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.

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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.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 29, 2022

Agile strategy leads to 220% increase in revenue. The STAP helped the leadership team increase trust, establish operating mechanisms, and to unify the group around a single strategic view of the division and its future. The post Agile Strategy Enables Significant Growth appeared first on Brimstone Consulting LLC. CASE STUDY.

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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.,

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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.

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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. Or send me an email.

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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. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. Related Video.

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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? I wasn't there, but maybe that's why the Snowbird group created the Manifesto. If you read these books, you could understand project-based agility.

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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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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

No one else in Steve's group could do this. Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers? You don't want to reinforce resource efficiency, even though you rewarded the person for that all along. Instead, you want to reinforce flow efficiency.

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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.” Workers will always look for tools, processes, and approaches to improve efficiency and productivity. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 12, 2021

You want business agility. The people and teams continue to experiment with agile behaviors. Every team's agile journey is unique. So is each manager's agile journey. If some people aren't sure, they might not be as far along in their agile journey. I recommend a working group of 3-5 people. Educate them.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

In a nutshell, AI automates repetitive tasks and makes predictions thereby increasing efficiency, streamlining the workflow, and improving decision-making. As a rule, they combine the traditional structured framework and predictability of Waterfall methodology with the flexibility and customization of Agile principles.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

More efficient utilization of resources. At the same time, it can be tempting to apply Agile with its flexibility, frequent value delivery, quick time to market, and intense interaction with clients. However, focusing solely on Agile has its pitfalls, e.g., a lack of long-term planning is one of the biggest ones.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2017

Or will flexible, self-organized groups perform better? This approach is evident in, for example, agile software development methods. Thus the approach increases coordination demands and can reduce efficiency. During implementation phase, a focus on building leads to increased efficiency. Should they be hierarchical?

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LSA Global

APRIL 21, 2025

The Top 7 Times to Considering Using an Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) ONA maps and measures relationships among individuals or groups, revealing the hidden social fabric of an organization. Thats where Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) can be a game-changing diagnostic tool.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2017

This isn’t simply frustrating; it can affect your entire group’s performance. “We all pick up on subtle cues from other people, and that affects our behaviors and actions,” says Susan David, founder of the Harvard/McLean Institute of Coaching and author of Emotional Agility. What the Experts Say. .

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The model has been used in other industries and has parallels to the “teams of teams” approach in the agile method of operating that has become so popular. By 9:15 AM, the reports of those directors are considered in Tier III huddles by hospital administrators and geographical clinic groups.

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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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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. Agile organizations are connected organizations. This age is ripe with opportunity. Connectivity.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The use of heuristics is then reinforced by operationalizing evidenced-based care into protocols, procedures and checklists designed to increase efficiency and reduce variation in process. To pilot this new approach, Monash Health established the new Agile Psychological Medicine Clinics (aPM Clinics).

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency. Projects were selected across channels to highlight agility, innovation, and customer centricity. Harness networks.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 25, 2016

On the one hand, they desperately seek greater agility; on the other, they genuinely want to include all the right stakeholders in their processes. Customers and clients demand greater agility, and employees and partners expect greater empowerment. But effective agility frequently demands inclusive stakeholder involvement.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Focus on the mindsets and behaviors necessary to be agile, adaptable, and comfortable challenging the status quo. Strategic Acumen & Agility Deepen the strategic impact of leaders. The post LSA Global Delivers Leading Leaders Workshop for Technology Group appeared first on LSA Global. Learn more about getting aligned.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Flow Efficiency In How Centralization Decisions Create Friction, Increase Cycle Time, and Cost Money, Part 1, I discussed how removing support staff for departments and managers created longer cycle times. Now, it's time for Economies of Scale and how that ties into resource efficiency thinking. See the Wikipedia article.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 5, 2023

Although he was eventually defeated, Napoleon held his ground through efficiency and agility. Because of their agility, Napoleon’s army was often able to obtain the best position on the battlefield. Through training, Napoleon’s army was able to switch between these formations quickly depending on what was needed.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In Part 1 , I suggested that when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. There might be a “centralized” function for these groups, but all the people developing and supporting this product are in the product line. Product lines use flow efficiency thinking.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

I was working in resource efficiency. Note: As a manager in a company a decade or so later, I filled out timesheets for everyone in my group. In Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation , I explained the desire for capitalization. Weekly or monthly releases if you're not using an agile approach. Often, no.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. Build Agility. While it is easy to say these pivots were a result of agility, it is important to differentiate between “brilliant improvisation” and a repeatable capability.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2017

Godbout: I have yet to see the case study of massive change management of innovation where a group of people came in and, like a whirlwind, changed everyone’s thoughts and executed the whole thing themselves. I think that they should be businesslike in the approach they take to prioritizing and bringing in efficiencies.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

While some banks and insurers were known for their service or products, most have long focused on operating as efficiently as possible. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. To succeed in the digital economy, companies in these industries are finding it necessary to make a shift.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 27, 2025

McKinsey research found that high performing teams can lead to a 30% increase in efficiency. We know from change management simulation data that successful teams are built on a foundation of clearly defined roles that ensure efficiency, accountability, and collaboration. Because not all Teams are in fact teams; many are working groups.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

In China, however, workers equated speed with efficiency. For example, the efficiency lens in China led to an adoption of the practice that was out of line with the goals of the innovation center to be more agile and iterative. With these groups, we noticed that management practices that worked well in Germany and the U.S.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 7, 2022

Resilience’, ‘agility’ and ‘holistic thinking’ are all features of effective business management that have gained widespread consensus approval, but the meaning behind these catchphrases often becomes blurred by the hype. As companies outsource their digital capacities to cloud computing providers, a widening communication gap is emerging.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

There’s no question that legacy IT systems are too slow and rigid for the agility that digital business demands. In the past, IT just provided direct services to the operating groups, according to Chief Information Officer Hector Calva. “Today everything is aligned with the COEs,” he said.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 2, 2022

However, the technology group will stop working on all the managers' projects. The technology group will get at least two weeks to work on projects that will make their work lives easier or better. The technology group has a long list, too. Instead of evaluating them separately, group them together and create a program.

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