Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 21, 2021

When I think about agile approaches to work, I think about how fast we can change and the cost of those changes. That's why an agile approach with deliverables every day or week doesn't fit with some kinds of projects, such as events. Events often require an iterative approach , but there's only one deliverable.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

one way to look at this is in terms of an exogeneous event that constituents have to react to (e.g., There will be some players that will be way more agile than others and able to capitalize on both important behavioral implications and operational tactics. Maybe it can be part of a Spring-cleaning or offsite event for your company.

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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. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. They allow a company to be more agile and to more effectively adapt to digital disruption. Can you run fast and go deep at the same time?

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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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Clarity Consultants

MARCH 29, 2025

Organizations must now equip their leaders with essential skills such as agility, emotional intelligence, and a forward-thinking mindset to effectively navigate and succeed in an unpredictable future. Continuous Learning Culture: Leadership development can be seen as a continuous process rather than a singular event.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Companies that follow the Toyota Production System use Kaizen events to improve productivity on the manufacturing line. Similarly, many organizations are experimenting with using Agile sprints beyond the traditional areas of product development and innovation.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

From a company perspective, a workplace culture that values employee learning and development ensures that the workforce remains agile enough to tackle future challenges. Just remember, to sustain a learning advantage, the desired skills and behaviors must be consistently modeled, monitored, and rewarded.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 31, 2024

This trend towards specialization and personal service is reshaping the landscape, offering clients a unique blend of niche expertise, agility, competitive pricing, and strong relationships that big-name consultancies struggle to match. The decisions of the firm are ultimately more specialized, agile, cost-effective, and client-centric.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2022

A colleague unfamiliar with lifecycles or agility asked, “How can we use sprints in this approach?” See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.). Several events, such as “Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective” (quoted from the Scrum Guide).

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Projects were selected across channels to highlight agility, innovation, and customer centricity. Reddy’s employees be proactive with their customer requests and solve any problems in an agile way. At the internal launch event, Dr. Reddy’s employees learned about their purpose and were invited to be part of realizing it.

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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. If you want people to work remotely for weather or health event, they need high bandwidth access in their homes. If people have a weather event such as snow, they need time to shovel.

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1 to 1

JULY 2, 2013

1to1 Media''s Tom Hoffman speaks with Steve Kraus, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Pegasystems about the key themes that emerged from the PegaWORLD 2013 event, including the need for companies to become more agile and flexible in their approach to delivering on what customers are looking for. 1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

When this issue is happening simultaneously in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, South Africa, Turkey, Brazil, and Poland—all within the same year and likely to continue—it becomes clear that the scale of the problem is much bigger than a one-off disruptive event in a single country.

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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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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Risk management being an integral part of project management involves predicting all possible risk-bearing events and planning responses to them. In this case, these events won’t ruin the workflow and there will be no risks for delaying the delivery of the product and/or spending extra costs. Effective risk management.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 15, 2020

The more we want an agile organization that might be able to bounce forward , the more we need to create an environment of thinking and trust. We create policies because some event(s) occurred in the past. Those events created problems for someone or many someones. However, too often, policies create rigidity, not resilience.

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Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Backed by award-winning services and support teams, Blackbaud’s comprehensive set of Internet solutions, featuring Blackbaud NetCommunity and Blackbaud Sphere eMarketing along with our industry leading peer-to-peer and event fundraising solution, Friends Asking Friends , is designed to meet the evolving needs of nonprofits.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2018

What you make of events is more important than the events themselves. For many of us, though, holding steady really means slipping—as we ignore the threat of competition from younger, more agile innovators, bypass opportunities for greater reward, and sacrifice personal growth.” Don’t wait for a catalyst.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 2, 2024

See the roadmap series starting with Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 3, Flow-Based Roadmapping to see how to integration options into your various roadmaps. In addition, the lower your WIP needs to be, so you can complete something useful before external events force you to change. (I And the smaller your stories.)

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The Source

JANUARY 15, 2021

The events of 2020 have undoubtedly shaken things up in the world of consulting firm content production. Here are our top three: A more agile mindset. From our unique position looking across the whole thought leadership landscape, we believe there are some key trends that will help to shape 2021.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

While nimble startups chasing the next trend are exciting, the truth is that companies rarely succeed by adapting to market events. That can’t be done through agility alone, but takes years of preparation to achieve. One company that’s become famous for its agility is Google. Agility is overrated.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 23, 2020

Acme has been working towards agility for the last couple of years. and in Create Your Successful Agile Project. They don't have a program manager (as in Agile and Lean Program Management ). And, because there was a specific marketing event, the managers wanted the teams to complete the work in about six months.

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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. But the scale at Intermountain Healthcare, where more than 2,500 huddles occur every morning, makes it especially illuminating and instructive.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Even though we were following the typical playbook — posting open positions on job boards that specialize in attracting candidates from underrepresented groups, sponsoring events, giving scholarships, and training our employees on inclusion and hidden bias — we weren’t seeing progress. Native American, 18.1%

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2016

In some cases companies will feel confident enough to bet on particular scenarios; in others they may wish to diversify measures to become scenario-agnostic or to create options and boost agility to be able to move decisively when matters become clearer. Continually update the industry and company assessment as events unfold.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This accounts for potential traffic delays, long security lines, or other unforeseen events. In short, these everyday buffers help us manage uncertainties and offer peace of mind, reinforcing that while we can’t foresee all events, we can prepare for many incidents. Preparing Dinner (Resource & Quantity Buffer).

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 25, 2018

I’m working on my roadmapping talk for Agile 2018. The faster we learn, the more often we can link the decision to the actual events and decisions that might have created those events. I finally had the transforming idea about how to position the talk: Roadmapping and product planning are about feedback loops.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

While oil prices will not spike to the peaks that they hit when OPEC and geopolitical events ruled the oil market, the oil markets will likely be unstable as the ranks of maverick shale producers swell, oil majors and national oil companies try out new digital techniques on their conventional fields, and new trade patterns emerge.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. Cultural agility is vital because, with over 60 global society cultures identified and numerous variations in regions within the national cultures, it is virtually impossible to be experienced in every situation. I experienced the importance of cultural agility early in my career. Tell Stories.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 29, 2016

When has trust made us faster and more agile? Hope: a positive, optimistic expectation of future events. Here are questions for each of the seven classical virtues that companies can use to shape these conversations and shift their focus from complying with the rules to excelling ethically. Trust: confidence in one another.

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Brimstone Consulting

AUGUST 26, 2021

With no time for planning, we were forced to innovate, to be agile , and be more human. The organization is now looking at the office and company events as a way to bring employees, and their families, together. When it comes to the way forward, there is no “right” path. As the COVID-19 crisis enveloped the globe, Eric J.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The most common chief executive exaltation we hear is “We must be more innovative, agile, and adaptable.” We were struck by the dissonance with the ambition — if you want to be more innovative and agile and anything could happen, isn’t that a truly brilliant notion?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2017

First, recognize that conflicts at work are usually not one-off events. ” If you’re more attuned to the conflicts that arise in you and around you, you can be more emotional agile. You need to put space between what’s happening (the disagreement) and your reaction. Here’s how. What exactly am I feeling?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

While most firms associate the consequential costs of these types of events as their risk, EvD is a subtler figure, which is revealed in persistent loss scenarios. For instance, recall the global system-wide outage that struck Delta Airlines in August, 2016 resulting in the unprecedented grounding of all flights.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

But a lucky few react with a degree of strategic clarity and mental agility that allows them to adapt with relative ease. According to recent McKinsey research, successful agile transformations deliver almost 30% improvements in efficiency, customer satisfaction, employee engagement, and operational performance.

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