Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

That's why Part 1 of this series discusses your value and what managers want and need. That part discusses why managers see agile coaches and Scrum Masters as staff positions, not line jobs. I assume you have some sort of functional product development expertise. If not, why are you in technical product development?

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2022

Not the thinking and learning that go into the deliverables where you end up with something demo-able, if not usable.” However, they don't deliver value, have team-based planning, a review/demo, or a retrospective. For example, I used month-long iterations for most of the projects and programs I managed up until about 2003 or so.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

” It depends on how your lifecycle manages feedback loops and learning, how collaborative the team is, and how much WIP the team has. Each Lifecycle Manages Feedback Loops Differently Brooks wrote the original version of The Mythical Man-Month in 1975, based on the 1960s IBM 360 project. .” Brooks also said on p.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In the olden days, the project manager with the help of the team ranked.) See and demo the product as it grows. Manage the project portfolio more easily because the project releases value more often. You can't just have developers, then testers, etc. Staged Delivery assumes we will release. This addresses schedule risk.).

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Are you a manager accustomed to Management by Walking Around and Listening (MBWAL) ? You have an opportunity to work differently as a manager. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. As a manager, you can ask teams to collaborate. You can use MBWAL with collocated teams.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 5, 2021

Many managers want to know the answers to these questions: When will we see the first bit? ” Many managers now realize they don't have to see everything to get an idea of where the team is going with the product. Your team manages its WIP. Regardless of how your team works, you can demo something inside of a week or two.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

might demo the feature. That defect escaped all your checklists, approvals, and demos. That's because they knew the customers would find problems the development teams had not found. But the development teams? That's because the development teams worked by phase, not by feature. It's the same when I pair.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 28, 2018

I mentioned how you could integrate the demo work into an iteration if you create a column for the demo. Here’s a picture of how you might create a kanban with a Demo state, just before the Done column. Here’s how you walk this board: Start at the column just before Done, the Demo column.

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Jerry Fletcher

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

I was zooming today with the founder of an organization using Mighty Networks as the software they use to manage their expanding community. Here’s how I stay connected and still manage to keep my business thriving: I plan my weeks to assure blocks of time for clients. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. Lots of content.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 25, 2023

I also said I don't blame the managers for wanting to know. But instead of placating the managers and trying to estimate, consider starting with this question: How do you plan to use this information? Now, we get to the meat, where the manager needs to know to feel good about the development. I needed to demo more often.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The senior manager has P&L (Profit and Loss) responsibility for the entire product line, including Product Management (for this product line), Customer Support, Training, etc. So that the senior manager can decide on the mix of products and services as a product line. How Many Managers Do You Need? What do you do?

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Clarity Consultants

OCTOBER 8, 2024

As the go-to event for learning and development (L&D) professionals, DevLearn will host over 4,500 attendees and offer over 200 sessions designed to inspire, educate, and ignite innovation in corporate training, eLearning, and beyond. Don’t miss this chance to be part of the most anticipated learning technologies event of the year.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

They are: Understand the various risks: project, product, and organization, and how to manage those risks with feedback loops. Let's start with risks and how feedback loops manage those risks. And product development has at least these risks: Project-based risks, so we can make effective tradeoffs. (See Every effort has risks.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

There's a great introduction article, Capitalization of software development costs.). So, let's assume the team spends a total of 4 hours planning, retrospecting, demoing, all that non-creation time out of the 40 hours the team works. (I I always used incremental life cycles to manage risks. 4 hours is 10% of 40 hours.

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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. The first time a manager asked me how many man-weeks my work would take, I said, “Zero. Demo inside the organization.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 31, 2019

However, some people thought they could get developers to be system testers—and vice versa. Hooks for logs and demos. Anything else that makes development, testing, demo, and release easier. The post Rethinking the Need for Generalizing Specialists appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Firms typically provide consulting clubs with casebooks, containing demo or previous client cases, that students can use to practice for case interviews. Thanduxolo Love Mtsweni is a Management Consultant Analyst at Accenture in South Africa. Don’t make the mistake of focusing solely on academics.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

They (the team) feel that the tasks for the sprint are too varied to manage to a single sprint goal. That's why I wrote a chapter about meetings in Manage It! The Wednesday Agenda 9:30- 10 am (or thereabouts) demo the progress the team made. What should the Scrum Master do?” These are regular facilitation skills, nothing fancy.

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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. However, they saw these results: The product management people now see the requirements as they exist. One team overheard a product manager say, “Your late changes broke our build. Colleagues?).

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2020

I focused on the actual development costs. And, because they can demo each feature, they might need to reconnect every day if the story/feature takes longer than one day. If a hardware team uses the feedback loops, they can manage their various costs before they go to physical form. What Does a Hardware Team Look Like?

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This is why one of the essential rules of the Epicflow approach to resource management is “Make sure not a single resource is overloaded”. Epicflow team has developed three essential features that will help you analyze the workload of your resources, predict and avoid bottlenecks: Load Analysis, Inactive Analysis, and Bottleneck Analysis.

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ConsultX

MARCH 1, 2022

History of the Profit Leakage Calculator ConsultX has developed its own Profit Leakage Calculator as a diagnostic tool to discover the areas of a business that are draining the most profit. Calculation The Profit Leakage Calculator processes the financial and Business Analysis information based on a highly developed algorithm.

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The Fearless Marketer

JANUARY 13, 2020

Let’s say you’re a manager who’s looking for somebody to help their team work more productively and creatively. Well, the business manager, asks others in their company, “Hey, do you know somebody good who does productivity and creativity consulting for teams?”. The purpose of B2B marketing is to get meetings with prospective clients.

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Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

After that, they are given access to a simple demo environment with a standard set of configurations, where they can test how our system works. If your company uses other project management tools like Jira, MS Project, or Oracle Primavera, the demo environment will be adjusted accordingly. Data adjustment and integration.

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Asamby Consulting

APRIL 14, 2022

We also use it internally at Asamby for most of our tasks like: CRM, hours logging, payment tracking, task management, dashboard,) Please note that we recommend AirTable for many day-to-day processes and activities except those related to critical data like accounting, invoices, etc.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

Part 2 was why we need managers in an agile transformation. Start with management first. How can the managers use agility in their work? Management Teams and Agility: Flow & Resilience. When I think about management agility, I often think of managers working in flow, especially for decision.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 21, 2022

What issues will they bring to automotive project management, and what are the ways to address them? Its current development is primarily driven by 4 major trends: connectivity, autonomous vehicles, shared mobility, and electrification. The need to shorten the time for product development. Challenges in Automotive Projects.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I was using that time to transition into a project management role in media. I got a part-time job in a retail store, and in my downtime I just started a learning a lot of the tools necessary in order to be a producer/project manager in media. I eventually built up a little demo reel, and I started presenting that to other companies.

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ConsultX

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Our online consulting software walks you through developing a comprehensive Business Plan with the business owner using the Business Plan Builder tool. Manage plan implementation and improvement. The world’s best business management reporting. And we’ve been working on building the best Business Consulting software since 2005.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 5, 2018

The longer the team goes without a demo, the less replanning anyone can do. The post Frequent Releasing Can Lead to Short and Frequent Planning appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. The team doesn’t receive feedback on their work until they finally release, at the end of the timebox.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

What do your team and your product need for agility and to manage product risks? ” That allows you to manage the project portfolio more easily. I am sure that team needs developers and testers. The kind of developers, testers, business analysts, etc—all that depends on your product. Review your queued work.

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Jerry Fletcher

APRIL 24, 2021

Here are some of the reasons I’m being asked to present this information: Quotes: In a panel on Lead development I said, “ More is not better. Scientists have found 8 management behaviors that use Oxytocin balance to make people more productive. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. What’s Changed? That’s Trust in the New Normal.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

One of Rochet’s first tasks was to create a leadership development program that equipped executives with the knowledge, mindset, and ways of working the company would need to grow in the digital age. “A clear, easy-to-memorize digital group strategy is now vocally championed by leadership across the company,” Rochet says.

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Jerry Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

My expectation from the run-up back and forth with various staff members was that this would be a well-managed professional event. Well, what I do is work with individuals and organizations to develop unique trust-based strategies to build businesses, brands and lives of joy. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel. She was delightful.

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Jerry Fletcher

DECEMBER 11, 2021

I’ve come to the conclusion that Contact Relationship Management is no longer an arena I want to work in. Management doesn’t understand it and more importantly does not understand that tasking sales-people with upkeep is a losing proposition. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel. For the future. And so it goes.

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 27, 2017

81% of management consulting firms list attracting & developing new business as their #1 challenge. Tweet this “Attract & develop new business” is a fancy way of turning leads into paying clients. Tweet this It’s hard to develop strong relationships without following up.

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1 to 1

JANUARY 25, 2024

It dominated panel discussions, powered nearly every product demo on the trade show floor, and featured in economic forecasting discussions. s vice president of customer-facing applications development. The topic of AI was everywhere. Despite some headwinds, consumer spending remains strong, which is good news for retailers.

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