Johanna Rothman

JUNE 27, 2019

A colleague asked me about the kinds of documentation the team might need for their stories. How little could they do for requirements documentation? I start with the pattern of Card, Conversation, Confirmation when I think about requirements and how much documentation. for ways to use lifecycles other than waterfall or agile.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. They keep customers happier.

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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. The tactics are clear, well-documented, and offered up in a myriad of flavors. A Quick Introduction to Agile Management. Related Video.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 28, 2019

You need enough insight or prediction to start the marketing campaign or to create training videos or product documentation. Agile and Lean Program Management , and in Create Your Successful Agile Project. You might not have a product without documentation tutorials or marketing. You can see demos. That's not the problem.

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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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Steve Shu Consulting

MAY 4, 2018

Here are a few concepts I have used (but situations vary widely based on the situation and team composition): Document the problem statement, the problem solving structure, the set of workstreams and activities to execute the project, governance process, and structure of each deliverable.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2022

A colleague unfamiliar with lifecycles or agility asked, “How can we use sprints in this approach?” ” and pointed to a phase-gate approach with documentation deliverables after each phase. ” He said, “We'll deliver documents after each phase.” It's not a long document.

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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 teams used agile approaches, they requested more and more frequent deployments. A lot of the friction we see is anti-agility. It's time to start removing some of those policies and procedures.

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Document all measurement processes and train relevant staff on proper data collection and analysis techniques. To ensure consistency: Establish standardized data collection methods and stick to them over time. Use automated systems where possible to reduce human error and ensure regular data collection.

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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

JULY 27, 2023

See What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? From their pre-customer release defect escape data, they learned: The requirements document was out of date almost as soon as the marketing people had completed it. Finally, they moved to an incremental lifecycle and then to an iterative and incremental but not agile lifecycle.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I ask the question: How little can we do to satisfy our needs? See my series about the agile roadmaps to see how that might work in practice. I want to avoid inflicting help as a manager on agile teams. Let Agile Teams Manage Themselves.). I think that way for management, also.

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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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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. I don't care what it is, as long as everyone has equal and easy access to that board/document.)

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Epicflow

MAY 4, 2023

Some companies can be tempted to apply Agile methodology because of its flexibility; but without proper planning, it won’t become a silver bullet ensuring the successful completion of an R&D project. Applying a phase-gate process can help you address this issue.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Yet they are often masks for deeper feelings that we could and should describe in more nuanced and precise ways, so that we develop greater levels of emotional agility , a critical capability that enables us to interact more successfully with ourselves and the world (more on emotional agility in my new book of the same name, available here ).

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Reviewed current development success profiles, agreed upon leadership competencies , and relevant strategy documentation. Improving situational agility. Attended a 2-day strategy retreat to ensure alignment and connection to High Functioning Team Training principles. Building leadership team trust and confidence in relationships.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Now, these things are crucial to boosting business agility and enabling “citizen developers.” Groups will be able to simultaneously edit documents on a virtual whiteboard. Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

The costs of context switching are well documented : switching to a new task while still in the middle of another increases the time it takes you to finish both tasks by 25%. For example, by adopting agile principles, leaders can motivate and energize teams, and give individual team members a way to own the results.

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Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

Documentation of the results obtained. Document the findings, observations, and lessons learned from the POC process. Flexibility : Epicflow is applicable to any project management methodology you stick to, including Agile. Finally, make an informed decision about whether to proceed with the full implementation of Epicflow.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Agile software development is a set of principles and practices that aim to improve the effectiveness of software development. Although agile software development promises to reduce costs and boost creativity, the reliability and consistency of a consulting service could be negatively affected.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

The computational agility of cloud computing has been playing a role in manufacturing as well, fostering the creation of new “smart’” products. This operational agility can be particularly valuable when facing uncertain demand or a fast-evolving competitive environment.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 21, 2021

A = “We need to build a more robust M&A pipeline that evaluates potential targets and moves to the execution phase with more agility. As much as people claim to like detailed documents, they dislike confusion and delay even more. This can be achieved by…”. Organise your overall argument.

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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. The team’s project workspace so the team can put project documents in one specific place. Now, as I write this series, the coronavirus is winging its way around the globe.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 15, 2020

The more we want an agile organization that might be able to bounce forward , the more we need to create an environment of thinking and trust. Relieved, I presented the signed-off document to my VP and then asked this question: “Why didn't you trust me to do what's right?” I no longer remember what that was.).

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

That means retailers must learn to compete head-on with Amazon in two fundamental capabilities: agile innovation and expense management. This innovation in innovation requires moving from predictive plans (based on increasingly unpredictable market conditions) to adaptive, agile innovation teams. Agile innovation teams are small.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. Change Documentation Develop and implement a standard set of training modules on key skills-based aspects of the new way of working.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

You might slow down if you have no documentation. And, don’t tell me about self-documenting code. I wrote about this in Create Your Successful Agile Project.). That scheduling takes time and interrupts the work people are doing now. That fallacy has been around for as long as I’ve been alive. It was wrong then.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Yes, the premise of my Agile and Lean Program Management book.) I have never seen those three conditions in any non-agile project, but that could be my experience and not universal. The architect collaborates with the other architects, so the architecture is coherent across the product. Let me start with the idea of feedback loops.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 8, 2019

I started this series with the question: If we have teams for all other aspects of an agile approach, why wouldn't we want the product owner to also work as part of a team? the PRD (Product Requirements Document) to the team. Iterative, Incremental, and Agile Approaches Reduce the Feedback Loop Durations.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

While software for legal document review has existed for years, it typically only helps companies store and organize their contracts. AI contracting software can, for example, identify contract types (even in multiple languages) based on pattern recognition in how the document is drafted. Indeed, Professor Gillian K.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 4, 2020

Agility is guaranteed when companies use cloud computing services. Cloud services enable greater visibility and collaboration by providing one version of a document (e.g. For ecommerce company, this means their site will be up and running no matter how much traffic they have on the site. Increased collaboration .

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 17, 2024

An effective change roadmap highlights the business case for change , documents key assumptions, and outlines each phase of the change process into specific, time-bound milestones. Change at work is a dynamic process, and successful change partnerships at work recognize this by remaining agile and open to course corrections.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

As for certifications, as I write this in 2019, the agile community has too many framework battles. Here are some example bios, specifically for non-consultants who don't have a ton of experience: Jill Jones, currently a technical lead for BigCloudServiceProvider, experiments with agile approaches in teams and across the organization.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

What if you can complete a feature set in a couple of weeks, and really have it be done, build and test automation, and any user documentation or internal documentation complete? See Create Your Successful Agile Project for how to use cycle time to reduce the time you spend on estimation.). I high-five you.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

Back to the development of the hypothetical SmartEat app: Before developing the app, the company must first ensure its data policy is in place, while documenting the list of foods that should be included/excluded. What this means is that the completion of one phase will trigger the start of the next consecutive phase.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Upfront work needs to be done to prevent potential unintended negative issues, such as closed-mindedness, rater bias, individuals using the assessments to attack a leader, or a culture that avoids direct communication. 360 Assessment Key #1: ,KISS You probably have heard of the K.I.S.S. principle.

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