Effective Managers

JULY 26, 2024

A Guide to Agile Practices and Their Benefits in Today’s Dynamic Business Environment In to-day’s business landscape, agility has become a key driver for success. Agile methodology, originally conceived for software development, has transcended its IT roots to become a vital approach in various business sectors.

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Methodologies Agile Productivity Training 146

Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

Still, effective project management requires more than profound knowledge and expertise: it demands the right tools to streamline processes, enhance team collaboration, and enable efficient decision-making everything you need to reach your companys strategic goals. Increased efficiency in managing project timelines and budgets.

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Tools Software Efficiency Resources 130

Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Efficient portfolio management is essential for business success in todays competitive landscape. By providing real-time insights and streamlining complex workflows, project portfolio management tools empower organizations to handle diverse initiatives with precision and agility. What Are Project Portfolio Management Tools?

Tools 130

Tools Management Software Resources 130

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2021

As I've been speaking about the Modern Management Made Easy books, people ask these questions: We're pretty good with our agile approach. These people tell me their career ladder doesn't work to enhance agility. That disconnect occurs when managers, HR, everyone focuses on resource efficiency, not flow efficiency.

Agile 132

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2021

One of my clients wants to use shared services “teams” as they start their agile transformation. That's because the managers think resource efficiency works. They don't realize how much more effective flow efficiency is.). Agile approaches break the idea of a “shared service” model of people. .

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Agile Efficiency Productivity Development 119

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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Effective Managers

JUNE 19, 2024

This transformation involves not only adjusting to new realities like remote work and digital transformation but also developing key traits such as agility and empathy. For leaders, this means the ability to streamline operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive innovation with unprecedented efficiency.

Leadership 246

Leadership Agile Operations Data 246

Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. 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. Learn and experience how agile works. What can I do?”

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Agile Energy Retail Case Interview 134

Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2023

Organizational innovation is fueled through effective and agile creation, management, application, recombination, and deployment of knowledge assets and know-how. As such, a company’s comprehensive knowledge is often unaccounted for and difficult to organize and deploy where needed in an effective or efficient way.

Training 192

Training Training Data Agile 192

Tom Spencer

APRIL 11, 2025

It requires collaboration, agility, and a deep understanding of the customer. Cross-functional teams have emerged as a powerful model for fostering innovation and efficiency in product development, allowing companies to break down silos, improve communication, and leverage diverse expertise to create better products, faster.

Engineering 88

Engineering Productivity Development Efficiency 88

Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

Flow efficiency at all levels. Let me address a little about business agility and innovation. Business agility allows us to create a culture where we plan to change. Too many people think business agility is about the ability to do more of the same, faster. The post Want Business Agility? Manage for effectiveness.

Agile 83

Agile Efficiency Culture Resources 83

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Are you trying to make an agile framework or approach work? Maybe you've received a mandate to “go agile.” Or, maybe you're trying to fit an agile framework into your current processes—and you've got a mess. I've seen plenty of problems when people try to adopt “agile” wholesale.

Agile 111

Agile Software Construction Analysis 111

Epicflow

JUNE 8, 2022

Agile has become the most popular methodology in recent years and has proven its efficiency for millions of companies already so nobody has any doubts about it today. The most popular and widely used Agile methodology is Scrum. Read further to learn the details. The Role of Sprints in Project Management .

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Agile Resources Management Methodologies 130

Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2024

Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) has gone on a journey from being the least efficient user of technology in the Blue Cross system to the most efficient as measured on a technology cost per employee basis. Interviews with the BCBSM management team identified seven principles that guided their actions.

Healthcare 156

Healthcare Agile Efficiency Interviews 156

Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Productivity metrics: Assess changes in output per employee or team efficiency. These tools enable organizations to deliver training programs efficiently, track learner progress, and measure the impact of L&D initiatives. Cost savings: Measure reductions in operational costs due to increased efficiency or reduced errors.

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Metrics ROI Training Training 147

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Several of my trusted advisor clients have asked this question, “Why do I need to choose between effectiveness and efficiency? Then move to efficiency, by asking the managers and the teams to lower their WIP and right-size their work. That's neither effective nor efficient. Not efficient. That's not efficient. (Or

Efficiency 103

Efficiency Management How To Consulting 103

Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 29, 2022

Agile strategy leads to 220% increase in revenue. As the organization moved forward with acquisitions as outlined in the strategy, Brimstone worked with the organization on integration, building one culture, and identifying operation synergies and efficiencies. CASE STUDY. Let's talk CONTACT BRIMSTONE.

Agile 96

Agile Strategy& Strategy Strategy 96

Johanna Rothman

MAY 18, 2021

I had the pleasure of being on the Agile Uprising Podcast: Modern Management Made Easy with Johanna Rothman. How trust, empathy, and creating a safe environment are what allows us to use agile approaches. The post Fun Discussion with the Agile Uprising appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Agile Exercises Management Consulting 93

Clarity Consultants

JUNE 30, 2023

The more training you offer, the more efficient and effective employees are in a role. Retaining existing employees is far more cost-efficient than hiring and training new talent. Enhanced Organizational Agility If there’s one thing that the pandemic showed us, it’s that adapting to changing market dynamics is essential.

Development 265

Development Training Training Agile 265

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2024

I started this series by discussing why managers didn't perceive the value of agile coaches and Scrum Masters in Part 1, resulting in layoffs.) That's why I then asked people to review their product-oriented domain expertise and agile-focused domain expertise in Part 3. Especially, Agile is Not a Silver Bullet.

Agile 96

Agile Management Metrics Culture 96

Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 29, 2020

important;}”] A conversation on agile strategy and opportunity with Andy Frawley and Bob Weiler. The current environment requires agility and agility, Bob Weiler reminds us, starts with market realities. The process of developing and executing agile strategy highlights critical issues. Market Realities.

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Agile Strategy& Strategy Strategy 95

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 11, 2021

Worse, most career ladders assume we can assess what a person can do, not on their contributions to an agile team. That means most career ladders don't fit agile teams or an agile culture. Instead of individual achievements, we can reward the types of agile leadership we want to see in agile teams.

Agile 95

Agile Engineering Productivity Culture 95

Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The combination of these strategies led to significant improvements in employee performance and operational efficiency, as the training was both targeted and highly engaging. The combined approach led to a significant reduction in the training time required for new hires, thereby enhancing the agility and proficiency of the workforce.

Training 130

Training Training Case Study Case Studies 130

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. Team-based “agile” is not enough.

Agile 69

Agile Management Efficiency Culture 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. I asked if any of the teams succeeded at using an agile approach at the team level. I didn't have the words for the ideas of Cost of Delay , nor of flow efficiency. No, none of them had.

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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

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.

Agile 69

Agile Productivity Culture Management 69

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. Yes, they read Create Your Successful Agile Project and Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization.). Why do you have deadlines?

Agile 85

Agile Meeting Software Government 85

Epicflow

MARCH 19, 2024

The Epicflow team continues implementing the most powerful functionality to provide our clients with a variety of tools to juggle projects and resources most efficiently. In software development projects or any Agile environment, it’s typical to work with cross-functional teams consisting of employees with different roles (e.g.,

Management 130

Management Agile Engineering Software 130

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?

Agile 67

Agile Software Efficiency Construction 67

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.

Agile 66

Agile Software Productivity Culture 66

Johanna Rothman

JUNE 9, 2022

Resource Efficiency. ” “Each resource has at least two projects so they stay productive and efficient.” ” These managers have created a resource efficiency culture, not a flow efficiency culture, as in the image above. .” Resource efficiency means we watch each person's effort.

Efficiency 76

Efficiency Culture Resources Management 76

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Successful change-agile leaders at all levels in the organization respond to changes in the business environment by seizing opportunities, including throwing out old models and developing new ways of doing business.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 19, 2024

This transformation involves not only adjusting to new realities like remote work and digital transformation but also developing key traits such as agility and empathy. For leaders, this means the ability to streamline operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive innovation with unprecedented efficiency.

Leadership 130

Leadership Agile Operations Data 130

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.

Interviews 96

Interviews Culture Agile Efficiency 96

Johanna Rothman

JUNE 4, 2024

And given the plethora of “agile” coaches, too many managers have relinquished their coaching roles to these (supposed) agilists. What if it's most efficient to do the work for a person or a team? Reducing management delays and increasing management throughput allows everyone to be efficient and effective.

Efficiency 63

Efficiency Management How To Metrics 63

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

I discussed the origins of the agile approaches in Part 5. In this post, I'll discuss how you can create an agile approach that fits your context. Why should you create your own agile approach? You deserve an agile approach that helps you achieve the business outcomes you need. What do you need? Start with the Team.

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