Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 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 focus on watching the work, not the people. See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for more information. The more frequently you can demo, the better.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 10, 2024

When I work with these teams or their managers, I realize they're not demoing or retrospecting on a regular basis. The managers worry that the teams can't finish “anything on time.” And all those ways require we change the culture from that of resource-efficiency thinking to flow-efficiency thinking.

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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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Epicflow

JANUARY 21, 2022

What issues will they bring to automotive project management, and what are the ways to address them? Such a complicated multi-project environment with its project dependencies and shared resources requires a well-thought project and resource management approach. . Manage uncertainty and risks . The need to cut costs.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2021

I suspected I would learn about engagement with my next questions about management patterns. Management Patterns That Might Cause a Team to Miss “Deadlines” I find two general buckets of problems for missing deadlines: how management organizes teams and the “need” for certain measures. And remotely!)

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 24, 2022

No one wants to demo this work, because everyone thinks the demo will wander all over the place. Worse, no one wants to demo, because they can't see the value for any user. Use the Demo to Guide Sizing. Use the Demo to Guide Sizing. Focus on the flow of work through the team, flow efficiency thinking.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

They (the team) feel that the tasks for the sprint are too varied to manage to a single sprint goal. 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?

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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. See the Flow Efficiency series.) As a manager, you can ask teams to collaborate. Here are some examples: Demos, even of partially working product. I had the phone.

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Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Your crisis team is under pressure to work together efficiently to: Get to the route of the crisis (determine what happened, why, how, when and where); Communicate appropriately and in real-time with your key stakeholders; and. Crisis Preparedness Employees and Crisis Management Food for Thought' Interested?

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

That's an example of how insidious resource efficiency thinking is. I explain the activity in this way: Your managers wanted you to fix this problem yesterday. 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.

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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.) That's a form of managing WIP.

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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. However, hiring managers expect deep agile expertise that connect to the Pirate metrics. There way too many of you.

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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

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? That's a prime example of resource efficiency , which does not work. I needed to demo more often. ” Aha!

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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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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

” There's more in Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management.) 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. What if you have no visual progress yet ?

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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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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The first time a manager asked me how many man-weeks my work would take, I said, “Zero. Demo inside the organization. We Know How to Manage “Indivisible” Work Now If people work alone, it's true, that nine women can't have one baby in one month. Besides, we know how to manage indivisible work.

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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. 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.”. She was delightful.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The functionality necessary to complete these project management processes is simply not accessible from a simple General Ledger (GL) only. Achieving Your Project Management Goals with Progressus Project Accounting Progressus Project Accounting allows project-based businesses to take control of project finances.

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Jerry Fletcher

APRIL 24, 2021

Scientists have found 8 management behaviors that use Oxytocin balance to make people more productive. 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. When we’re stressed we have too little. Dates on hold.

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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 Assess how often you demo releases. You can do that if your team works in flow efficiency. When you know, you can make educated choices. Review your queued work.

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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. What’s led this is an extraordinarily resilient jobs market,” said Brian Nagle, senior research analyst and managing director at Oppenheimer & Co. The topic of AI was everywhere.

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 27, 2017

81% of management consulting firms list attracting & developing new business as their #1 challenge. Up to 70% of B2B websites don’t display clear calls to action on any of their home pages, such as specials, e-mail newsletters, how-to guides, demos, and interactive tools. If you are, then start with the data.

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Epicflow

DECEMBER 29, 2022

We’ve been working hard, and we’ll do even more next year to make Epicflow stay the best multi-project resource management solution available on the market. SoftwareWorld Includes Epicflow in the List of Top 2022 Resource Management Solutions . New Office for a Bigger Epicflow Team, Management & Client Base Updates .

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Back in the 1990s, I worked as a hands-on program manager for a 12-person team. The previous manager had focused on resource efficiency, not flow efficiency , so everyone had “their” own work. The manager thought that the people would get more done if they started more. Six “new” developers.

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Jerry Fletcher

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I’ll bet neither have managed to tap you on the shoulder so far. 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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