Consulting Matters

MARCH 3, 2021

Follow up a survey with interviews that allow you to probe for insight, clarity and really good phrases. The missing link between great intentions and great results is often a little talked-about leadership trait - emotional agility and courage. Related Tutorial Video: "Ideas to Spark your Website Copy Clarity". Go to Amazon.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I had fun with Ian Gill on his Agility by Nature podcast: A Conversation with Johanna Rothman about the Modern Management Made Easy books. Ian was a terrific interviewer and asked me probing questions. We laughed a lot. Partly at me. I am the Queen of the Career-Limiting Conversation.). You will enjoy this one.

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Steve Shu Consulting

MAY 4, 2018

Develop interview guides according to the problem solving structure and conduct interviews with the interview guides in mind. Take raw notes roughly in line with the interview guides. In some cases the engagement team may create (up front) an entire blueprint to execute the project.

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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

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. They keep customers happier.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Years ago, Roy Osherove interviewed me about project management, agile thinking, hiring, and management. See Roy's Archived Interviews page for my interviews with him.) If you are not sure about effective management, listen to the interviews. See Johanna Rothman Interview – Agile, a Decade Later.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Last year, I was part of a geographically distributed team who wrote the Agile Practice Guide. Shane Hastie interviewed us during Agile 2017. His interview (which was a ton of fun!) is here: Johanna Rothman and Mike Griffiths on the Agile Alliance/PMI Agile Practice Guide.

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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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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Last August, back at the Agile 2018 conference, I had a chance to record a podcast with Howard Sublett. Howard is a terrific interviewer and a good friend and colleague. We spoke about Making Roadmaps More Agile. I hope you enjoy Making Roadmaps More Agile. We had a blast.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Ryan Ripley, host of Agile for Humans, interviewed Gil Broza and me in AFH 102: The Influential Agile Leader. We spoke about the workshop I lead with Gil, the Influential Agile Leader. If you are interested in helping your agile transformation, do listen to the podcast and join us for the conversation.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 9, 2018

Ryan Ripley interviewed me on his podcast, Agile for Humans 83 about Create Your Successful Agile Project. I didn’t stint on my opinions or on my experience with agile teams. I don’t find it useful in an agile project unless you use incremental funding. We had a blast. That’s me.

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Instead: Conduct periodic reviews of L&D initiatives and their impact on business performance Be prepared to adjust or discontinue programs that aren’t delivering expected results Stay agile and responsive to changing business needs and emerging skill requirements Feedback Loops Implement systems to gather and act on feedback from various (..)

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2020

We collaborated with LucidMeetings to create this wonderful new class about hiring: How to Discover, Interview, and Hire Amazing Remote People. The content is based on these books: From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Guidelines for interview duration and the interview matrix. Hiring Geeks That Fit.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

In this episode of the Leadership Vision podcast, we sit down with Dennis Stevens, an enterprise Agile coach and founder of OrgWright with 30 years of experience. We discuss the evolving relevance of Agile principles and practices, particularly in the context of the post-pandemic business world.

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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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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In How Product Goals Make it Easier to Create Sprint Goals and Reduce Feature Factories, Part 1 , I started responding to Tom's interview question. Let's start with the reason we plan anything in an agile approach. ” All agile approaches limit WIP (Work in Progress). ” There's a reason I say, “next bit.”

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

I interviewed more than 50 people from underrepresented groups who have made it in the tech industry, asking them to help me understand why they weren’t applying for my open tech jobs. In order for our team to match the diversity of America , we’d need 13.4% Native American, 18.1% Latinx, and 50% women employees.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

To explore this question, we interviewed senior marketing executives across dozens of top brands. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

Standard agile approaches like Scrum and SAFe work pretty well for that. In the past couple of years, IBM Global Technology Services undertook its own agile transformation. I interviewed the leaders of many fabled Scrum companies, agile certification firms, and some Big 4 consultants, but the advice we got was all product-focused.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 5, 2024

To develop this understanding, product managers actively engage with customers through surveys, interviews, and user testing. Adopt an Agile Mindset The ability to embrace an agile mindset is a hallmark of great product managers.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Assess To ensure the design was highly relevant to the target audience, their bosses, and the organization as a whole, we conducted the following training needs assessment : Held 360-degree interviews with key stakeholders. Improving situational agility. Building leadership team trust and confidence in relationships.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Back in Part 1 of this series, I explained all the problems I saw with this interview question: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I recommend the team end an iteration in the middle of a week. The interview question I started with.)

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Forum participants will have an opportunity to learn from inspirational project management leaders as well as attend masterclasses revealing the aspects of delivering sustainable projects, Agile transformation, application of technologies, and more. is the largest Agile conference in Central Europe. PMO London 2024 June, 18-19.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

For example, one MNC we interviewed would give all local teams price lists fixed in USD and determined by U.S. HQ without consulting them. The firm’s Latin American clients, who had seen substantial local currency depreciation hit their own performance, consequently faced substantially higher prices for the same product.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Kassir Hussain, former director of Connected Home, told us: “In a space that can often be confusing and frustrating to consumers, our focus on regular user interviews, meetings, tests, and demos allowed us to build a product that was simple, easy to use, and addressed real consumer needs.” Help Employees Embrace Agility.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

To understand what digital leaders do differently, Korn Ferry not only drew on broad research into business change but also interviewed leaders who are driving transformation at some of the world’s most successful organizations. Agile organizations are connected organizations. Connectivity.

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On the Brink Podcast

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

I was introduced to Anthony Willoughby by Diana Wu David after our podcast interview. This led him to found the Nomadic School of Business, whose c oncept of a nomadic mindset helps leaders and their teams achieve clarity, purpose and agility. Learn how a nomadic mindset helps you see where you are going!

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2017

We answered this question by interviewing freelancers in a wide range of industries — from tech to advertising. And what we found in our interviews was an interesting reinforcement of our prior work on employer branding and agile talent. In our interview, Charles, a U.S.-based Andy Molinsky.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

The more work you ask a candidate to do—at any point in the interview—the more you're asking for free work or consulting. Especially if you want to use agile approaches. Mark Kilby and I developed a self-study Remote Interviewing workshop you might like. See Can Auditions Be Too Much of a Good Thing ?)

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BCG

MAY 5, 2016

Imagine that these giants are quickly followed by a multitude of agile new entrants. Imagine that the giants unleash their brand, technology, data, and scale to bring new value propositions to these individual customers.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 2, 2019

Here's how I think of the various agile product roles: product managers, product owners, and business analysts. I do not like “Chief Product Owner” because I don't like “Chief” anything in an agile approach. BAs might interview customers and potential customers to help everyone understand what's going on.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Organizes the interview in ways that clarify the ideas. Listen to our conversation on Modern Management Made Easy with Johanna Rothman. I started listening to Scott's podcast a couple of years ago. I regularly listen because he: Selects people I've never heard of before. Makes his guests sound smart. I always learn something from his podcast.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

A colleague, Tom, told me about this question he received in an interview: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. and Create Your Successful Agile Project.) I am sure I'm not the only person who's seen this problem in agile teams, especially when they use Scrum.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 3, 2021

On the Maintainable podcast, Robby Russell often interviews people about technical issues. We discussed the Modern Management Made Easy books among other topics: A little about the origins of agile approaches. Not this time! The issue of “too many meetings” and why they might need to be called something else.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Tom Cagley interviewed me for his Software Process and Measurement Cast (podcast) a couple of weeks ago and the podcast is live. See SPaMCAST 468 – Johanna Rothman, Create Your Successful Agile Project. We had a blast. I ranted and raved (as I am wont to do) and had a great time discussing some of the chapters in the book.

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QEmploy

MAY 9, 2019

Interviews have been conducted with clients and consultants in order to give a realistic and broad outlook. It was also said in our client interviews that there are too many brokers out there. The terms, conditions and contract details are taken up during the interview process. This is where agile methodologies come in.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The People Leadership Fundamentals workshop results were: 98.2% Job Relevance 98.4% Satisfaction 151% Knowledge Gain 95.5% 1×1 Executive Coaching Targeted 1×1 coaching sessions relevant to the participant’s learning goals and identified skill gaps with a the objective of raising awareness and closing key gaps.

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