Johanna Rothman

MARCH 20, 2023

I have opened the Q2 2023 Free Your Inner Writer workshop for registration. If you want my support in your writing, take the workshop. (If If you haven't yet bought the book, I'll give you a copy as part of the workshop.) See the syllabus on the Free Your Inner Writer workshop page. I can help. Register now. Contact me.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Consider sharing the input beforehand when you run a strategy workshop so that people can prepare for the meeting. This might be your Scrum Master or an agile coach. 1 Set an Objective.

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Miro

APRIL 28, 2020

Using Miro to run seamless remote meetings & workshopsWhether you’re running a professional workshop, holding an impromptu brainstorming session, or transitioning your Agile ceremonies online, managing and facilitating online sessions can be challenging.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Learn the qualities of a successful product manager and leader. Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. Roman is a product management expert specializing in digital products. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:00]

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 15, 2019

After Mark Kilby and I collaborated on From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , we decided to start creating online classes. We have just opened registration for our first geographically distributed agile teams class. See Prepare for Successful Distributed Agile Teams. It's a self-study class. Any questions?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 1 Focus on Goals and Benefits.

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Mind the Product

MAY 12, 2021

In this #mtpcon Digital APAC session, sponsored by Lucid, the company’s customer success manager Gavan Moule takes us through ways we can facilitate Agile workshops and team working using Lucidspark virtual whiteboards. With so many of us working remotely, tools such as these are really coming into their own.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After countless conversations, articles, webinars and conference sessions, I started to feel like the profession of product management had been reduced to…. Cranking user stories through the agile factory. When I was coming up through the product management ranks, I worked for companies that did it both ways. Never gonna be!

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Valerian Tech

JULY 27, 2023

Introduction In today's fast-paced and dynamic business environment, organizations are increasingly turning to agile methodologies to enhance their software development and project management processes. Agile methodologies offer a flexible and iterative approach that emphasizes collaboration, adaptability, and customer-centricity.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

What is an agile release train? An Agile Release Train (ART) is a feature of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). The train is made up of multiple agile teams. Principles of an agile release train. Principles of an agile release train. An Agile Release Train works with the SAFe principles and processes.

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Product Management University

JUNE 12, 2017

Some days it feels like Agile frameworks are dictating how product management is done. At a minimum, they seem to be dominating the product management narrative in the software industry. Let’s call a spade a spade – Agile is not a product management framework. Agile is a software development methodology.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2019

TL; DR: The Liberating Structures Immersive Workshop for Scrum Why running a Liberating Structures immersive workshop? Since the beginning of 2019, the Hands-on Agile meetup in Berlin has been exploring how to apply Liberating Structures to Scrum. We ran that workshop last week, and this is what we learned.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 15, 2023

T In this video, Transformation Coaches Randy Hale and Sally Tait discuss how to: Apply Lean budgeting to simplify financial processes and focus on value Use Lean Portfolio Management techniques to optimize enterprise flow Leverage KPI’s and metrics to accurately show portfolio health Deliver More Value With The Same Amount of Resources.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The managers don't believe the teams need product owners, so the teams don't have POs. The managers think a Scrum Master can support at least four teams. The managers (often with the assistance of a consultancy) decided Scrum was the answer. However, the managers didn't define the problem(s) they want to solve.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 2, 2020

Remote Agile Event Planning?—?a My solution to this challenge is going the extra mile regarding the remote agile event planning. As we will use Liberating Structures frequently during the remote agile event, I point to an article series covering Liberating Structures for Scrum. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 3, 2020

The processes don't have sufficient agility to deliver the necessary results. Yet, people who want to use agile approaches don't want to apply agile thinking to their processes. Some clients want to create their custom agile process— and then standardize it across the organization. My Processes and My Agility.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

TL;DR: Creating an Agile Community of Practice Creating an agile community of practice helps winning hearts and minds within the organization as it provides authenticity to the agile transition?—?signaling signaling that the effort is not merely another management fad. How to Become an Agile Organization?—?When

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

A great way to ensure that your vision is shared is to create it together with the stakeholders and dev team members in a collaborative workshop, be it online or onsite. Visioning Workshop Attendees. Encourage the participants to describe the purpose that they associate with the product.

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Bain Public

JUNE 19, 2019

(Montreal, Canada) - Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public, will be giving a 120 minute workshop at Agile Testing Days in Potsdam, Germany. Agile Testing Days is an annual European conference for and by international professionals involved in the agile world. Time: 10:25-12:25.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

An effective product strategy is key to successfully create, enhance, and manage a product. This includes the stakeholders, the management sponsor, and development teams. As figure 3 shows, the person in charge of the product should lead the strategy workshops and ensure that the right decision are made.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

Several people on social media have denigrated the terms “project manager” and “program manager.” ” These people claim there is no need for either role in an effective team, especially an agile team because the team can manage its own deliverables. Facilitating the team's collaboration.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Managers and product managers are often frustrated by the apparent lack of care the development team is showing for the needs of the business. Agile Development Things don’t necessarily get better with agile development. Agile dev did away with project waterfall?—?Specification In fact they may get worse.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2020

The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview w/ Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem Today we welcome Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem. If so, you can subscribe here and join 26k agile peers. What brought you to ‘agile?’ “ Christiaan : A friend of mine started a software company. This wasn’t a success. Everyone was unhappy.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 30, 2019

As a business analyst and expert, I have been involved in various Agile projects. However, one of them was so exceptional that made me doubt if Agile is really the best way to manage all types of projects. The team followed the Agile approach to project management and had experienced Scrum master.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 4, 2019

I just finished a series for my Pragmatic Manager newsletter about Agile Transformation Secrets: Part 1: Manage for Change. I wrote this series because I find that many people get a little confused about an agile transformation. They think an agile approach will work because they can predict and commit better.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2019

TL; DR: Faking Agile Metrics?—?An An Eye-Opening Exercise Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. Cooking the Agile Books?—?A Velocity?—?the in my experience?—?delivers

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 15, 2024

Martin Fowler, well-known in the agile community, once told me he purposefully created keynotes that were combinations of three fifteen to twenty-minute talks. While workshops often require some time where you talk, you can choose to design a workshop, so people mostly work and learn from debriefing.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I've met a number of agile coaches recently. Even though the client asked for agile coaching, that might not be what the client needs. Even though the client asked for agile coaching, that might not be what the client needs. These questions have nothing to do with a “better agile” or “better Scrum.”

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 9, 2019

Now that agile teams stay together, we can change the kickoff to more project-specific work. I wrote an article several years ago, Keys to Chartering an Agile Project. That article has the template I offered in Manage It! In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I suggested a reframe for the charter. Kickoff Activities.

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Good Product Manager

AUGUST 17, 2015

Product Manager and Product Owner: One Person or Two? As more organizations adopt and look to optimize agile development approaches, one of the questions that is most pressing relates to roles and responsibilities — specifically, about how the role of product owner compares to the role of product manager.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 23, 2018

Julia Whitney’s opening keynote told us that regardless of our level in an organization chart, the nature of our jobs means that product managers have to be leaders. Catch Julia’s stakeholder management workshop in London in October!). And leaders have an outsized impact on team performance.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How product managers can align stakeholders on product projects. Today we are talking about the need for product leaders to manage stakeholders and the associated challenges this creates. He is currently working on a new book project, co-authoring Aligned: Stakeholder Management for Product Leaders. ” What a great quote.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 3, 2019

At the Influential Agile Leader workshop earlier this year, I led a session about scaling and how you might think about it. My experience is that when people use frameworks for larger efforts, they experience these unexpected side effects: The framework actions often require more manager-type people to control the actions of others.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 20, 2021

We talk a lot about empowered or self-organizing teams in the agile community. However, every manager's micromanagement pervades all levels. When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , we said the easiest way to create a system that worked for the team was for the team to create its own board.

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bpma ProductHub

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It’s a real practitioners’ book, written by four Boston-based leaders in Product Management: C. As companies adopt agile and lean methodologies, there was clear need for education on a new way to manage product roadmaps”. Todd Lombardo, Bruce McCarthy, Evan Ryan and Michael Connors. Register @ www.bostonproducts.org.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 1, 2023

I met Mark back in 2017 when I attended an Anthology workshop from the nice folks at WMG Publishing. I sold two short stories at that workshop, my very first short story sales. For you agile types, Mark runs his podcast as a reflection—a retrospective—of what he learned from speaking with the guest.

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