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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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

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. We have a standup which is more like a serial status report at least once a day for an hour. (And

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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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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.

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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? For nearly two decades, many companies have utilized the principles within the Agile Manifesto to deliver faster time-to-market than traditional, or linear development models. Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics.

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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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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

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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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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Progressus

MARCH 17, 2025

Gone are the days of static reports and manual processestodays CFOs must be agile, strategic, and tech-savvy to drive business success. Finance leaders are facing a rapidly changing landscape, where technology, AI, and automation are transforming traditional CFO responsibilities.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

Avoiding the Multiple Destination Trap with Tracking Monitoring and Reporting: As a leader, it can be challenging to ensure that everyone in your organization is on the same page when it comes to your strategic goals. This will provide the framework and structure to help you set and reach your organization's goals.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 16, 2019

I suggested ways to think about more agile budgeting in part 1. Also, see From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Separate What You Report from Your Practices. Many organizations think they are supposed to manage with the same cost accounting ideas that they report to the outside world. I didn't tell you why.

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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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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Back at Agile 2018, I had a chance to record a podcast with Bob Payne. The recording is Johanna Rothman – Agile 2018. We discussed my experience report with Mark Kilby, the geographically distributed agile teams book with Mark , and my roadmapping session. I’ve known Bob forever.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

The dispatch included disturbing and potentially illegal managerial activities, such as Fowler’s boss telling her she could be fired for reporting the behaviors. That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance.

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Recruiting Recruitment Finance Agile 140

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 31, 2017

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. Reports by customer or customer type. You might even want to restrict certain types of reports depending on the user. Here’s an example.

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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. Mike and I wrote an experience report about the writing of the guide.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Efficient product portfolio management allows a company to be agile and respond to arising market demands. risk and uncertainty management, progress analysis and reporting. In other words, it’s indicative of the company’s growth. The revenue must be reasonably invested to be doubled.

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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. Those companies that are able to hone that agility in the face of increasing external complexity will emerge with a clear competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

To prepare for and prevent the cyberattacks of the future, firms need to balance technological deterrents and tripwires with agile, human-centered defenses. Instead of “risk management,” we propose thinking of it as “risk agility.” When we say all employees have to be risk agile, we mean all.

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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. 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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. Here’s the interesting part: Every architectural layer has a middle manager who reports to the senior manager. That’s a relic of how we centralize “support” functions and report profit and loss to the outside world.

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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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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 1, 2018

It’s From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver. ” That one chapter might be all you need to create a successful distributed agile team. And, if you’ll be at Agile 2018, we will pair-deliver You Have to Say More There , an experience report. We rearranged the entire book.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

Automating routine tasks AI can automate a number of project manager’s tasks, especially those that require work with large amounts of data, e.g., creating schedules and generating reports. According to the report, power skills involve: communication, problem-solving, collaborative leadership, and strategic thinking. What’s New?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

. “For most of the last half-century — 84 percent of the time since 1966 — average wages have grown more slowly than would be predicted based on productivity and inflation growth,” The New York Times reported. Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

million employees globally over a 12-year period found, for example, that while 63% of extremely stressed employees reported above-average productivity, this number rises significantly to 87% amongst those who say they are not at all stressed. Develop mental agility. Also, a recent large-scale, longitudinal survey of over 1.5

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Energy Agile Survey Training 132

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

However, all too often they are proven to be meaningless words in an annual report. Firms should not embrace ethical leadership or risk agility out of fear of failure or mere compliance. Risk agility is a source of lasting competitive advantage.

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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

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2018

I’ve taught and written about agile distributed teams for several years. Now, I’m pair-writing a geographically distributed agile teams book with Mark Kilby. We’ll be talking about our process at Agile 2018 in an experience report. We’ve tweeted a little. We need your help. We need a title.

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Use them to: Track learner progress, completion rates, and skill acquisition Generate detailed reports on learning activities and outcomes Integrate with other business systems for comprehensive data analysis Data Visualization Tools Transform complex data into easy-to-understand visual representations.

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Comatch

JANUARY 30, 2023

If you’re not into podcasts, reading white papers and reports is another great way to brush up on your knowledge. 5) Demonstrate agility As technology continues to advance at warp speed, it’s your responsibility as a consultant to keep up with the latest advancements in the field and effectively guide your clients.

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Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2018

” Reporter Pendarvis Harshaw detailed how presumably white members were using Nextdoor’s crime and safety forum to report “suspicious” activities by African Americans and Latinos. Their first attempt at fixing the problem was simply to add a report racial profiling button. ” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

. “I’m just stressed,” he says, pulling out laptop his to finish a report. If you want to assess your own Emotional Agility, here is a link to a quiz.) Anger and stress are two of the emotions we see most in the workplace — or at least those are the terms we use for them most frequently.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 13, 2022

Dr Olayinka “Yinka” Moses , a lecturer and prominent researcher at the Victoria University of Wellington, indicates that every professional should endeavour to interpret written information, e.g. texts, emails, reports, and articles, with appropriate insight to assess their suitability for decision making.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Later, Brocade followed up with these customers to report on progress against these objectives. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. The results? They realized they had to think beyond marketing as promoting an existing product.

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