Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Effective governance can serve as the bedrock of organizational culture, which shapes perceptions, attitudes, and interactions throughout the organisational hierarchy, between departments, and within project teams. This article aims to shed light on the power of governance and how to create a transformative governance structure.

Government 88

Government Culture Ethics Agile 88

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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Leadership Agile Policies Tools 141

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 15, 2018

Part of what makes an agile transformation difficult is the cultural change required. That’s what makes an agile transformation a journey. A client said to me, “I want the agile. The agile is good stuff: faster delivery of smaller stuff that we can get revenue for. Cultural change rarely occurs fast.

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Agile Culture System Fashion 59

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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Agile Productivity Culture Management 69

Johanna Rothman

JUNE 3, 2019

At the Influential Agile Leader workshop earlier this year, I led a session about scaling and how you might think about it. Notice that management defined this one solution to the problem as opposed to considering the entire system. I asked if any of the teams succeeded at using an agile approach at the team level.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

I had a great time on the Agile Coffee podcast, 75. We spoke about a variety of issues that managers, teams, and people encounter, such as: Culture and how that plays out at all levels. How the reward system might offer perverse incentives. Managing with Coffee. We had a great time and a wide-ranging conversation.

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Agile Management Culture System 66

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? If you read these books, you could understand project-based agility. However, many people wanted “the recipe” for agility.

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Agile Software Productivity Culture 66

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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Agile Culture Efficiency Guidelines 65

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. (I I didn't like what I saw at the Agile 2019 conference.) This part is about what “Agile” or “agile” means. I understand that people want what they perceive as the value “Agile” will bring them. Why a Manifesto?

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Agile Software Construction Productivity 66

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 15, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. This part is about how people want a recipe, The Answer, for how to get better at “Agile.” ” Before we can address what an answer might be, your need to know your why for an agile approach. Can “Agile” deliver on that?

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Agile Software Efficiency Construction 67

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2019

Most of my clients struggle with their agile transformation. The teams love agile approaches because they can work on their release frequency and technical excellence. The senior managers love the agile promise because they can see how agile approaches help the teams release a more constant flow of value.

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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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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

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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. They “measure” the culture. When you transform your measurements, you can transform your system and culture.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 17, 2017

Of these, it makes sense to change the compensation and rewards approach, recruitment and hiring if the organization wants to create an agile culture. It’s possible to create a more agile approach to education and training. If we think about agile approaches as a way to: Create small, safe-to-fail experiments.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. That’s one way that our words reflect our culture.). Except, in an agile approach, product management (often via product owners) is an integral part of a high-performing agile team. Can they create an agile transformation?

Productivity 74

Productivity Agile Culture Efficiency 74

Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

” is one of the questions I see when I work with people going through an agile transformation. This measurement question can be the prompt that changes your culture and your system. I like to see the questions reflect the why for your organization’s agile transformation. “What should I measure???”

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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. Agile approaches can help teams improve, and many teams do release value faster. The teams focus on their work.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve—and the team—needed to see their system. Visualize the Team's System. One of the most important ways is to see the team's system. Measurements Helped Everyone See the System. However, he only created happy-path functional tests to see how his code worked with the rest of the system.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Our culture shapes our language. And, our language shapes our culture.) We reinforce a culture of resource efficiency. Sometimes, we reinforce a project culture where teams break up after they’re done with the project.). We reinforce a culture of flow efficiency. More often, they mean team member.

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Efficiency Culture Agile Productivity 84

Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2018

Are you looking to help support your team, management, or organization’s agile adoption? Do you feel as if you are part of the formal or informal team leading your agile transformation? You need what Gil Broza and I teach and facilitate at the Influential Agile Leader Workshop. Agile Transformation is a Journey, Part 6.

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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

MARCH 8, 2022

Integrated System Program. In this first image, the Integrated System Program, the rest of the product uses the Platform of Common Services as components. In Agile and Lean Program Management , I suggested two other views of large products. See Create Feedback Loops (Agile Approaches) for Hardware Products.).

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 28, 2019

You have an agile roadmap to see where you're headed. Your team hates having to translate the agile planning into more traditional planning. If you're in this pickle, your manager might think your agile team doesn't replan very often. That manager might assume your team uses an agile approach only as a way to deliver.

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Data Agile Culture Management 68

Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

Finding valuable insights: Structured and unstructured data sources can uncover patterns and relationships that reveal customer needs, expose system vulnerabilities and improve productivity and performance. Conducting research for the School of Information Systems, she is invested in obtaining a career that advances information technologies.

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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. However, not all management training programs are created equal.

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LSA Global

JULY 14, 2020

Agile Change Management – What Is It? Agile change management is an approach to managing the people side of change that works in concert with the agile project management methodology. Done right, the agile approach to project management enables teams to adapt to change quickly and deliver work faster.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 2, 2021

” When Susan, the agile project manager, started the next day, she took a picture of the paper. The build system takes too long. This organization wanted what agile approaches offered. Team 2's organization still struggles with its agile culture changes. Here's how the scale looks in practice.

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Trends Agile Data Management 75

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

In my experience, if you don't offer people autonomy for their work, they will game the system. 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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Epicflow

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Engineering projects deal with the design, development, and implementation of processes or technologies; they can be executed in civil, mechanical, software, or electric engineering: e.g., designing buildings, creating new devices, implementing manufacturing automation systems, etc. Agile methodology.

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Engineering Management Methodologies Resources 95

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 18, 2023

However, larger businesses often face challenges that hinder the efficacy and efficiency of their governance systems, impeding their ability to adapt, innovate, and thrive. To overcome inertia, businesses should foster a culture of innovation by creating space for employees to challenge the status quo and propose new ideas.

Government 78

Government Agile Data Culture 78

Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A potential client wanted to engage many coaches with “deep” agile and lean experience. Each team was supposed to use a “standard” agile approach. However, this Dan and the rest of the HR department had no idea what agile and lean could look like for any department. The client wanted published authors.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

For example, how we work, the healthcare systems, different ways of commuting and communicating, our social interactions, and the education system. An individual who invests in their skills not only acquires a wealth of new knowledge, but also gains more ability to be agile and adapt to the changing business environment.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

But Weber also warned that, unfettered, bureaucracy could create a soulless “iron cage,” trapping people inside dehumanizing systems and limiting their potential. I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late.

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Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 15, 2020

The office of information technology that serves agencies across a state government system set a goal of becoming a high-performing and customer-centric service provider. The solutions were tailored to incorporate Agile principles, methods, and tools. CASE STUDY.

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Information Technology Information Technology Case Study Case Studies 52

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Part 1 was about how when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. Managers remove systemic impediments. Managers help people build their interpersonal skills, those deep skills that create psychological safety and a culture where people want to work.

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