Tom Spencer

APRIL 11, 2025

In todays fast-paced business environment, successful product development demands more than just great ideas and cutting-edge technology. It requires collaboration, agility, and a deep understanding of the customer. This article explores the importance of cross-functional teams and how they drive successful product development.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

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. Rather than debating the advantages of agile teams, why not start demonstrating them? Perhaps my journey to agile will help you figure out how to begin your own.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

By providing real-time insights and streamlining complex workflows, project portfolio management tools empower organizations to handle diverse initiatives with precision and agility. Now that we know what features are essential for PPM tools, lets consider the top 15 project portfolio solutions available on the market today.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The managers don't believe the teams need product owners, so the teams don't have POs. Those outcomes can help teams decide which agile approach(es) to start with and adapt. Let's start with who wants the teams to use an agile approach. Who Wants the Teams to Use an Agile Approach? They're having trouble with Scrum.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

Read further to learn about the top winners in the market and get tips on choosing the right tool for your organization. Support and training providing tools, templates, and training to project teams to enhance their productivity and adherence to standards. Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid). What is a PMO?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2024

When companies leverage the diverse talents of their Asian workforce, they can evolve into more global, agile, and powerful hubs of innovation and growth.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

By providing real-time insights and streamlining complex workflows, project portfolio management tools empower organizations to handle diverse initiatives with precision and agility. Now that we know what features are essential for PPM tools, lets consider the top 15 project portfolio solutions available on the market today.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

More of my clients say they want business agility. Yet, we don't share a common definition of business agility. Actions matter when it comes to business agility. Since managers create and refine the culture, they can create an environment that supports business agility. An Environment that Supports Business Agility.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

By Ayman Sayed, President and Chief Product Officer, CA Technologies. But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? We’re all striving to deliver better products faster to meet customer needs in the marketplace and stay ahead of the competition.

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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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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

That’s our product, and that’s our passion. It launched a product, gathered feedback, and kept iterating as it scaled and added users. At one end is a customer pain point or a potential new market. Your data isn’t even in the picture. We are simply not interested in any of it.”

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 29, 2020

important;}”] A conversation on agile strategy and opportunity with Andy Frawley and Bob Weiler. Market Realities. The current environment requires agility and agility, Bob Weiler reminds us, starts with market realities. Understanding these market realities is critical as they are what highlight opportunity.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 5, 2024

In the competitive, fast-paced, and ever-evolving landscape of technology and business, the role of a product manager is pivotal. A great product manager is not just a project coordinator, they are visionaries, strategists, and leaders. As such, effective communication is the backbone of successful product management.

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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. ” Or mine, “Explore and support effective ways of managing product development.”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

In Today’s Digital Economy, Agile Practices Can’t Be Limited to Just the IT and Development Realms. By Surya Panditi, SVP and GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. Agile practices have a vital part to play in the rapid delivery and continuous maintenance of software-driven products and services.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2021

He thought agile approaches would work to “meet” and “enforce” deadlines. The company had deadlines because it wanted to meet market demands. Does each team focus on just one product at a time? Schedule Variance Does Not Make Sense for Software Products. Why do you have deadlines?

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

By investing in L&D, organizations can close skills gaps, improve employee engagement, and enhance their overall competitiveness in the market. L&D programs help organizations keep up with industry trends, adopt new technologies, and respond to changing market demands.

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Clarity Consultants

JUNE 30, 2023

This is because they are better equipped to handle tasks, solve problems, and deliver high-quality work–all of which impact organizational productivity. The more self-assured they feel, the more motivated they will be to work hard, which of course, also increases productivity. For some, this can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 2, 2019

We have many words for people who shepherd the business value of a product. Here's how I think of the various agile product roles: product managers, product owners, and business analysts. Here's how I think of the various agile product roles: product managers, product owners, and business analysts.

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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 25, 2019

Some of my clients have struggled with their project governance as they move to agile approaches. Then, assumptions change, needs change, the market changes, and the information has little to no value. This kind of measurement is antithetical to agile principles. Agile approaches allow us to do that.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2018

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Maximize engineering productivity.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 3, 2019

I started this series discussing the issue of the various product-based roles in an agile organization. I suggested a product value team because one person becomes a bottleneck. One person is unlikely to shepherd the strategy and the tactics for a product. Can Your Customer Be Your Product Owner? You don't want to.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 28, 2019

You've got interdependencies across the organization for a given project or program to release a product. You need enough insight or prediction to start the marketing campaign or to create training videos or product documentation. You need some kind of milestone criteria so you know you can complete the entire product.

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Epicflow

MAY 31, 2022

In today’s changing and uncertain world, aerospace engineering companies are seeking the ways to design and develop new products faster and with less cost. So, every company that wants to stay competitive in the market must digitalize its processes sooner or later. . Digital thread. Additive manufacturing (3D printing) .

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 9, 2024

I was on the Agile Uprising podcast this past Sunday, discussing my most recent book. Some of what we discussed: That managers want agility but do not care about any agile methods or frameworks. While we might think “agile” is another project organization method—or lifecycle—it's not. See (and hear!):

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Chad Barr

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Interestingly, the space bar and the backspace key hold the top spots, and they reveal powerful lessons for business and marketing. Similarly, in business and marketing, creating space allows for growth, innovation, and clarity. This is critical in both business and marketing. Business Lesson : Mistakes are inevitable.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

By Surya Panditi, GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. So organizations today are staying ahead of the curve by scaling agile and building agility into everything they do, and extending agile techniques and practices across teams, teams-of-teams, non-IT organizations and even across the business as a whole.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

I started asking if you actually need an agile approach in Part 1 and noted the 4 big problems I see. Part 2 was why we need managers in an agile transformation. Part 4 was about how “Agile” is meaningless and “agile” is an adjective that needs to be applied to something. That would be resilient.

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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. Team-based “agile” is not enough.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Or, the product owner thinks you can do more. Agile approaches are not about doing more. Agile approaches encourage us to do the least we need to do, to the best of our abilities, to get feedback, so we can do it again. See Agile Transformation: Practice Change, Part 2 for an example.). The MVP is not the entire product.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 15, 2023

After I spoke with Chad and Jeff on the previous podcast, Deep Dive into Successful Independent Consulting with the Agile Wire , we spoke all about the idea of building products, starting with consulting-based products. See Building the Right Product with Johanna Rothman. In the meantime, enjoy our discussion.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

That would make his product unaffordable for most of his core customers, and they would almost certainly switch to his competitors’ cheaper alternative. of those in these markets said that currency volatility posed the greatest material risk to their pricing strategy during 2014 and 2015. There was no good solution.

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