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Fun Discussion with Luke Pivac About Agility and Employment

Johanna Rothman

(That link just goes to the first post) My most recent book: Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. In addition, here's the unedited transcript: Agile _ Adapt – Expert Talk – Johanna Rothman – April 2024 in docx format. Luke and I always have fun discussions.

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Not So Serious Discussion About Project Lifecycles with Agile Uprising Podcast

Johanna Rothman

I was on the Agile Uprising podcast this past Sunday, discussing my most recent book. Some of what we discussed: That managers want agility but do not care about any agile methods or frameworks. While we might think “agile” is another project organization method—or lifecycle—it's not. See (and hear!):

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How To Talk To Your Executives About Agile

The Secret PM Handbook

People have asked me “How can I get my execs to support an agile transformation? Reframe the Agile conversation around value. Don’t talk about scrum or methodologies or the Agile Manifesto. Don’t talk about scrum or methodologies or the Agile Manifesto. They don’t like that they can’t predict anything.”.

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Unpacking Business Agility

Agile Velocity

I recently had the pleasure of having a conversation with Pam Ashby, a strategist at the Agile Business Consortium , to explore the world of Business Agility. Business Agility is a topic that’s been gaining momentum and for a good reason. What is Business Agility?

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Agile Metrics for Team and Product Progress

Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

You’ll learn about team measurements: Why velocity is a current capacity measure and not a measure of progress. How to get people excited about seeing working product. How to tell if a team is making progress or spinning its wheels. How to tell if a team is making progress or spinning its wheels.

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Successful Agility In Product Delivery Requires Dynamic Implementation

The Product Coalition

Challenging an emerging myth that Agile is dead, and providing insight on key principles & tactics to finding success with Agile-based product teams. Nowadays it seems to have an opinion of Agile product methods like Scrum. Agile methods like Scrum are not a one-size-fits-all framework.

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How Agile Has Changed Product Management

Roman Pichler

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager. The Brave New Agile World.

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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

How to communicate with others in the C-Suite about reasonable expectations for your team. How to move teams from survival mode, to learning mode, to being wholly self-organized. Which leadership styles are most effective for each mode. When and how to encourage learning in your team. February 21 2019 12.30 PM PST, 3.30 PM EST, 8.30

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A Masterclass in How to Navigate the Messy Connection Between Work and Value in Your Team

Speaker: Dave West, CEO of Scrum.org

Everyone knows that agile approaches are designed to deliver value. The idea of incremental delivery in pursuit of a mission for customers is fundamental to Scrum and the Agile Manifesto. And why, when asked about progress, do people talk about velocity and Story Points? A Live/On-Demand Masterclass.

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Monitoring AWS Container Environments at Scale

Particularly well-suited for microservice-oriented architectures and agile workflows, containers help organizations improve developer efficiency, feature velocity, and optimization of resources. Containers power many of the applications we use every day.

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From Project to Product: Let’s Talk Funding

Speaker: Anne Steiner, Vice President of Product and Technology at Cprime

Despite the substantial buzz about becoming a product-driven organization, all too often companies are holding on to their old project-based ways due to some “big rock” constraints, the biggest one being the project-based funding model. Why project-based funding models stifle agility. The benefits of product-based funding models.

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How To Build Data-Informed Products

Speaker: Tim Herbig, Director, iridion

What about the times when it doesn't make sense to A/B test, because you have too small a sample size? Tim Herbig will share his hands-on approach to working with analytics in agile product management. But as they say, you wouldn't put a round peg in a square hole.