Agile Demo Efficiency 
Johanna Rothman
JANUARY 10, 2024
I see many teams and team members who say, “Agile stinks. ” When I ask people what's happening, they say: We're doing an agile death march because someone else already told us what we have to do and the date it's due. And don't get me started on how coaches tend to do life coaching instead of support for agility.)
Johanna Rothman
JANUARY 31, 2024
In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency, where we focus on watching the work, not the people. If you and your team have been practicing real agility, you might say these ideas barely show any agility at all.
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Johanna Rothman
MARCH 6, 2024
In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. Can you create an agile culture for your team even if you can't change how the organization works?
Johanna Rothman
JUNE 24, 2021
He thought agile approaches would work to “meet” and “enforce” deadlines. Even when we use a non-agile approach , schedule variance doesn't make sense. Because the “teams” couldn't deliver something small, they didn't demo very often. Over months, they stopped demoing anything.
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.
Johanna Rothman
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
If you took an agile workshop sometime in the past 15 years, you probably played the “ ball game.” Especially since they've probably suffered through way too many “agile” workshops with more and more games. That's an example of how insidious resource efficiency thinking is. Why do I have to play a game?”
Johanna Rothman
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Instead, I see assumptions that reveal a divide-and-conquer, and possibly a command-and-control culture, not an agile culture. Divide and Conquer is Anti-Agility I see the product owner and dev team as a divide-and-conquer approach to work. Individual work does not encourage flow efficiency thinking. ” The team succeeds.
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