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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The frustrations with current planning practices intersect with another fundamental managerial trend: organizational agility. One of the key principles underpinning team-based agility is that teams autonomously decide their priorities and where to allocate their own resources.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 28, 2018

Many new-to-agile teams use some form of iteration-based agile approach. Back in Time You Spend in Agile Meetings (near the bottom of the post), I enumerated all the possible meetings. When the team reduces its WIP, the team might be able to reduce the number of meetings. Often, in the form of Scrum.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2021

One of my clients wants to use shared services “teams” as they start their agile transformation. The organization wonders why no one can “meet” a deadline. Agile approaches break the idea of a “shared service” model of people. ” Don't use an agile approach.

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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. It supports Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban, ensuring adaptability to different workflows.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2019

I spoke at Agile 2019 last week. The great time was meeting and reconnecting with people. Here are my thoughts and where I think the “agile” industry is headed. “Agile” is a silver bullet and will fix everything—as long as the teams do it. Do You Need an Agile Approach?

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Effective Managers

JUNE 19, 2024

As we navigate this post-pandemic landscape, it’s clear that the future of leadership hinges on embracing change and evolving to meet new demands. This transformation involves not only adjusting to new realities like remote work and digital transformation but also developing key traits such as agility and empathy.

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Epicflow

JUNE 8, 2022

Agile has become the most popular methodology in recent years and has proven its efficiency for millions of companies already so nobody has any doubts about it today. Being agile means being flexible enough to adequately and timely react to any alterations of your project environment and any external changes that may happen at any time.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 25, 2018

Whenever I teach agile approaches, I discuss the possible meetings a team might choose. They start adding up all the meeting time and say, “That’s a lot of meetings.” You might have these meetings: A retrospective once every two weeks. A backlog refinement meeting every two weeks.

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Harvard Business

MAY 27, 2016

Stand-up meetings have become a routine part of the workday in many organizations, spread largely by the adoption of agile and other innovative management methods. The phrase “stand-up” is literal—participants remain standing for the duration of the meeting—and the reason is speed. Stu Heinecke.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2023

Over the last two decades, technology developers have utilized the agile methodology to work more effectively. As sales teams are stretched thin and face change initiatives and strategy shifts, using the sprints made popular by agile can help them focus on priorities that will drive results.

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Epicflow

JULY 5, 2024

The analysis of these factors will allow you to choose a tool that will meet your organization’s needs, facilitate effective resource management and improve project outcomes. It helps companies plan, allocate, and monitor the utilization of various types of resources — personnel, equipment, and meeting rooms.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2020

A simple framework to manage chaos, get along better, and reduce stress.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Ron Jeffries, Matt Barcomb, and several other people wrote an interesting thread about prescriptive and non-prescriptive approaches to team-based agile. If you don’t want to read the entire thread, here is a summary: People often need help with their agile approach. That’s why we have the agile values and principles.

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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. It supports Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban, ensuring adaptability to different workflows.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Are you trying to make an agile framework or approach work? Maybe you've received a mandate to “go agile.” Or, maybe you're trying to fit an agile framework into your current processes—and you've got a mess. I've seen plenty of problems when people try to adopt “agile” wholesale.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2024

I started this series by discussing why managers didn't perceive the value of agile coaches and Scrum Masters in Part 1, resulting in layoffs.) That's why I then asked people to review their product-oriented domain expertise and agile-focused domain expertise in Part 3. Especially, Agile is Not a Silver Bullet.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

” It's too hard to find time to meet. We can't find a place to meet. If we're back in the office, we have no meeting rooms. Or, we have some remote people, so we need several “places” to meet and the technology to support all those places. about meetings. We all have them. Most of us hate them.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 11, 2025

It requires collaboration, agility, and a deep understanding of the customer. Cross-functional teams can more effectively brainstorm, prototype, and iterate on product ideas, leading to more innovative solutions that better meet the needs of users and the market. Zuhair Imaduddin is a Senior Product Manager at Wells Fargo.

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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. This kind of measurement is antithetical to agile principles. We can see it in an agile approach, because the more time we spend estimating up front, the longer it takes us to deliver that first increment of value. Not planned work.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 18, 2025

In todays fast-paced digital world, businesses must be agile, innovative, and customer-centric. By leveraging insights gained from data analytics, companies can make smarter decisions, create products that better meet customer needs, and ultimately stay ahead of the competition.

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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? We’re all striving to deliver better products faster to meet customer needs in the marketplace and stay ahead of the competition. Read more from CA Technologies: The Key to Agile Success? It’s All About the Data.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2023

Organizational innovation is fueled through effective and agile creation, management, application, recombination, and deployment of knowledge assets and know-how. Leveraging a company’s proprietary knowledge is critical to its ability to compete and innovate, especially in today’s volatile environment.

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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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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid). Jira Jira is a widely used project management software, particularly well-suited for Agile teams in the IT sector. However, as team sizes grow and project complexities increase, Basecamps basic collaboration tools may not fully meet the demands of larger, cross-functional teams.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 11, 2019

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. See a ton more about this role in Create Your Successful Agile Project.) Scrum is not her job. That's fine.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 29, 2021

The teams want to use an agile approach so they can incorporate learning. The managers might even think this is roadmap reflects an agile approach. There's nothing about this roadmap that's agile. You can decide if you need an agile approach. See What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? What can you do?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 17, 2020

A meeting tool anyone can start. In From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , Mark and I discussed the two competing theories of communication. Five, you need a meeting tool anyone can start. If only one person can start the meeting tool and that person gets sick, no one can meet. A sense of humor.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 12, 2021

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

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Epicflow

APRIL 30, 2025

Analyze available features and decide whether they meet your companys needs. Its designed to meet the needs and address the challenges of complex project environments with a shared resource pool. need to be improved.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 3, 2021

What will turn website visitors into discovery meetings and discovery meetings into signed contracts is speaking their language (not yours.). The missing link between great intentions and great results is often a little talked-about leadership trait - emotional agility and courage.

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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

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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Clarity Consultants

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

That agility to meet the demands of the market head on are what make companies successful. Your ability to stay flexible, especially in your efforts for Learning and Development, are critical to allowing your business to have those quick-twitch reflexes to react and operate across different organizational landscapes.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 15, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. This part is about how people want a recipe, The Answer, for how to get better at “Agile.” ” Before we can address what an answer might be, your need to know your why for an agile approach. Can “Agile” deliver on that?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 28, 2019

Agile and Lean Program Management , and in Create Your Successful Agile Project. When people outside of technology use agile approaches, they can start their work before the product is done. When you assess the milestone criteria on a regular basis, you might learn early that you will not meet the criteria by the date you want.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 17, 2020

Every single person in a leadership position struggles with (agile) team transparency. When we ask for more meetings, we interrupt people just as they might have an hour or two to work. Standups are not for serial status meetings. That kind of control is incongruent with agile leadership. I think they're correct.)

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