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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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? 1,2 and so on.

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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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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2025

To optimize team potential, start by clearly defining the teams mission , goals, roles, success metrics , interdependencies, and expected outcomes. They use leadership simulation assessments , people manager assessment centers , and training needs assessments to continuously identify and develop what matters most to team success.

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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. This takes time.

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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. A second level of leaders was developed to support the company’s growth strategy.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Efficient product portfolio management allows a company to be agile and respond to arising market demands. Every product in the portfolio should be evaluated with the help of one of the product success metrics. In other words, it’s indicative of the company’s growth. The revenue must be reasonably invested to be doubled.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things , incorporating up-to-the-minute digital technology has become critical to its product innovation. They do this with methods proven useful in accelerating software development, such as “ Agile ,” and which are increasingly being used for hardware product development, too.

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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 I haven’t done any formal development or testing in a very long time.

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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

MARCH 18, 2024

That part discusses why managers see agile coaches and Scrum Masters as staff positions, not line jobs. I assume you have some sort of functional product development expertise. If not, why are you in technical product development? This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility.

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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.

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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.) That's not product development—and that's the first place we get stuck with Economies of Scale thinking. Product development requires teams who can learn together. Ignorance of the flow metrics.

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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.

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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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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. What organizations require a CPO? Decision-making The ability to make informed and reasonable decisions is critical for a CPO.

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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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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. 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.

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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. But tangible examples of these new ways of working are few and far between.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Customers today are not just consumers; they are also creators, developing content and ideas — and encountering challenges — right along with you. The metrics also changed. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. The results?

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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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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Organizational Development Book. Take Tom, a website developer whom I met on a consulting assignment at an accounting firm. “He was more concerned with protocol than personal development. It’s not often possible to ignore performance metrics or overcome policies and bureaucratic red-tape. We feel more alive.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

By tracking a metric, they can sell optimized wait times (elevators as a service) rather than banks of elevators based on price. But sustainable growth relies on developing a culture of constant innovation in everything the company does. That, in turn, has allowed the elevator companies to revamp their business models.

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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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Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Each meeting and workshop is designed to foster communication, increase engagement, increase trust, drive better decision-making, improve operating discipline, promote individual leadership development, build the capabilities of high-performing teams, and create alignment. Our process drives results.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

That's because they knew the customers would find problems the development teams had not found. But the development teams? That's because the development teams worked by phase, not by feature. See What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? And I'm the only developer on this product!

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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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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Here's my speaking bio, in specific lines, so you can see how I use that template: Johanna, known as the Pragmatic Manager, offers frank advice for your product development challenges. She works with individuals, teams, and leaders across the organization to resolve risks and see alternatives for their product development.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Large enterprises have been responding to these developments for some time, mainly by applying the methods of startups such as lean experimentation, design thinking, and agile development. A TAP worldview allows you to discover future markets instead of playing only in developed ones. Use New Metrics.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Read more from Korn Ferry: How to Develop Leaders Who Can Drive Strategic Change. 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. Discipline and Focus.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

By establishing a clear understanding of expectations and success metrics, your organization can ensure that everyone is working towards a common goal and contributing to the overall success of the organization. Are you ready to develop your team's ability consistently to track, monitor and report data?

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Kates Kesler

JULY 24, 2020

Organization capabilities are organization muscle, built through a combination of structure, process, metrics and rewards, and people practices. Creating intentionally smaller GM development roles can provide growth opportunities for all. Metrics and Rewards. Capabilities.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 22, 2020

Organization capabilities are organization muscle, built through a combination of structure, process, metrics and rewards, and people practices. Creating intentionally smaller GM development roles can provide growth opportunities for all. Metrics and Rewards. Capabilities.

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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 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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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

No longer will all developers be assigned to project work. These products are typically not for sale, but they do go through a defined development process and provide clear business benefits. Now, companies invest in ways that support a smaller, more agile approach so they can adjust as they find out what works.

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