Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2021

So when does it make sense to customize your agile approach to gain a strategic advantage? They want an agile approach, so they started with Scrum. We don't think we need to be “religious” about our agile approach as long as we get the benefit. Then, they Built their agile approach based on their needs.

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Agile Tools Productivity Development 105

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 26, 2021

They think agile approaches are tactics and agile tools are part of their strategy. That's why they want to Buy an agile approach. And that's why they want to Customize and then standardize on tools. However, if there is a Buy alternative for commonly-used tools, I would move to that as early as possible.

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In this article, well explore why works, how to use it effectively, and tools to bring it to life in your eLearning initiatives. When instructional design consulting professionals align stories with organizational goals, they foster a learning culture that promotes innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

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Training Training Case Study Case Studies 130

Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Many of these people want to use a tool to plan from the “bottom” (what the teams do) to the top (roadmaps and portfolio). Worse, they want to start with a tool. See Schedule Game #11: The Schedule Tool is Always Right as an example.). They think the tool will do “everything” for them.

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Tools Agile Metrics Data 110

Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Moreover, a strong L&D program enriches company culture by fostering a growth mindset and encouraging innovation. Leveraging technology tools, such as learning management systems (LMS) and eLearning authoring tools, facilitates continuous learning and development.

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Metrics ROI Training Training 147

Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

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. Rather than debating the advantages of agile teams, why not start demonstrating them? Perhaps my journey to agile will help you figure out how to begin your own.

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Agile Energy Retail Case Interview 132

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Project lifecycles and cultures manage all those risks. And, you can decide if you want to try to change the culture. Solving Deterministic Problems Does Not Require an Agile Approach. And, you might need both, which is why many projects use some sort of iterative and incremental (but not agile) lifecycles.

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Clarity Consultants

MARCH 29, 2025

Organizations must now equip their leaders with essential skills such as agility, emotional intelligence, and a forward-thinking mindset to effectively navigate and succeed in an unpredictable future. Continuous Learning Culture: Leadership development can be seen as a continuous process rather than a singular event.

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Development Leadership Emotional Intelligence Training 130

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

In Today’s Digital Economy, Agile Practices Can’t Be Limited to Just the IT and Development Realms. By Surya Panditi, SVP and GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. Agile practices have a vital part to play in the rapid delivery and continuous maintenance of software-driven products and services.

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Simon Associates

OCTOBER 12, 2022

I'm very pleased to announce that I will be speaking at the Enterprise Agility World Conference 2022: Where Science Meets Organizational Change. As a culture change expert , my topic is just what I love to talk about — how to build an organizational culture for fast-changing times.

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Culture Conference Agile Enterprise 73

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? Preston Smith and Don Reinertsen published Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules, New Tools in 1998. I wrote about Agility in Name Only.

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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

Clarity Consultants

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

These strategies foster a continuous learning culture, where employees are encouraged to acquire new skills, share knowledge, and innovate. By embedding learning into the organization’s fabric, companies can remain competitive and agile in the face of change. Robust organizational learning strategies often drive this commitment.

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Development Training Training Agile 147

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Change agility requires an answer to the question “Why?”,

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Chad Barr

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Successful companies, like Apple or Google, deliberately foster a culture of “space” where innovation can flourish. The backspace represents agility—the ability to pivot, revise, and improve. In a world where every keystroke counts, the space bar and the backspace are our tools for crafting a masterpiece.

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Agile Course Marketing Media 52

Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

Many corporate cultures require collaboration far beyond what is needed to get the job done. Together, these structural and cultural factors lead to fragmented calendars and even fragmented hours during the day. With Agile approaches, teams focus on fewer, more critical activities. Weak time-management disciplines.

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Company Energy Tools Talent 134

Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

You can’t put new wine into old bottles, so whatever sophisticated technologies companies implement, without transforming people, culture, and processes in your company, even the most advanced of them will become a waste of money. . Culture and Change: The Basis for Transformation . And they’re right, but only to some extent.

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Tools Operations Efficiency Talent 147

LSA Global

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Ensure that Ways of Working and Thinking Are Aligned with Your Strategy Once your strategy is clear enough to act, the next step is to ensure that your workplace culture how people think, behave, and act is purposefully aligned with your strategy. Is your culture helping or hindering the achievement of your strategic objectives?

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Talent Training Training Culture 48

Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

In addition to the “technical side” of project management, the author shares his ideas regarding effective stakeholder management, trust-based leadership, and effective decision-making as well as gives a variety of tools and techniques that can add value to your daily project management activities.

Management 29

Management Handbook Case Study Case Studies 29

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 organization changes (both products and tooling), people might not make those mistakes again. As the teams used agile approaches, they requested more and more frequent deployments.

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Policies Leadership Guidelines Agile 131

Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I never had to experience CASE tools in the 90s. “Agile” as a way to do much more work in much less time. (NO! I'm a huge fan of tools that help me do my job. Yes, use paper, because you will interrupt yourself less than if you use an electronic tool.) Tools might help us. It doesn't work that way!!)

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

Company 131

Company Agile Training Training 131

Johanna Rothman

JUNE 9, 2022

A senior manager said, “We give our resources everything they could need: technology, tools, even some training. ” These managers have created a resource efficiency culture, not a flow efficiency culture, as in the image above. In contrast, a flow efficiency culture watches the flow of the work.

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Efficiency Culture Resources Management 76

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. As we’ve noted above, a CPO should be proficient in leveraging software tools. What organizations require a CPO?

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Resources Methodologies Efficiency Metrics 157

Organizational Talent Consulting

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A company-wide or team view of 360-degree feedback provides talent management insights into organizational performance and culture. This way, the company can get additional organizational benefits from aggregating feedback data to identify systemic opportunities and feedback on the organization's culture. References: Baker, A.,

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Leadership Tools Education Journal 70

Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

When the new system, Compass, was rolled out to all 44 offices, the fact that it was born of a problem identified by internal staff helped accelerate the tool’s adoption across the firm. Fast-iteration methodologies are a prerequisite, because talent tech has to be tailored to specific business needs and company context and culture.

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Talent Management Methodologies System 129

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Last year, I was part of a geographically distributed team who wrote the Agile Practice Guide. Shane Hastie interviewed us during Agile 2017. is here: Johanna Rothman and Mike Griffiths on the Agile Alliance/PMI Agile Practice Guide. We now have tools to make collaboration at a distance fun and productive.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2017

It’s about creating an agile organization that can detect what type of change is essential and respond quickly with the most competitive solution. But taking full advantage of it requires significant cultural changes. Again, that requires some critical organizational and cultural changes.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Improving situational agility. Provided online access to participant support tools and microlearning. Building leadership team trust and confidence in relationships. Increasing self-awareness. Maximizing team potential and the impact of cross-functional collaboration. Decreasing stress and increasing team engagement.

Training 41

Training Training Leadership Talent 41

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

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We hear about agile teams, in the form of product or feature teams. ” If we want business agility, managers need to work in teams—maybe even before we think about product or feature teams. They learned that some teams had successful experiments with faster builds and different tools. That's what I need!”

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Management Agile Productivity Culture 87

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2022

In Agile and Lean Program Management , I suggested two other views of large products. See Create Feedback Loops (Agile Approaches) for Hardware Products.). The series so far (which arose from A Common Tool Trap: the Tool Will Help Your Delivery and Planning Problems ): See and Resolve Team Dependencies, Part 1: Inside the Team.

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Productivity Agile Efficiency Data 116

Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

.” If managers realize the teams don't have the tools, the time, the hard resources—whatever the teams need—the managers might rethink what they ask of the teams. Realize that an agile culture starts with the questions the managers pose and the answers they need. Teams would not multitask.

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Productivity Agile Management Tools 106

Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

” Many of us now work in constantly connected, always-on, highly demanding work cultures where stress and the risk of burnout are widespread. Since the pace and intensity of contemporary work culture are not likely to change, it’s more important than ever to build resilience skills to effectively navigate your worklife.

Energy 132

Energy Agile Survey Training 132

Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Forum participants will have an opportunity to learn from inspirational project management leaders as well as attend masterclasses revealing the aspects of delivering sustainable projects, Agile transformation, application of technologies, and more. is the largest Agile conference in Central Europe. PMO London 2024 June, 18-19.

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Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 130

Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Its significance can make or break successfully “refreezing” those changes into a workplace’s culture (Lewin), especially in a business landscape marked by rapid evolutions. Flexible Organizational Culture: A culture that promotes openness to new ideas and approaches fundamentally fosters success.

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Culture Leadership Change Management Organizational Development 98

LSA Global

APRIL 11, 2024

A Guide to Boosting Organizational Change Agility: The Top 6 Best Practices Most leaders understand that organizational change is both a constant and a necessity. Change management consulting experts define agility as the capacity of an organization to anticipate, respond to, and capitalize on internal and external changes.

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