Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 10, 2024

I see many teams and team members who say, “Agile stinks. ” When I ask people what's happening, they say: We're doing an agile death march because someone else already told us what we have to do and the date it's due. And don't get me started on how coaches tend to do life coaching instead of support for agility.)

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2024

In addition, their focus on effective resource allocation, stakeholder engagement, and change management contributes to enhanced operational efficiency, increased agility, and improved project outcomes. One of a CPO’s tasks is to ensure optimal resource allocation across a company’s critical projects.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. Can you create an agile culture for your team even if you can't change how the organization works? 1,2 and so on.

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Agile Culture Efficiency Metrics 81

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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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics. High-performing teams spend 14% more time checking their progress against strategic goals by reviewing key metrics and shifting resources accordingly.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

Project managers can utilize the power of AI by leveraging project/resource management tools where the technology is incorporated. 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.

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Now, it's time for Economies of Scale and how that ties into resource efficiency thinking. Resource Efficiency Thinking Traps Many Managers And I said the managers were not stupid. They used resource efficiency to make project portfolio decisions. Resource efficiency focuses on each person's contribution to the whole.

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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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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” It ensures alignment of goals, resources, and people.

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System Healthcare Metrics Report 130

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

That takes time and resources – and it also requires bringing creative thinking to unfamiliar problems. The metrics also changed. The result is an ability to quickly adjust and re-allocate resources. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development.

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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. Agility and scale rarely co-exist in the design of the organizational operating model. So why is it so hard to create networked, agile teams in large, global product companies? The global/local tension.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

By tracking a metric, they can sell optimized wait times (elevators as a service) rather than banks of elevators based on price. WhatsApp founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton launched their company with a straightforward proposition: They would create a messaging app that people wanted to use without bombarding them with advertising.

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Productivity Engineering Accenture Banking 132

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

what this produces for the business and for shareholders — the critical outcome metrics by which the organization will be judged. They are questions about: why the organization exists and what its purpose is. what it offers (and does not offer) its customers, and how and why this offer delivers value to these customers.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

As for certifications, as I write this in 2019, the agile community has too many framework battles. Here are some example bios, specifically for non-consultants who don't have a ton of experience: Jill Jones, currently a technical lead for BigCloudServiceProvider, experiments with agile approaches in teams and across the organization.

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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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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies. Geographic Zones (consolidated P&L, plus infrastructure).

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Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

Typically they end up as an app or a custom feature in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Yet it also gives you an agile way to work: you don’t waste time or dollars when there are no results, and you develop a fast-fail mentality to learn what works and what doesn’t. Shift 3: See people as multipliers of value.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Things Always Change, and Strategies Must Be Agile Enough to Keep Pace By the time most strategies make their way from the board room to the frontline, things have changed. Agility in strategy means that companies are always in motion, analyzing performance, making course corrections, and seizing new opportunities as they emerge.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

Especially if you want to use agile approaches. See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter.) More Reading and Resources See these books: Hiring Geeks That Fit Manage Your Job Search I stopped writing under the HTP category on my site, but the archive is still there, and is evergreen.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We want more collaboration and smaller stories in any agile approach. That's often the case that the managers ask team members to do work that's not the team's work, or if the managers believe in resource efficiency. In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I recommend against velocity or using story points.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. The center orchestrates, coordinates, provides resources, and facilitates alignment and connection.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 27, 2025

Teams In general, teams consist of two or more people who must consistently exchange resources and rely upon each other to successfully achieve a shared objective. What are the teams key objectives, desired outcomes, success metrics , and essential tasks required to deliver the necessary impact?

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How To Talent Agile Efficiency 60

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In follow-up meetings with her direct reports, they identified high-impact work — and killed off less-important tasks to free up resources. As an example, the CEO had been discussing the importance of driving more agile decision making. And they have significantly more impact.

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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. ) Too often, that means people work in resource efficiency, not in flow efficiency. Yes, Little's Law and the flow metrics rule our work. If you can use a Gantt chart and you find it valuable, that's fine.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Yet most strategic initiatives fail to deliver, and they do so at great cost in time and resources. You invest substantial resources, creative time, and energy in designing the right strategy. 3: Dedicate and mobilize the right resources. Strategy delivery doesn’t just happen automatically once it is designed.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

The work of support and operating functions like finance, marketing, supply chain and human resources must change to leverage these technologies, and do so in a way that serves enterprise objectives, as well as the needs of individual businesses. Hence, regardless of the structure the common complaint of “silo thinking.”

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LSA Global

APRIL 1, 2024

You will know that you have more work to do if people are uncertain about shared goals or feel pulled in different directions by conflicting priorities or misaligned cultural expectations and metrics for success. Strong strategic alignment creates constructive collaboration for a company to perform at its peak. Is your strategy strong enough?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In an agile and experimental process, the team participated in reimagining this new role, critiqued it and iterated on it, helping them feel that they were leading change rather than being subject to it. In a world still dominated by fee for service, it is often a challenge to sustainably fund new business models. Step 7: Measure progress.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

We know from our organizational alignment research that, while all growth plans require access to financial and people resources, there are various ways and different paces to invest in growth. Growth does not happen without the right people in the right roles with the right resources and mindset to innovate, act, and scale at hyper speed.

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LSA Global

MARCH 3, 2025

High levels of leadership misalignment create organizational churn and dysfunction: teams drift, messages are mixed, priorities clash, agendas diverge, resources are misappropriated, performance declines, and employees suffer. Are able to better track and assess shared performance metrics tied to overall business strategies.

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LSA Global

MAY 25, 2022

People Team goals , roles, success metrics, and interdependencies were unclear and misaligned. Allocating resources to increase confidence and motivation that the next 90-days make sense. New strategies, competitive pressures, leaders, products, and approaches. To create executive team alignment, LSA Global: 1.

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Talent Agile Construction Metrics 36

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The art of resource allocation (it is not a science!). Defining and tracking success metrics. Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart. They also have more influence and authority over company resources.

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Productivity Management Engineering Case Interview 71

LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Before hiring more sales reps, pushing specific sales activities, or investing in sales enablement technology, smart sales leaders invest the time and resources to deeply understand the market in which they operate in. Only invest time and resources with clients that appreciate and need what you have to offer.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Before hiring more sales reps, pushing specific sales activities, or investing in sales enablement technology, smart sales leaders invest the time and resources to deeply understand the market in which they operate in. Only invest time and resources with clients that appreciate and need what you have to offer.

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LSA Global

MAY 16, 2024

Provide them with the tools, resources, and authority they need to drive change initiatives forward and support their teams through the transition. Can your leaders encourage the agile mindsets at work required to successfully navigate change ? Are your leaders consistently and visibly walking the talk?

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