Johanna Rothman

JULY 23, 2020

You can do this even if each of you is an expert on various areas or different products when you use flow efficiency. See Who's Playing Agile Schedule Games? ). The team decided to attack the build and deploy systems and see what they could automate. They spent another five hours of mobbing on those systems.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 9, 2021

I said that when we focus on individual achievements and deliverables, we ignore the agile system of work. Worse, when we reward individual achievements we prevent an agile culture. That's because agile teams learn together as they create the product. Agile Behaviors for Learning and Working Together.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

If you read my scaling agile series , you can see that becoming an agile organization requires seeing your organization as a system with a culture. You can start with teams, move to programs and the product part of the organization. You know why you want the organization to use agile approaches. Define Culture.

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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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Johanna Rothman

JULY 20, 2021

We talk a lot about empowered or self-organizing teams in the agile community. When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , we said the easiest way to create a system that worked for the team was for the team to create its own board. Agile Approaches Require Management Cultural Change.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 14, 2020

Those people suffered from several problems—most of which was based on the system of rewards in the organization (part of the context): Because of their power, they were “on the hook” to deliver something we could not deliver. Mostly because of their positional power and the reward system.). I would have disagreed.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2014

The book provides six principles that the author’s believe can make organisations more agile, competitive, and responsive by helping employees become more autonomous, cooperative and empowered. The car manufacturer tried to do this by moving its production engineers to the warranty department.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. (I I didn't like what I saw at the Agile 2019 conference.) This part is about what “Agile” or “agile” means. I understand that people want what they perceive as the value “Agile” will bring them. Why a Manifesto?

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 3, 2019

At the Influential Agile Leader workshop earlier this year, I led a session about scaling and how you might think about it. Notice that management defined this one solution to the problem as opposed to considering the entire system. I asked if any of the teams succeeded at using an agile approach at the team level.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The original signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development wanted to solve these specific problems: How can we: Bring more adaptability to software development? For example (books have affiliate Amazon links): Takeuchi and Nonaka published The New New Product Development Game in HBR in 1986. Womack and Daniel T.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

I had a great time on the Agile Coffee podcast, 75. How the reward system might offer perverse incentives. How we might ascribe value to seeing customer situations vs sitting in the office working on the product. The post Enjoy an Agile Coffee About Modern Management appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

And even if you can find an agile coaching or Scrum Master job, the pay is so terrible, you don’t want to take it. That’s because these managers think agile coaching and Scrum Mastering is a staff job, not a line job. At what level do you understand the products you’ve worked on? Those are functional skills.

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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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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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Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

AI-powered recommendation systems are another way businesses are leveraging AI-based technology to enhance the customer experience. These systems can suggest relevant products that customers are likely to enjoy. For example, Amazon might collect and analyze customer data such as product purchases and demographic information.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

One of the big problems I see with a product orientation (as opposed to a project) is in preparing for ongoing work. You might not start the next project for this product after you complete this project. However, if you want to develop a product orientation, you’ll need to consider the future. We call it technical debt.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 3, 2018

This series is about how you might move to a product-based organization. Part 1 was about how when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. Part 2 was about one possibility for moving to a product-based organization. Product managers manage the product roadmaps.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2022

I don't have just one product for my business. And I'm not a team working on just one feature set or a product. They can't give me a purchase order if I'm not in their system. They need team (including the product leader) agreements, and management agreements, and support agreements. What happened? An interruption.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 26, 2019

As I've written these product role posts, a number of you have asked about how to use component teams. You want a more agile approach to manage the interdependencies among the teams. Each team has the capability to build and test the entire product at all times. Do I need to explain the roles of the agile manager?).

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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. Again, the question is, “What do we need to do to move this work to Demo, to help move it from System Test?”

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2018

I’ve been thinking about my clients who’ve had success moving from a project-based/resource-efficiency organization to a product-based/flow efficiency organization. As they worked over the next six months (yes, this was not fast), some of the managers asked to become product owners and product managers.

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BCG

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Such reactions, however, simply translate external complexity into internal “complicatedness”—the counterproductive proliferation of cumbersome structures, processes, and systems. Complicatedness hinders productivity by creating a work environment that leaves employees disengaged and unmotivated.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Introduction to an Agile Transformation series… I’ve seen several agile transformation challenges. Since I want to address those challenges, this is a series of posts about agile transformation. The problems I’m planning to address are: Understanding why agile, why now. You might have another reason.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 23, 2020

Agile strategy can transform your organization. When Andy Frawley took on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2018, V12 faced several challenges, including business inefficiencies stemming from a recent merger and inapt product and go-to-market strategies. Agile Strategy.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve—and the team—needed to see their system. Visualize the Team's System. One of the most important ways is to see the team's system. Maybe even draw a picture of when the story/product completes. (I Measurements Helped Everyone See the System. Managers can support their teams in many ways.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 31, 2021

See the Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics series.) Not to mention your team is frantically trying to progress through all the “tickets” or “PBIs” (Product Backlog Items). Here's how I work with teams (management or product teams) to create their own boards.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

.” In my experience, when organizations want to use agile approaches or transform in some way, the managers start with the teams. Agile approaches can help teams improve, and many teams do release value faster. Agile approaches can help teams improve, and many teams do release value faster. I'm always off.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 23, 2020

important;}”] Agile strategy can transform your organization. When Andy Frawley took on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2018, V12 faced several challenges, including business inefficiencies stemming from a recent merger and inapt product and go-to-market strategies.

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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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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2018

I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. The first Possible Measurements post focuses on product throughput measurements. This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. Again, do start with your why. Do join us.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Your team has product-focused work. And, the team also has “fast” response-required, ad hoc work: Production support, when something breaks. With all these interruptions, when are you supposed to finish your product work? See Aging Fun with Drunk Agile.). Here's a scenario I see in all kinds of businesses.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The more component teams they have, the more complexity they create in the teams, in the product, and in delivery. No one can tell anything about project or product progress. Component teams are a system problem. If your product integrates other people's modules, your product architecture is even more complex.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The managers need to “deliver” more projects, products, and features. Managers pressure both the teams for faster blue feedback loops, and pressure the product people for faster red feedback loops. Agility is About the Speed of Learning. But managers don't have to create this system of work. Or the newer work?

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 12, 2023

Is your organization in search of business agility? Ask the product leaders to manage their WIP, also. Business agility requires more slack and resilience in the organization's system. You'll get the conditions you need for business agility. If so, here's one pragmatic tip: Reduce WIP (Work in Progress) everywhere.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Connecting existing systems that track applicants, onboard employees, and monitor performance can help improve your team’s productivity and performance.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

” is one of the questions I see when I work with people going through an agile transformation. This measurement question can be the prompt that changes your culture and your system. I like to see the questions reflect the why for your organization’s agile transformation. “What should I measure???”

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