Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

2019 is our ninth year as a company and marks over 15 years of my personal work with clients as they transition to Agile. Throughout our time as a team, we’ve identified many key issues and problems that affect companies on their Path to Agility. Here are five Agile trends to look out for this year: 1.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 15, 2018

Part of what makes an agile transformation difficult is the cultural change required. That’s what makes an agile transformation a journey. A client said to me, “I want the agile. The agile is good stuff: faster delivery of smaller stuff that we can get revenue for. The early bird registration ends May 1, 2018.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Breaking Goals Down With Personal Agility. I decided to use my experience as an Agile coach and run an exercise (pun intended) in personal agility. Here’s my first week of running, March 2018: Yep: 30 mins to cover 1.75 Anderson’s Mastering Leadership. “You’re over the hill. Take up bocce ball instead…”.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2018

Agile is an awesome approach when done right, but is your team making these common mistakes? Most people will agree that the adoption of agile is now mainstream. This adoption is rightfully so, as agile can be an excellent framework for building software. This is extremely short-sighted.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Introduction to an Agile Transformation series… I’ve seen several agile transformation challenges. Since I want to address those challenges, this is a series of posts about agile transformation. The problems I’m planning to address are: Understanding why agile, why now. You might have another reason.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

If you read my scaling agile series , you can see that becoming an agile organization requires seeing your organization as a system with a culture. If you don’t also address the cultural problems of rewards, you won’t continue with your agile transformation. The super-early bird registration ends Mar 1, 2018.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 29, 2021

The teams want to use an agile approach so they can incorporate learning. The managers might even think this is roadmap reflects an agile approach. There's nothing about this roadmap that's agile. You can decide if you need an agile approach. See What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? What can you do?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 6, 2019

They deal with leadership pressures and expectations. For 2018, we spent the year creating a meetup-driven product community in our very own Good Life state. The rest of this post will about two things: What I learned helping create and grow this community in 2018. What we learned in 2018 Treat the community as a product.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

” is one of the questions I see when I work with people going through an agile transformation. I like to see the questions reflect the why for your organization’s agile transformation. A simplistic qualitative measure of organizational agility). The early bird registration ends May 1, 2018. Lead time trends).

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2018

One of my clients has many reasons for wanting an agile transformation. They need agile approaches so they can get feedback from customers as they develop the new products. They need to create a mix of new products and services, which means they need to use an agile approach for their projects and their project portfolio.

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 6, 2018

Agile Roles are well defined in any foundational training for Scrum or Kanban. At Keep Austin Agile 2018, I presented a talk called “So You Made Your Project Managers into ScrumMasters: Roles Transitions When Becoming Agile”. Learn Agile. Servant leadership/Facilitation/Coaching. Agile training.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2018

I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. Without knowing why you want to use agile approaches throughout the organization, you can’t generate reasonable measurements.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Agile culture is about the ability to change. You need to know why you want to change, but once you know that, agile cultures promote change.). We (as agile teams and organizations) deliver something to get some feedback and learning. You might work for one of these companies and they want to use an agile approach.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Agile methodology sounds confusing and difficult, but Bethany Pagels-Minor breaks it down to bite-size slices of delicious cakes that will will help every team work better, communicate better, and provide better returns. It’s called ‘the many flavors of agile and what’s the right one for your team?’ Unsubscribe anytime.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 14, 2018

Similar to the original Agile Manifesto , I’d love for a group of product management thought leaders to get together and devise a “Product Management Manifesto” which stipulates the basic standards that we should adhere to. Mike Monteiro, Design’s Lost Generation , 19 February 2018, [link]. Kent Beck et al.,

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2022

In contrast, Team 2 started “this” project back in 2018, almost four years ago. See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.) The reason the teams worked on so many projects was that senior leadership was not clear on the strategy. They're not really working on this project.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

A story of love, hate, oppression and triumph I’ll admit, I’ve started to fall out of love with agile over the past year or so?—?don’t I wholeheartedly believe that you need to be adaptable to survive today but the further I travel on my own journey the more I wonder if we as an industry are moving past agile. Enter agile.

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TIBCO - Thought Leadership

JUNE 10, 2020

The pair realized early on that they would have to transition their clients from traditional warehousing and replication-based data architectures to more modern and agile solutions. We expanded our partnership in 2018 when TIBCO added TIBCO EBX. Below, I share some highlights from our conversation.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

— Jeff Lash (@jefflash) August 23, 2018. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) August 22, 2018. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) August 16, 2018. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) August 16, 2018. "We We're an #agile company." — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) September 4, 2018.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Breaking Goals Down With Personal Agility. I decided to use my experience as an Agile coach and run an exercise (pun intended) in personal agility. Here’s my first week of running, March 2018: Yep: 30 mins to cover 1.75 Anderson’s Mastering Leadership. “You’re over the hill. Take up bocce ball instead…”.

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TIBCO - Thought Leadership

APRIL 9, 2019

With the dramatic rise in the importance of AI and automation, digital business leaders are faced with a daunting challenge: they need to simultaneously become more insight-driven, more automated, and more agile. It all boils down to agility. Innovative technology is the solution. How can organizations find the right balance?

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Agile Velocity

JANUARY 4, 2019

2018 was a remarkable year for the Agile community. Agile is now expanding into new departments and industries. Companies are continuing to tackle the challenge of scaling Agile throughout their organization. What does this all mean for companies and their use of Agile in 2019? You’ll leave with….

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ProductBoard

JANUARY 29, 2019

However, we should be transparent and mention that we—productboard—sponsored Jam London 2018. “At The Product Event 2019 we work to engage product managers through leadership, motivating thought and inspiring positive change.” Agile Open California 2019 San Diego. ” Mile High Agile 2019. So there’s that.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

— Jeff Lash (@jefflash) August 23, 2018. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) August 22, 2018. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) August 16, 2018. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) August 16, 2018. "We We're an #agile company." — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) September 4, 2018.

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Good Product Manager

AUGUST 2, 2018

October 2 in Cleveland: Product Management Leadership. I’ll be talking about Product Management Leadership: Beyond just “what does good product management look like,” this talk is for product leaders looking to build, develop, manage and organize a world-class product management organization.

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Good Product Manager

AUGUST 2, 2018

October 2 in Cleveland: Product Management Leadership. I’ll be talking about Product Management Leadership: Beyond just “what does good product management look like,” this talk is for product leaders looking to build, develop, manage and organize a world-class product management organization.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Hopefully you had a great 2017 and (soon) a very happy 2018! A quick recap for UserZoom – in early 2017 we redesigned the entire UserZoom product and have consistently improved it throughout the year, and will continue to do the same in 2018. Agile, Agile & even more Agile. But I was wrong.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

He held leadership roles at Bay Area startups and high growth organizations like WatchMojo -- helping establish product functions, as well as large strategic consulting companies such as Edelman where he organized product-led initiatives across national/regional offices. Interested in having me speak or attend an event? About Bain Public.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

When: April 16, 2018. Rich coaches product executives, product management teams and agile/lean development organizations. He also parachutes into software companies as interim VP Products/CPO to address company-level product/market/leadership issues. What: One-Day Product Leaders Workshop (Roundtable). Where : Frankfurt, DE .

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In November 2018, Brainmates hosted eight Product Management leaders for a round table discussion to tease out their insights and beliefs on the state of Product Management in Australia. She says Product Management is leadership and that means dealing with a range of tough situations and sometimes tough stakeholders.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

Ultimately, they both learned how a user-centred and evidence-based approach to product development can work well with agile software design methodologies. Beers, Ideas, and Volunteers In late 2018, Duncan and his team attended the company’s regular internal ideation session, humorously called “Beers, Ideas, and Volunteers.”

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

And another issue with centralized design teams is that a load of design and tech teams are both using Jira often you’ll find the tech teams on Agile and the design team is on waterfall, so the design team becomes another blocker and they get even more demoralized and miserable because everyone’s moaning at them.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 23, 2019

I’ve been in product management roles or engineering management or UX or business development or agile enablement. Some people may say lean startup or agile means we don’t need a roadmap, we don’t need a priority list we just start somewhere and we just go. I’ve done a lot of different things.

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Gainsight

JULY 20, 2020

The Key to Customer Success Was Transformational Leadership. Just over a year ago, Commvault made the bold decision to alter its leadership approach significantly. Our development over the years has always been nimble and agile while putting the customer first,” said Lee Peterson, EMEA regional leader of customer success.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

He is a serial entrepreneur, prolific writer, organizer, and participant in product management, agile, UX, and innovation events around the world. At BoS, Bruce has spoken three times ( Europe 2018 , USA 2018 , Europe Online 2020) and has led not one but two great BoS Masterclasses focused on Product Roadmapping.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

We bring a startup mindset and agile methods to both established companies and the public sector to unlock value in ways that delight their customers and improve their operational effectiveness. Publicis Sapient, for example, has a great Women’s Leadership Network (WLN). Recognise and embrace your uniqueness.

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Modus Create

MARCH 15, 2021

In 2018, we decided to become an Atlassian partner to serve both new and existing clients better. The American Institute of Architects boosted their stakeholder engagement with Atlassian tools, and NCR upskilled their team and upgraded the Atlassian stack to accelerate Agile transformation. Modus Create’s Atlassian Journey.

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