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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Agile Energy Retail Case Interview 132

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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Agile How To Groups Efficiency 135

Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 17, 2023

I'm reviewing experience report proposals for the XP 2023 conference. I want to read this report! Experience reports allow us to learn from each other, from the successes and the failures and everything in between. And experience reports tell the story of those experiences. That's the structure of an experience report.

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Conference Report How To Agile 23

Johanna Rothman

JULY 29, 2021

Several of my clients have internal struggles about how to internally see the future of the product. 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. What can you do?

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. You might even call them/use them as product teams. You might wonder about organizing all the work as product work. The “Typical Product Development Organization” shows the kind of organization I see most often.

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Productivity Agile Culture Efficiency 86

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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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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Agile Survey Company Data 86

Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2020

In a conversation about product quality, the product owner said, “If the testers found the problems faster, we would be done faster.” That's because product development is a system of work. If you pressure one piece of the system and don't accommodate that pressure elsewhere, you create bad products.

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Productivity Management Engineering Software 106

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. is here: Johanna Rothman and Mike Griffiths on the Agile Alliance/PMI Agile Practice Guide. We now have tools to make collaboration at a distance fun and productive.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 31, 2017

The product managers and project portfolio managers depend on the team finishing everything the team commits to. You might want “Reports” in your product. Reports often include searching by some form of type. You might want: Reports by product. Reports by geography. Part 7: Summary.

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Agile Report Productivity Data 103

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In Part 1 , I suggested that when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. In this part, I’ll discuss an option for a product-oriented organization. Consider a Product-Oriented Organization. That includes product ownership. How Many Managers Do You Need?

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Productivity Agile Efficiency Management 83

Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

For example, if your goal is to increase sales, your L&D programs might focus on enhancing sales techniques, product knowledge, or customer relationship management skills. Productivity metrics: Assess changes in output per employee or team efficiency. Output per employee: Track changes in individual or team productivity levels.

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Metrics ROI Training Training 147

Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

” is one of the questions I see when I work with people going through an agile transformation. I like to see the questions reflect the why for your organization’s agile transformation. A simplistic qualitative measure of organizational agility). The teams could report on their lead time. Lead time trends).

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 16, 2019

I suggested ways to think about more agile budgeting in part 1. I evaluate the plan—my products, services, and clients—on a regular basis. I can change that mix because I can produce some of my products in under a month. Also, see From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. I didn't tell you why.

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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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Energy Agile Productivity Talent 134

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. The product owner is not part of the team. Too many varied tasks might mean the product owner treats the team as if it's a feature factory. More below.)

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Productivity Agile Interviews Report 81

Johanna Rothman

APRIL 18, 2024

Implement or Fix Customer-Facing Problems When customers report problems, how does your organization react? Remember this: If your customers want to use your product, make it easy for them to do so. Customers will not wait forever for you to fix problems in your product. ” Let me take each of these in order.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

CEB reports that the average organization has undergone five enterprise-wide changes in the past three years and 73% expect change to accelerate (URL: [link] ). In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Change agility requires an answer to the question “Why?”,

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Agile Efficiency Culture Trends 135

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 30, 2022

While this distributor reports monthly income, they only pay once a quarter. This is an agile way of working that does not require a lot planning and preparation. The series: How I Manage My Product Development: Ease with Continuous Flow (Day 1). And the writing workshop will make more money sooner than the book will.

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Development Productivity Video Agile 98

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

In the context of project management, a roadmap can span across multiple timelines for continuous product development. Why do you need a product roadmap? A roadmap is crucial for visualizing a product’s strategy that is aligned with your business goals, while incorporating customer insights for future developments. Product Goal.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

At a high level, a competency center is a collection of domain experts who are given a goal to improve agility, foster innovation, establish best practices, provide training (and mentoring), and be a communications engine. What reports do we need? “What” questions (What are the results? What data is missing?),

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Training Training Data Agile 129

BCG

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

In their attempts to reduce uncertainty and reestablish control amid this new complexity, companies tend to introduce new reports, new rules, and new processes. Complicatedness hinders productivity by creating a work environment that leaves employees disengaged and unmotivated.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 22, 2025

(All the places where you market or promote your product to your ideal customer.) Activation: Does the customer use the product? Or how does the customer use the product? Retention: Does the customer continue to use the product? Revenue: How do you make money with this product? That's a move from OpEx to CapEx.

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Metrics Management How To Agile 97

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We would reward managers by their span of service instead of control, part 3 , stop organizing by function, and move to something that looks like a product-based organization? That culture helps managers learn how to serve the people and the products. Product Organizations Require Behavior Changes. Thinking about Refactoring.

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Epicflow

APRIL 30, 2025

Information systems have a determining impact on organizational performance by enhancing overall productivity, profitability, and resilience. Strategic portfolio management is the process of selecting, prioritizing, and managing a companys projects, portfolios, programs, or products. What is Strategic Portfolio Management Software?

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Software Tools Management Trends 130

Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

The current and rising levels of stress in the workplace should be cause for concern, as there is a direct and adverse relationship between negative stress, wellness and productivity. In the same study, 77% of extremely stressed employees also reported above-average levels of fatigue, and early warning signs of longer-term burnout.

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Energy Agile Survey Training 132

Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

These systems can suggest relevant products that customers are likely to enjoy. For example, Alibaba, a leading Chinese e-commerce company, could conduct sentiment analysis of customer reviews of individual products and services, and use these insights to modify existing products and develop new ones.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. Later, Brocade followed up with these customers to report on progress against these objectives. This includes the product, the buying process, the ability to provide support, and customer relationships over time. The results?

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Lazy Project Manager: How to Be Twice as Productive and Still Leave the Office Early by Peter Taylor The Lazy Project Manager is based on the idea that lazy people always try to find easier ways to do what they have to. So, focusing on 20% of the most important work will result in 80% outcomes.

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Management Handbook Case Study Case Studies 29

Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

My company didn't want to pay me overtime so I had to only report 40 hours. I asked them: did they want products done or timesheets done? The product was more important.). In Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation , I explained the desire for capitalization. I could fix the second problem.

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Data Agile Software Trends 114

Johanna Rothman

JULY 16, 2019

While the organization might use products and product lines, the software people work in projects. I've said in the past that as soon as we have more work than teams to do the work, we need to switch from one product to another. Imagine one product with three releases: Projects 1, 2, 3. Products vs Value Streams.

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Productivity Software Report Engineering 65

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category. Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers.

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Media Fashion Agile Talent 134

Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

You want to present a talk, workshop, experience report at a conference. (Or, I got the idea for this series from Chris Murman's talk at Agile 2019 and from all my shepherding for the Agile 20xx and XPxx conferences. (If For example, I only offer talks for people using agile approaches or trying to. Not for work.

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Conference Agile Consulting Examples 89

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The model has been used in other industries and has parallels to the “teams of teams” approach in the agile method of operating that has become so popular. Across those fundamentals, eight key topics are reported every day. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.”

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System Healthcare Metrics Report 130

Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

In the face of this dynamic, it isn’t enough to create new products and services. Unless we also design new ways of talking about ideas and exploring the future, those product and service innovations will never be embraced by the organization and never make their way out into the world. Designing the New Product.

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Banking Data Productivity Video 132

Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2016

One-on-one meetings with direct reports often feel more hurried and disorganized than they need to be. How can you make the meetings more productive and collaborative? What do you need to change as the manager and what do you need to ask your direct report to do differently as well? Ask your direct report to do the same.

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