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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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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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2021

One of my clients wants to use shared services “teams” as they start their agile transformation. The organization wonders why no one can “meet” a deadline. That's because the managers think resource efficiency works. They don't realize how much more effective flow efficiency is.).

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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. This story is not unique.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 19, 2024

As we navigate this post-pandemic landscape, it’s clear that the future of leadership hinges on embracing change and evolving to meet new demands. 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.

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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.

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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 .

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2021

He thought agile approaches would work to “meet” and “enforce” deadlines. I asked him these questions: Do you think people don't want to meet their deadlines? The company had deadlines because it wanted to meet market demands. These patterns make “meeting” a deadline impossible.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

” It's too hard to find time to meet. We can't find a place to meet. If we're back in the office, we have no meeting rooms. Or, we have some remote people, so we need several “places” to meet and the technology to support all those places. about meetings. We all have them. Most of us hate them.

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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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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.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Ron Jeffries, Matt Barcomb, and several other people wrote an interesting thread about prescriptive and non-prescriptive approaches to team-based agile. If you don’t want to read the entire thread, here is a summary: People often need help with their agile approach. That’s why we have the agile values and principles.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

For the growing companies, it’s crucially important to keep track of all their products and make sure they are in demand and meet customers’ needs. Efficient product portfolio management allows a company to be agile and respond to arising market demands. Product portfolio management can make this happen.

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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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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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Effective Managers

JUNE 19, 2024

As we navigate this post-pandemic landscape, it’s clear that the future of leadership hinges on embracing change and evolving to meet new demands. 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.

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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 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?

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 17, 2020

Every single person in a leadership position struggles with (agile) team transparency. When we ask for more meetings, we interrupt people just as they might have an hour or two to work. Standups are not for serial status meetings. That kind of control is incongruent with agile leadership. I think they're correct.)

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. (I I didn't like what I saw at the Agile 2019 conference.) This part is about what “Agile” or “agile” means. I understand that people want what they perceive as the value “Agile” will bring them. Why a Manifesto?

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In a few words, the industry is going to evolve in three major areas: implementing recent technological advancements (Industry 4.0), finding ways to address post-pandemic challenges, and meeting sustainability requirements. How Digitization Makes the Supply Chain More Efficient, Agile, and Customer-Focused. AdvancedTech.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 4, 2020

Company A is working on its umpteenth “agile transformation.” One of the big problems is that the managers think agile approaches will give them faster delivery. Company A managers don't believe in flow efficiency. And, the managers expect people to deliver “their” stuff, meeting those objectives.

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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. They adjourned the meeting to get forecasts from the teams. We had the top three projects at that first meeting.

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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. In addition, they also make sure that every project meets the established goals and delivers expected benefits.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

The book will also tell you how not to annoy your people during meetings, how to generate and manage creative ideas, and how office politics can be a kind of problem-solving. They’re under pressure to meet deadlines that sometimes overlap, juggle all these projects’ shared resources, set priorities, and ensure team members’ productivity.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Then, explain that they don't have to meet with you for a long time, but they do need to meet with you frequently. The more often the product leader is available, the fewer meetings the product leader needs. Adam, a product leader, has changed his meetings and workshops. Or change the project portfolio more often?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 10, 2020

If you're like many of the teams I meet, you've sort of got a handle on things. 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.

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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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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

JANUARY 6, 2023

” These people claim there is no need for either role in an effective team, especially an agile team because the team can manage its own deliverables. While some agile teams can manage their own deliverables, that's not the only role for a project or program manager. No one sees the big picture. However, we still had uncertainty.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Meeting the increasing demand under conditions of ongoing resource shortage is a challenge for manufacturing project management. Read the next section to find out how the implementation of project management can help them meet these needs. More efficient utilization of resources. Better visibility of the manufacturing processes.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

We reinforce a culture of resource efficiency. We reinforce a culture of flow efficiency. Flow efficiency can help create and reinforce a product culture.). Why do you think managers have hours and hours of meetings in a day? If you want to move to an agile culture, start thinking in terms of teams.

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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. The teams have worked hard to change how they work. Educate them.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

They spend the rest of their time attending meetings, sending e-communications or working in time increments of less than 20 minutes, a practice that makes it difficult to accomplish a specific task and in the worst cases can lead to employee burnout. This includes more autonomy and agility as well as inspirational leadership.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Online virtual assistants, such as Amy or Andrew at x.ai, schedule meetings based on calendars and preferences, propose a range of times by email, negotiate with (human) administrative assistants as needed, and send invitations. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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