Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. Here are some examples: Demos, even of partially working product. It might not be a customer-worthy demo, but it's a demo of a sort.). See Three Collaboration Secrets to Create Your Agile Culture.) Tip 3: Reduce the Team's WIP.

Management 92

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2020

See and demo the product as it grows. You can't just have developers, then testers, etc. If your company can't create an agile culture, consider an incremental lifecycle, especially if you have schedule risks. Release as often as we have finished features. End the project whenever we want to. This addresses schedule risk.).

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

When organizations lack a formal innovation pipeline process, project approvals tend to be based on who has the best demo or slides, or who lobbies the hardest. This quick and dirty development can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain, and incapable of scaling.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

That's why many people were interested in the ratio of developers to testers back then. This team started off with a serial lifecycle, so they didn't even plan to have a demo until about September or so. That's when they thought the project would be done, and most of the development staff could leave to start the next project.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Not only does each team have all the skills and capabilities it needs, but the product line has all the skills and capabilities it needs to manage the culture. There might be a “centralized” function for these groups, but all the people developing and supporting this product are in the product line. That was fine.

Productivity 65

Productivity Agile Efficiency Management 65

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Because your context is unique to you, your team, project, product, and culture. And, with any luck, nudges the culture in a good direction for your team, project, and product. Why Do You Want an Agile Culture for Your Product? Notice I said the culture is for this particular product. What do you need?

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

For years, we've used several metaphors to describe software product development: People-based metaphors, such as: Man-weeks for all the humans working on a project or a product. Demo inside the organization. In product development, is it anyone's job to make a baby at work? Product development has nothing to do with birth.

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Construction Resources Productivity Development 78

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

This post is about what you can do to create an agile culture, regardless of where you are in the organization. BTW: One more thing about an agile culture: Many of the people I spoke with at the conference are convinced they need to “scale.” And, they change the culture to one that supports agile approaches.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

To account for its success, many point to America’s entrepreneurial culture, its tolerance for failure and its unique ecosystem of venture funding. They are founded on new principles and new conceptions, which in turn are painstakingly developed by research in the purest realms of science.” ” We need to move faster.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Nor do the teams demo on a regular basis. The developers and testers and anyone else on the product or feature teams. The feedback loops helped the teams create smaller features, which allowed the teams to move to weekly builds and demos. Your customers can't take your product more often than once or twice a year. Colleagues?).

Agile 58

Agile Productivity Retail Management 58

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. Here are some examples: Demos, even of partially working product. It might not be a customer-worthy demo, but it's a demo of a sort.). See Three Collaboration Secrets to Create Your Agile Culture.) Tip 3: Reduce the Team's WIP.

Management 52

Management Agile Metrics Video 52

Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Dan Lyons’s book Disrupted is an often-delightful tour through startup culture, based on the author’s experience working at online marketing firm HubSpot. Despite taking the faux-curmudgeonly attitude of an anthropologist exploring the strange world of business dudes — is a sales funnel really that much of a novelty?

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Marketing Media Advertising eBook 70

LSA Global

OCTOBER 11, 2019

And because every sales team has a unique sales strategy, culture, solution, and definition of winning, the best sales playbooks are unique to each organization and target buyer persona. Sales Culture. Do not underestimate the need for the right sales culture to meet your targets. Sales Talent.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Project lifecycles and cultures manage all those risks. And, you can decide if you want to try to change the culture. Or, you might only need informal demos to show people where you are. You might show other people internal demos. You don't have to change your culture to use any lifecycle. You'd like to experiment.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The closer to the left your products are, the more your managers might be open to changing their behaviors and the culture. TL; DR: “Stop making it harder” is a culture problem. But the demand for software developers was high and I was good. When to give into demands to demo (“I haven't tested!”)

Culture 126

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

That “team” consisted of: Three original developers, the old guard. The original architect and developers.) Six “new” developers. Some of the dysfunction was due to the culture, which discouraged collaboration. That's when the culture of experience spat in my face.

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