Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2021

Because the “teams” couldn't deliver something small, they didn't demo very often. Over months, they stopped demoing anything. Because no one saw any demos, management couldn't trust the teams to deliver. Then, the managers asked the teams to demo something every week instead of measuring schedule variance.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Individual work does not encourage flow efficiency thinking. See How to Start Thinking in Flow Efficiency for Better Teamwork & Throughput and What Does Your Culture Value: People “Efficiency” or Work Throughput? When was the most recent demo? That increase in WIP increases aging, which slows everything down.

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Jerry Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

The tech in the room was completely efficient. He then efficiently got me into a lavaliere microphone, did a sound check handed me a slide clicker and declared me, “Good to go.”. I’m a Master of Consultant Marketing. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel. Consulting: [link] Speaking: [link]. She was delightful.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

That's an example of how insidious resource efficiency thinking is. Show a demo of whatever you complete at the 15-minute mark. The timing: I use a 15-minute timebox, followed by not more than 5 minutes of a demo. I tend to run the simulation at least three times, for a total of 45 minutes plus up to 15 minutes of demo time.

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Jerry Fletcher

APRIL 24, 2021

The same study indicates that businesses are considered the most ethical and the most efficient and expected to lead in the New Normal. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. His consulting practice, founded in 1990, is known for on and off-line Trust-based Consultant Marketing advice that builds businesses, brands and lives of joy.

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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. Where the organization rewards resource efficiency, not flow efficiency.) Too few organizations can do that.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

The conditions in which you've used flow efficiency thinking to help the team and/or the managers collaborate more. The frequency of the team's demos, who conducted them and how, and the audience for those demos. The frequency of the team's demos, who conducted them and how, and the audience for those demos.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This team started off with a serial lifecycle, so they didn't even plan to have a demo until about September or so. I chose to add more testers and writers and increase the team's collaboration so we could see a monthly demo. Now, the tester was 6 months behind. At the time, I did not realize I reduced the WIP.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 25, 2023

That's a prime example of resource efficiency , which does not work. I needed to demo more often. The demos build trust—and might offer the team feedback on the product and the product leader feedback on the backlog. I'm not going to dignify that with a discussion. ” Aha! Rethink Three Classic Management Assumptions.)

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Product lines use flow efficiency thinking. Instead, the projects used a staged-delivery life cycle , an incremental approach with cross-functional teams and monthly demos. We integrated customer support into our demos, so they understood what their challenges would be when we released. What do you do? We weren’t perfect.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

In addition, I ask teams to show visual progress , such as in a demo. I want architecture feedback loops as early as possible in the project, which is why I want visual progress with demos. Too often, that means people work in resource efficiency, not in flow efficiency. What if you have no visual progress yet ?

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 27, 2017

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

Business resilience means everyone works in flow efficiency , not resource efficiency. You can show demos—yes, even if you don't use an agile approach. Explain flow efficiency , and why that means everyone optimizes up, at every level of the organization. That would be resilient. Yes, the managers collaborate. .”

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Demo inside the organization. The post Retire These Metaphors & Reframe the Discussion to be More Effective appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. But they learn as they: Prototype and ask for feedback. Conjecture about an architecture or an algorithm, and test their theories.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For project-centric companies such as consulting firms, architect and engineering firms or software publishers, the term project accounting takes on a whole new meaning. Providing the project team members with a personal resource board means they can view assigned tasks and prioritize them based on importance, enhancing team efficiency.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Assess how often you demo releases. You can do that if your team works in flow efficiency. Part 6, Create Your Agile Approach appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. (I see this with teams with too few testers.) Review your queued work. You might need WIP limits. That's how you create an agile culture.

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Jerry Fletcher

OCTOBER 30, 2021

You decided to put your consulting career on the front burner. Not long after that I was trying to convince the man who has now been a client for a decade that moving from doing turnarounds as a CEO or COO to Leadership and Management Consulting was significantly different and that he did not have a team in place to handle the shift.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The previous manager had focused on resource efficiency, not flow efficiency , so everyone had “their” own work. Then, senior management offered kudos when we showed a demo. Increase Team Size and Reduce WIP appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. But Little's Law always comes true.

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