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. If you and your team have been practicing real agility, you might say these ideas barely show any agility at all.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

See Create Your Successful Agile Project for how to use cycle time to reduce the time you spend on estimation.). If your team has to change what they do one month or six weeks into a quarter's estimation or commitment, the product feedback loop is too long. Instead, consider using flow-based roadmapping.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 2, 2024

We need operational feedback loops to consistently verify we're headed where we want to go. See the Multiple Short Feedback Loops Support Innovation and Feedback Loops Help When to Centralize or Decentralize Product-Based Decisions for more ideas about feedback loops and decisions.)

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 11, 2022

However, the more often we deliver in short feedback loops, the more often we can make strategic decisions. The more often we iterate strategically, the more we exhibit business agility. The shorter the feedback loops, the easier it is to use what we finished to make a new decision about the next bit of work at all levels.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. That's why the duration of the internal feedback loops is so important. I used the image above in Multiple Short Feedback Loops Support Innovation. Show them your feedback loops and your cycle time.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 25, 2018

I’m working on my roadmapping talk for Agile 2018. I finally had the transforming idea about how to position the talk: Roadmapping and product planning are about feedback loops. The shorter the feedback loop, the faster and more often we can learn.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 18, 2024

How can you prevent an overstuffed backlog, roadmap, or all those great ideas from interrupting your team from finishing its work? Instead of backlog or roadmap, start to call these ideas “options.” That's why aging is a part of the flow metrics feedback loop on the top of this post. Those feedback loops.)

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

More of my clients say they want business agility. Yet, we don't share a common definition of business agility. Those actions show that managers change their actions in the face of new information or feedback. Those actions show that managers change their actions in the face of new information or feedback.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2022

In Part 1 , I said that product roadmaps are not like car roadmaps. But even car roadmaps showed places of interest—options—for the driver and passengers. Too often, I see very predictable roadmaps for managers. Predictability vs. Option Discussion for Roadmaps. More on that later in this post.).

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

I suspect their teams hide their feedback loops. When people create a high-level WBS, no one sees the feedback loops or the dependencies. The feedback loops tend to be late and create chaos in the project. That's another great way to hide feedback loops. I always see unplanned feedback loops.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

Did you know you can maximize your chances of achieving desired business outcomes by combining DevOps with an Agile transformation? When you hear “Business Outcomes,” “DevOps,” and/or Agile transformation” – what comes to mind? Agile Transformation. Agile transformations and DevOps initiatives are complementary.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 22, 2022

We use product roadmaps to see where we want to go and the options we might take to get there. Yet, so many of our roadmaps offer only a single and certain destination. Instead of certainty, let's consider options in our roadmap—at least for certain personas. Let's use different roadmaps to show people where we are.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap is constructed to accomplish specific goals critical to the success of the business. The Problem With Outcome-Based Roadmaps. But it is greatly diminished when folks are betting on unrealistic results.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 8, 2019

In an ideal agile world, the team would work directly with a customer. You can create short feedback loops with your customer. Shorten Customer Feedback Loops. All of these reasons require shorter feedback loops if we want to benefit from an agile approach. See Part 1 for more info.).

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2022

However, if you have shorter feedback loops , you might want to separate those experiments into smaller chunks. Experiments Create Shorter Feedback Loops. Remember, the shorter your feedback loops, the more decision points you can create. But thinking in experiments has another value to everyone.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

This is one of the reasons Mark and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Your team might not need an agile approach. I addressed short feedback loops in Part 2. The place to see the roadmaps for the longer term. Build Team Resilience: Shorten Feedback Loops (Part 2).

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 11, 2022

Those are exactly the problems Daniel, Prateek, and I discussed in Aging Fun with Drunk Agile (Video). Even if I had organized the data (in a roadmap or a portfolio), I would have had to take the time to work through it all. This is a reinforcing feedback loop that reinforces longer decision times!). Well, clean enough.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 8, 2019

I started this series with the question: If we have teams for all other aspects of an agile approach, why wouldn't we want the product owner to also work as part of a team? Could a team reduce the feedback loop durations? Iterative, Incremental, and Agile Approaches Reduce the Feedback Loop Durations.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

A product manager’s responsibilities include evaluating ideas, setting product strategy, building and sharing product roadmaps, prioritizing features and documenting requirements, defining product releases, and analyzing and reporting on progress. This feedback loop needs to be integrated into the product planning and development processes.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 22, 2020

Even if you use an agile approach, you still can't create an impossible project. Or, you need to experiment some more with smaller feedback loops to understand what to deliver. These folks had a software-only product, so their agile approach helped them finish work. The teams chose to: Use an agile approach.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

See Shorten Team Feedback Loops with These Three Questions to Increase Throughput or any of the Little's Law posts to understand why.) If you want to “scale” your agility, ask yourself these questions: How can we collaborate at all levels? Will that collaboration shorten our feedback cycles and reduce WIP?

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I gained two benefits: releasing a complete book, and taking the time off from the consulting book to decide what I wanted to say. I'm now able to finish the consulting book. My consulting book had the same product problems as many of my clients have: The product in our head is not what our customers need or see.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 6, 2020

Yes, the product team should consult with a variety of stakeholders, preferably from both within and outside the immediate project team. Understand the importance of the continuous product feedback loop. Well for one, it is to define a crystal clear product roadmap and a manageable, achievable product backlog.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 8, 2018

Such top-down knowledge and perfect understanding is core to the partnership based on consultancy, responsibility and strong motivation. Direct information exchange between engineers is short and straight-to-the-point, which leaves a room for facilitating communication and shortening the feedback loop. Project’s status?—?“done”,

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DISQO

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

But the overwhelming majority is consumed as a product team culturally and practically shifts from waterfall to agile experimentation, recognizing that planned research pales in comparison to iterative research. Product managers diligently consult these stakeholders when explaining customer feedback and deciding on next steps.

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DISQO

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

But the overwhelming majority is consumed as a product team culturally and practically shifts from waterfall to agile experimentation, recognizing that planned research pales in comparison to iterative research. Product managers diligently consult these stakeholders when explaining customer feedback and deciding on next steps.

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