and the Middle East helping clients drive revenue growth and customer loyalty.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

That's why I wrote Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. ) Yes, Little's Law and the flow metrics rule our work. That will reduce WIP, increase throughput, and decrease cycle time all the good things about flow metrics. That creates dependencies and multitasking.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Key themes include: Business Model Transformation: Legacy consulting models are evolving to accommodate the digital world’s diverse needs. Digital Agility: Technology enables greater adaptability in response to changing conditions, helping firms accelerate digital transformation and optimize various aspects of their operations.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The most common chief executive exaltation we hear is “We must be more innovative, agile, and adaptable.” We were struck by the dissonance with the ambition — if you want to be more innovative and agile and anything could happen, isn’t that a truly brilliant notion?

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LSA Global

MARCH 3, 2025

Are able to better track and assess shared performance metrics tied to overall business strategies. Enhancing Organizational Agility We know from change management consulting experts that organizational agility is a crucial determinant of success. Foster an environment where employees can collaborate, thrive, and grow.

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