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?

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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. Leaders must leverage technology to maintain open lines of communication, ensuring that team members feel connected and informed.

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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. Insight Center.

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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.

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Epicflow

APRIL 30, 2025

Information systems have a determining impact on organizational performance by enhancing overall productivity, profitability, and resilience. Resource management functionality : These capabilities help allocate people and budgets efficiently across the entire portfolio.

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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. That means we look for data that informs our next steps.

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Productivity metrics: Assess changes in output per employee or team efficiency. A well-structured L&D strategy should include a mix of formal and informal learning, coaching and mentoring, and targeted training programs. Cost savings: Measure reductions in operational costs due to increased efficiency or reduced errors.

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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. See Multiple Short Feedback Loops Support Innovation for more information.).

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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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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In the corporate context, storytelling can: Enhance Memory and Retention : Information delivered through stories is more likely to be retained. Storytelling captivates attention by presenting information in a compelling, relatable format. Stories create emotional connections, making it easier for learners to recall key concepts.

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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.

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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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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 . Historical Load graph

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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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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 4, 2024

And often, that manager realized you needed more information. Maybe you asked your manager for coaching, specific information, or support. And given the plethora of “agile” coaches, too many managers have relinquished their coaching roles to these (supposed) agilists. Individual efficiency is a red herring.

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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. They don't have the information they needed when they need it. He said he wasn't sure, but he suspected they had not.

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Clarity Consultants

JANUARY 22, 2024

Additionally, generative AI models are developed using various data resources; not all that information is factual or reliable. The AI can struggle to distinguish legitimate information from broadly spread falsehoods or misunderstandings, potentially causing the created content to offer incorrect information to future learners.

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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? If you read these books, you could understand project-based agility. However, many people wanted “the recipe” for agility.

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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. Andy continues, “It is the most current information you’re going to get. Market Realities. Critical Issues.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Efficient product portfolio management allows a company to be agile and respond to arising market demands. It results in the acquisition of all necessary information about the company’s products in terms of their performance and success, namely. Uncertainty poses another threat to efficient product portfolio management. .

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

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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. Leaders must leverage technology to maintain open lines of communication, ensuring that team members feel connected and informed.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 21, 2022

So, automakers have to change their approaches to product development to make it shorter but no less efficient. . Nevertheless, automotive companies need to deliver their projects as successfully and efficiently as possible. Utilize available resources with maximum efficiency. Adopt Agile frameworks for product development.

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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. They might have valuable information. If some people aren't sure, they might not be as far along in their agile journey. Educate them.

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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

AUGUST 4, 2020

.” In my experience, when organizations want to use agile approaches or transform in some way, the managers start with the teams. Agile approaches can help teams improve, and many teams do release value faster. Under one condition: How much information do you ask the teams to deliver so you can decide?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 10, 2020

If your team works in flow efficiency , as in Part 1, your team collaborates and learns from each other. And, when teams use flow efficiency, they see these benefits: One person doesn't act as a bottleneck for their function or expertise. This is any lifecycle, not just an agile approach.). Start by Working as a Team.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

More Efficient Operations AI enables businesses to automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks, freeing up human resources to focus on more complex and strategic activities. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is becoming widely adopted to automate manual processes, reduce errors, and increase efficiency.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

“Agile” as a way to do much more work in much less time. (NO! Team learning time requires that the team —not just the managers—think in flow efficiency. His team used this collaboration board (from Create Your Successful Agile Project ), where they tracked asking for and offering help. It doesn't work that way!!)

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

See the Flow Efficiency series.) See Agile Program Measurements to Visualize and Track Progress and Measure Cycle Time for my suggestions of what to measure. I have more ideas and a more in-depth discussion in Create Your Successful Agile Project.). See Three Collaboration Secrets to Create Your Agile Culture.)

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

See Decide When You Need To Meet, Workshop, Or Write To Save Energy And Time for more information.) This might be story creation and refinement, experiment creation, or any kind of outcome that the team will use to inform its future work. Then, there are the status or information dissemination meetings. about meetings.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. The aggregation of information with context is extremely powerful, allowing organizations to move toward context- or data-driven workflows rather than rigid processes. Now, these things are crucial to boosting business agility and enabling “citizen developers.”

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Successful project delivery is usually a result of efficient management of both workflow and resources. What do you need to know to manage project resources with maximum efficiency? What do you need to know to manage project resources with maximum efficiency? The results of efficient resource management are as follows: .

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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. That's an example of how insidious resource efficiency thinking is. Why do I have to play a game?”

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Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

ompanies that invest enough in digital talent have three times higher chances for efficient transformation. The success of IT uplift is determined by the access to up-to-date tools, reduced maintenance costs, increased employee efficiency and satisfaction as well as better business performance. . Developing talent and skills . ?ompanies

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

In the era of constant transformation, project managers and business leaders should stay informed of the tendencies that will impact the way they work on projects. In a nutshell, AI automates repetitive tasks and makes predictions thereby increasing efficiency, streamlining the workflow, and improving decision-making.

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