Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 14, 2021

I had a great time with Jeff and Squirrel on their podcast, Troubleshooting Agile. If we want to be great managers, we need to learn how to be a manager. The post Great Fun on the Troubleshooting Agile Podcast, Part 1 appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. We had a wide-ranging and fun discussion.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2021

I like agile approaches because I can separate lots of deliverables into small, coherent pieces. I might not know how to achieve what I want yet. I worry that I have no idea how to achieve those deliverables for those deadlines. The team decides how to work. How we treat each other. Let me start with good stress.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 18, 2021

I had the pleasure of being on the Agile Uprising Podcast: Modern Management Made Easy with Johanna Rothman. How servant leaders support people taking responsibility. How trust, empathy, and creating a safe environment are what allows us to use agile approaches. ” The costs and fallacy of yearly planning.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops Many of my middle-management and senior leadership clients want certainty about future work. Does that sound like an agile team to you? However, managers don't create features as agile teams do. Agile teams don't assume they make a final product the first time out.

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In this article, well explore why works, how to use it effectively, and tools to bring it to life in your eLearning initiatives. Characters should reflect the diversity of your organizations workforce and illustrate the importance of problem-solving, teamwork, and leadership.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I've met a number of agile coaches recently. Even though the client asked for agile coaching, that might not be what the client needs. Even though the client asked for agile coaching, that might not be what the client needs. These questions have nothing to do with a “better agile” or “better Scrum.”

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

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. Seek outcomes over outputs : It doesn't matter how many hours people work (or where they work).

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 4, 2019

I just finished a series for my Pragmatic Manager newsletter about Agile Transformation Secrets: Part 1: Manage for Change. I wrote this series because I find that many people get a little confused about an agile transformation. They think an agile approach will work because they can predict and commit better. Please join us.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 29, 2021

Several of my clients have internal struggles about how to internally see the future of the product. The teams want to use an agile approach so they can incorporate learning. ” (Notice how all the features end on a quarter boundary?). The managers might even think this is roadmap reflects an agile approach.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

When I work with leaders about how to say No, they often say: But someone needs to do this work, right? And I have a discussion in Create Your Successful Agile Project about backlog items.). I often discover the value discussion illuminates how to create better choices—about the work and the people who could do the work.

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Clarity Consultants

MAY 10, 2023

Here’s a look at how to create an effective L&D strategy that aligns with your goals. In turn, the approach remains agile long-term, ensuring it meets your organization’s needs today and tomorrow. The post How to Create an Effective L&D Strategy appeared first on Clarity Consultants. Contact us today.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 5, 2023

link] Cross-Cultural Strategy #1: Culturally Agile Leadership Leaders increasingly face cross-cultural differences working with diverse customers and employees. Cross-cultural differences require leaders with cultural agility. Successful, culturally agile leaders can see themself through another person's perspective.

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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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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. The team decides how to solve problems.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2017

. “We all pick up on subtle cues from other people, and that affects our behaviors and actions,” says Susan David, founder of the Harvard/McLean Institute of Coaching and author of Emotional Agility. “The longer it goes on, the worse it gets in terms of how frustrated other members of the group will become.”

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Instead, I see assumptions that reveal a divide-and-conquer, and possibly a command-and-control culture, not an agile culture. Divide and Conquer is Anti-Agility I see the product owner and dev team as a divide-and-conquer approach to work. Agility requires a collaborative cross-functional team. How do they tend to decide?

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Then, offer some options for how to proceed, including changing meeting techniques. In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I recommend the team end an iteration in the middle of a week. See Part 2 for how to reduce necessary planning time. You might be using an agile approach, but it's not Scrum.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The People Leadership Fundamentals workshop results were: 98.2% To set people leaders up for success, they wanted to establish proficiency with the fundamentals of leadership. Creating a High Performing Team Explore how team motivation and performance are interrelated in delivering productivity, efficiency, and quality.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 3, 2022

The following 9 inspirational videos on leadership and change have been helpful for us and the leaders with whom we work. How do you lead change? Grit, curiosity, agility, courage and so much more. In this talk, Jason Clarke covers how to make your ideas happen and why new ideas are often met with resistance.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 27, 2017

Second, Jenna implemented a new communication habit to shift her leadership presence from cold and excessively direct to engaging and supportive. To do this, he used a 60/40 breakdown as a logic model to increase his situational agility. If he determined that a 60% focus on action was required (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

At a high level, a competency center is a collection of domain experts who are given a goal to improve agility, foster innovation, establish best practices, provide training (and mentoring), and be a communications engine. Create a leadership and development portal. What reports do we need? What data is missing?),

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

McNulty, associate director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, and Leonard Marcus, founding co-director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, wrote , “The coronavirus crisis, like every crisis, is unfolding over an arc of time with a beginning, middle, and end. Build Agility.

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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. How to Create an Exponential Mindset. Mark Bonchek.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

And yet organizational leadership all too often demonstrates outright technology torpitude. An unprepared, lethargic leadership only amplifies the consequences of a security breach. Instead of “risk management,” we propose thinking of it as “risk agility.”

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 15, 2018

Part of what makes an agile transformation difficult is the cultural change required. That’s what makes an agile transformation a journey. A client said to me, “I want the agile. The agile is good stuff: faster delivery of smaller stuff that we can get revenue for. How fast can I get it?”

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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

JUNE 17, 2021

I see too much micromanagement, even in supposedly agile organizations. As an example, when managers don't bother to learn agile measures and what they mean and instead want a Gantt chart, “because how long could it take?” ” Or, when a manager imposes a “standard” agile approach.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

A couple of weeks ago, I delivered the first version of my Free Your Agile Team talk at Agile New England. I spoke about the problem of a framework-first approach to transforming to an agile culture. I based the talk on Create Your Successful Agile Project , but I didn’t stop there.). (I Yes, there are 8 parts!).

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

But as more organizations fall prey to complex intangible risks, from unwanted disclosure due to rampant cyber threats to breaches of conduct driven by skewed incentive systems, the aperture of risk management is expanding from protecting the balance sheet to promoting ethical leadership and values-based decision making.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Let's first discuss what my colleague does and how we might name that role. Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager? ” (You might like Why an Agile Project Manager is Not a Scrum Master.). She's an agile project manager. When she manages programs, she's an agile program manager. Scrum is not her job.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2022

See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.) Also, see the Pairing, Swarming, Mobbing post so you can see how people might work together, keeping the team's WIP low. The reason the teams worked on so many projects was that senior leadership was not clear on the strategy.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

In addition to the “technical side” of project management, the author shares his ideas regarding effective stakeholder management, trust-based leadership, and effective decision-making as well as gives a variety of tools and techniques that can add value to your daily project management activities. What else will you find in this book?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. With the right approach and leadership, the world of on-demand talent promises to bring these aspirations much closer to reality.

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Epicflow

MAY 31, 2022

It’s important for aerospace engineering, as it can introduce agile engineering to a company. Finding new approaches to attracting talent: e.g., inspiring and motivating young talent with exciting tech projects (creating supersonic or autonomous aircrafts), increasing leadership involvement in talent management, etc. .

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 12, 2021

You want business agility. The teams have worked hard to change how they work. 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.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Edelman estimates that one in three employees doesn’t trust their employer — despite the fact that billions are spent every year on leadership development. Part of the problem: Our primary method of developing leaders is antithetical to the type of leadership we need. How talent management is changing.

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