Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

And even if you can find an agile coaching or Scrum Master job, the pay is so terrible, you don’t want to take it. That’s because these managers think agile coaching and Scrum Mastering is a staff job, not a line job. That’s because potential employers think these jobs are staff positions.

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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

APRIL 24, 2024

Here's a scatter plot: Yes, I realize those little dots are hard to see, so if anyone knows how to fix this in Excel, I would love to know. Now, as to how long things took? The agile project manager asks, “What percentage confidence are you comfortable with for a given item? If you want 80%, that's about two weeks.

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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 18, 2024

Do you have an overstuffed backlog the way Jenny did in Create More Success: How to Say No to “Everything” to Say Yes to What’s Necessary Now ? How can you prevent an overstuffed backlog, roadmap, or all those great ideas from interrupting your team from finishing its work? I offered “now” advice in that newsletter.

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Business Consulting Agency

AUGUST 14, 2024

Understanding common small business marketing problems and knowing how to fix them is crucial for long-term success. Small business marketing problems and how to fix them by industry experts. Without clear metrics, it’s challenging to determine what’s working and what’s not, leading to wasted resources.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

They could find the details in their defect tracking system, but they had no idea of the magnitude of the problem, where the problems lay, or how long they took to fix anything. See What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Almost all of these clients think they are using an agile approach.

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1 to 1

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), Customer Effort Score (CES), and Net Promoter Score (NPS) metrics have long been invaluable tools in the industry, but it’s critical to recognize that these metrics on their own cannot improve customer experience. How to improve CSAT. How to improve CES. What is a CSAT rating?

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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. See Throughput: Why Salary Costs Matter Less Than You Think They Do and Flow Metrics and Why They Matter for Teams and Managers for the details.) Instead, managers are supposed to coach people.

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Business Consulting Agency

AUGUST 15, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore how working with marketing consultants can enhance your marketing results and drive growth. How to improve marketing results with consultants. Without clear metrics, it’s difficult to determine what’s working and where improvements are needed. How to improve marketing results with consultants.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 16, 2019

I suggested ways to think about more agile budgeting in part 1. How do you budget your own money and time? How do you know how to bet? Also, see From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. You can use incremental funding, incremental budgeting, and lean metrics to manage the project portfolio and adapt.

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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. ) Here's how I find that data to see the project's current progress and a little into the future. Yes, Little's Law and the flow metrics rule our work. That allows everyone to focus on solving this one problem.

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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.). Tools don't help you work better—they reflect how you work now. on how to reduce dependencies between teams. Worse, they want to start with a tool. We will see.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 20, 2021

We talk a lot about empowered or self-organizing teams in the agile community. Everyone does the best job they know how to do. Instead of talking about empowerment, let's discuss how we trust teams and people to do their best job. And managers don't realize inspect-and-adapt is a necessary part of an agile culture.).

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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

MAY 14, 2024

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers. The post How to use Timeboxes instead of Batch Planning: Visible Progress or Focus to Finish appeared first on. Too often, all that “too much” rolls work over to the next sprint. That doesn't help anyone finish. Instead, make work small and finish it.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Agility and a Learning Mindset The 90-day operational road map provides guidelines, but there will inevitably be unforeseen roadblocks. This is when organizational change agility comes into play. Leading and lagging metrics should be relevant, fair, accurate, trusted, meaningful, and timely.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Here’s how US market management services can deliver improved outcomes for your business. Find out here how to achieve better results in the USA with localized support by experts. These professionals understand how to use platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook to reach your target demographic.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Here’s how US market management services can deliver improved outcomes for your business. Find out here how to achieve better results in the USA with localized support by experts. These professionals understand how to use platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook to reach your target demographic.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

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. I have more ideas and a more in-depth discussion in Create Your Successful Agile Project.).

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 9, 2020

In the agile and lean communities, we talk a lot about transparency. This image is the transparency principle we used in From Chaos to Distributed Agile Teams. And, a much more agile organization. What do agile managers do? That includes any interim measures, including cycle time metrics. People Solve Problems.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? For nearly two decades, many companies have utilized the principles within the Agile Manifesto to deliver faster time-to-market than traditional, or linear development models. Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics.

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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Here's how to dissect that bio: In Line 1, I use my first name because I want people to connect with me , as a human being. As for certifications, as I write this in 2019, the agile community has too many framework battles. Along the way, she's learned about vanity metrics and metrics that work. The flow metrics?

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Marketing experts understand how to improve your website’s ranking on search engines through effective keyword strategies, content optimization, and technical SEO adjustments. Experts know how to craft engaging blog posts, videos, and social media content that resonate with your target audience and drive traffic to your website.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

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. I have more ideas and a more in-depth discussion in Create Your Successful Agile Project.).

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

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. Let’s now review the most common applications of the technology in more detail.

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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. How to track your Goals and objectives: Tracking goals and objectives can be a daunting task for many senior leaders.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

Especially if you want to use agile approaches. See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter.) Learning technical skills with a team is relatively easy, if people can know how to get along. Yes, ask the cultural fit questions before you ask the technical skills questions. That's much more important than any one person's skills.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 21, 2024

See the flow metrics newsletter.) This cycle time series is from How to Move from Story Points and Magical Thinking to Cycle Time for Decisions. (I This is one of the effects of multitasking: unexpected defects “appear” because we're distracted. Then, the aging increases, the WIP goes up, and the throughput goes down.

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LSA Global

MAY 16, 2024

Do your leaders know how to actively involve key stakeholders during change to ensure that they are all onboard? Foster a Culture of Agility For organizational change to last, top leadership must cultivate a workplace culture that embraces change and innovation so that employees can adapt quickly to new challenges and opportunities.

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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. We didn't specifically talk about how to collaborate when writing stories, code, or tests. The place to gather team data.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2022

And a successful redesign of the customer experience requires the active involvement of your entire organization , from the ground up, in understanding at each level how to deliver the best customer experience possible, each and every time. Steps to Redesign Your Customer Experience.

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LSA Global

MAY 25, 2022

The People Team faced a few complications: The Executive Team that they needed to support was not on the same page with an agreed upon vision of of how to handle internal and external disruptions. People Team goals , roles, success metrics, and interdependencies were unclear and misaligned. Assessed the Current Situation.

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Comatch

MARCH 22, 2022

However, there are very few metrics to really measure this. And the available metrics, at least on a company level, are not very forward-looking for decision-makers or people who want to invest. Arcturus has the advantage of being agile and, acting in a focused way, can innovate quickly.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2020

Are you and your sales team agile enough? You will find out just how quickly you can pivot your sales strategy and your sales team when a crisis occurs. To learn more about how to pivot your sales strategy, download 7 Ways to Stress Test Your Sales Strategy. Is It Time to Pivot Your Sales Strategy?

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We want more collaboration and smaller stories in any agile approach. Here's how to measure cycle time: I like to use a value stream map to see the wait times and work times. And, for thinking about how to collaborate as in pairing, swarming, or mobbing. Use Cycle Time to Estimate Story Duration.

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