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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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. We have a standup which is more like a serial status report at least once a day for an hour. (And

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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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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

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

Efficient product portfolio management allows a company to be agile and respond to arising market demands. risk and uncertainty management, progress analysis and reporting. Uncertainty poses another threat to efficient product portfolio management. . In other words, it’s indicative of the company’s growth.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

CEB reports that the average organization has undergone five enterprise-wide changes in the past three years and 73% expect change to accelerate (URL: [link] ). In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Change agility requires an answer to the question “Why?”,

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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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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

However, it's crucial to have a consistent and efficient method for tracking progress. Avoiding the Multiple Destination Trap with Tracking Monitoring and Reporting: As a leader, it can be challenging to ensure that everyone in your organization is on the same page when it comes to your strategic goals.

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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. What organizations require a CPO? One of a CPO’s tasks is to ensure optimal resource allocation across a company’s critical projects.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. Here’s the interesting part: Every architectural layer has a middle manager who reports to the senior manager. That’s a relic of how we centralize “support” functions and report profit and loss to the outside world.

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Productivity Agile Culture Efficiency 74

Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

In a nutshell, AI automates repetitive tasks and makes predictions thereby increasing efficiency, streamlining the workflow, and improving decision-making. According to the report, power skills involve: communication, problem-solving, collaborative leadership, and strategic thinking. How does this help?

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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, 2018

” is one of the questions I see when I work with people going through an agile transformation. Traditional measurements focus on resource efficiency instead of flow efficiency.) Resource efficiency measures don’t measure what the organization delivers or what prevents the organization from delivering.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

. “For most of the last half-century — 84 percent of the time since 1966 — average wages have grown more slowly than would be predicted based on productivity and inflation growth,” The New York Times reported. Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

His ideas regarding remote work difficulties and how to handle them are based on his research of Agile software development, human resources, supply chain management, cognitive psychology, organizational behavior, and labor economics. In addition, the book provides you with: Practical advice (e.g.,

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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. Across those fundamentals, eight key topics are reported every day. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.”

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Comatch

JANUARY 30, 2023

If you’re not into podcasts, reading white papers and reports is another great way to brush up on your knowledge. In doing so, you will be able to solve issues more quickly and efficiently, allowing you to build an appetite for decoding complex problems and keep your stakeholders happy.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2017

This approach is evident in, for example, agile software development methods. Thus the approach increases coordination demands and can reduce efficiency. We then created a network map of team expertise, based on the nominations and weighted by the reported value. Another approach is to let teams self-manage.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 13, 2022

Innovation is of great importance to corporations as new methods can be used to operate more effectively and efficiently, which can ultimately impact profitability. That is why business students can benefit from producing research and learning how to critically analyse reports.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2017

We call this subset of freelancers who do strategic work in companies or nonprofit organizations agile talent. By providing temporary support, they make it possible for organizations to resource their critical activities more cost efficiently. Many of the benefits of agile talent have been widely reported.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. These increasingly efficient survivors now represent half of U.S.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Instead of treating people as individuals (resource efficiency thinking), what if you looked at the team as a harmonic whole? If your team and organization are willing to go beyond resource efficiency to flow efficiency, you can probably develop your own alternatived/. He also includes problem reports.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

My company didn't want to pay me overtime so I had to only report 40 hours. I was working in resource efficiency. In Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation , I explained the desire for capitalization. People have to accurately report the state every single time the state changes. Work in flow efficiency.

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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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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. Product lines use flow efficiency thinking. I have found agile managers can succeed when they ask questions such as these: How can I make it easier for the people to do the right thing?

Productivity 65

Productivity Agile Efficiency Management 65

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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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2017

Technology is enabling people to use energy more efficiently in their homes, offices, and factories. At the same time, technological innovation in transportation, the largest single user of oil, is helping to lower energy consumption as engines become more fuel efficient and the use of autonomous and electric vehicles grows.

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Resources Industry Energy Efficiency 71

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. The place to report project status. In every case (yes, through about 20+ workshops), the people in my workshops reported that not everyone had licenses for all the necessary tools.

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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. survey report. To succeed in the digital economy, companies in these industries are finding it necessary to make a shift.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2017

I think that they should be businesslike in the approach they take to prioritizing and bringing in efficiencies. In fact, we’re not even sure you can legally do Agile! There have been recent government reports critical of 18F’s IT policies and planning. You can’t hire them fast enough. And that’s true.

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Government Policies Recruitment Recruiting 131

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 11, 2023

Enhanced Data Collection and Analysis Traditionally, finance professionals have relied on a multitude of sources for market news including economic reports, company updates, earnings reports, and management presentations. NLP is revolutionizing this process by streamlining data collection and analysis.

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Finance Analysis Data Financial 78

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

How could we organize if we want flow efficiency? Even before I knew about agile approaches, I spent a bunch of time creating unit tests and system tests so I could know that as I fixed/added/replaced code, I hadn’t introduced any problems. My transforming idea for this question was to think about the organization as legacy code.

Productivity 58

Productivity Agile Efficiency Management 58

LSA Global

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Creating a High Performing Team Explore how team motivation and performance are interrelated in delivering productivity, efficiency, and quality. The People Leadership Fundamentals workshop results were: 98.2% Job Relevance 98.4% Satisfaction 151% Knowledge Gain 95.5%

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Toward that end, policymakers have introduced value-based payment models that reward quality and efficiency, in contrast with the traditional fee-for-service model, which incentivizes volume. And that requires optimizing for quality and efficiency both at every step of the way, for value is a function of both.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

Uber is one of them: Its valuation rose to a record-setting $68 billion just seven years after its founding, despite reporting losses of more than $700 million in the first quarter of this year. Nurtured correctly, it can help a company achieve scale insurgency — a company with the benefits of both size and agility.

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