Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Efficient product portfolio management allows a company to be agile and respond to arising market demands. Every product in the portfolio should be evaluated with the help of one of the product success metrics. Uncertainty poses another threat to efficient product portfolio management. .

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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.

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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

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. Ignorance of the flow metrics.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics. High-performing teams spend 14% more time checking their progress against strategic goals by reviewing key metrics and shifting resources accordingly.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

And, they want metrics. I wrote a series about that, starting with Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics, Part 1.). (The managers promised certain customers/the market/investors certain deliverables.). Worse, they want to start with a tool. That's never worked. However, starting with a tool?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

See the Flow Efficiency series.) As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( See Agile Program Measurements to Visualize and Track Progress and Measure Cycle Time for my suggestions of what to measure. You don't need too many metrics if you can see visible progress.

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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. Forecasting and decision-making Thanks to predictive analytics, PM tools analyze historical data along with current project metrics to predict how the project environment will change.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” Accountability is vital to the efficiency of the process.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Embrace Agile Methods for Responding to Customers. The key to this transformation was an innovation approach common in the software industry: agile invention methodology. The design teams can then use the feedback from their customers to quickly and efficiently improve the products. The risk had been managed well.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The promise of today’s breakthroughs is not just efficiency – it’s unleashing value creation and capture in a time of mounting performance pressure. Optimized for efficiency rather than discovery and experimentation, their innovation and growth will stall. Rethink your efficiency conversations.

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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. This includes the team's board and the team's metrics. I wrote Lessons Learned from Leading Workshops about Geographically Distributed Agile Teams with Shane Hastie back in 2013.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

See the Flow Efficiency series.) As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( See Agile Program Measurements to Visualize and Track Progress and Measure Cycle Time for my suggestions of what to measure. You don't need too many metrics if you can see visible progress.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We want more collaboration and smaller stories in any agile approach. That's often the case that the managers ask team members to do work that's not the team's work, or if the managers believe in resource efficiency. The wait time for cycle time is why thinking in flow efficiency is so important.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

By establishing a clear understanding of expectations and success metrics, your organization can ensure that everyone is working towards a common goal and contributing to the overall success of the organization. However, it's crucial to have a consistent and efficient method for tracking progress.

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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. 27% more effective. 25% higher performing. Are You a Real Team?

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. Efficiencies are lost in the cost of overhead. Programs and staff grow. What is “center-led”.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Digital Agility: Technology enables greater adaptability in response to changing conditions, helping firms accelerate digital transformation and optimize various aspects of their operations. Intelligent Automation: Advancements in AI analytics and automation support professionals in delivering deeper expertise efficiently and at scale.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? As companies move to more agile operating models , they must learn to balance accountability with autonomy. How do banks switch customer relationships from branch offices to mobile phone screens?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

More recently, however, companies have widened their aperture, recognizing that success with AI and analytics requires not just data scientists but entire cross-functional, agile teams that include data engineers, data architects, data-visualization experts, and—perhaps most important—translators. Why are translators so important?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

As an example, the CEO had been discussing the importance of driving more agile decision making. They have different strategic priorities; they are held accountable for new, shared metrics; they spend more time with cross-functional peers. And they have significantly more impact.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. While these changes might seem like a lot to take on at once, they represent a path toward agility, adaptability, and long-term resilience. Progressus allows for efficient task tracking and completion to determine which team members are the most productive.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

These questions encourage sales, marketing, service, and product development to stay agile, allowing them to adjust their strategies to meet the shifting needs of customers while identifying new growth opportunities in underserved markets. Do we have efficient workflows in place to ensure operational excellence on a larger scale?

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1 to 1

APRIL 21, 2022

The key to an omnichannel approach is giving the support team access to customer data and metrics across any channel. In addition to making customers happy, an omnichannel contact center adds value by centralizing data and tools under one system, which reduces resolution time while increasing efficiency and savings.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 10, 2024

I see many teams and team members who say, “Agile stinks. ” When I ask people what's happening, they say: We're doing an agile death march because someone else already told us what we have to do and the date it's due. And don't get me started on how coaches tend to do life coaching instead of support for agility.)

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. Can you create an agile culture for your team even if you can't change how the organization works?

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency, where we focus on watching the work, not the people. If you and your team have been practicing real agility, you might say these ideas barely show any agility at all.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

General Electric, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, Walmart, and CitiGroup — all were businesses led by managers who were experts in efficiency and optimization and who grew their businesses by making them work better than they had previously. Use New Metrics. As such, it is deadly to hold them to standard big-to-bigger growth metrics.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

That's why I wrote Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. ) Too often, that means people work in resource efficiency, not in flow efficiency. Yes, Little's Law and the flow metrics rule our work. If you can use a Gantt chart and you find it valuable, that's fine.

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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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