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Effective Agility: Three Suggestions to Change How You and Your Team Work, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency, where we focus on watching the work, not the people. ” Even if the developers and testers are one team, I still see UX or UI teams. The more frequently you can demo, the better.

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With Agile Approaches, No Need to “Meet” or “Enforce” Deadlines

Johanna Rothman

In addition, each component team worked on any number of products, both development and support, for any given iteration. However, software product development is not construction. Software product development requires feedback loops and learning. Over months, they stopped demoing anything. And remotely!)

Agile 85
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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. See the Flow Efficiency series.) 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.). The better the team learns together, the better the product is.

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Unemployed Agilists: How to Increase Your Value to Get a Great Job, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

I assume you have some sort of functional product development expertise. If not, why are you in technical product development? If your team has a customer, you're doing some form of product development. The conditions in which you've used flow efficiency thinking to help the team and/or the managers collaborate more.

Agile 81
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Effective Agility: Three Ways to Change Your Team’s Project Culture, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

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.

Agile 81
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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

There might be a “centralized” function for these groups, but all the people developing and supporting this product are in the product line. 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.

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How WIP Insights Allow Us to Revisit Brooks’ Law About Adding People to a Team

Johanna Rothman

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.

Agile 95