Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2020

In Costs of an Agile Approach for Hardware Products , I suggested that an iteration-based approach for hardware was too expensive. Agile software teams are cross-functional and interdependent. Many agile software teams have somewhere between four and seven people. Hardware Costs Limit Agile Approaches. One customer.)

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

I discussed the origins of the agile approaches in Part 5. In this post, I'll discuss how you can create an agile approach that fits your context. Why should you create your own agile approach? You deserve an agile approach that helps you achieve the business outcomes you need. What do you need? Start with the Team.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 28, 2018

Many new-to-agile teams use some form of iteration-based agile approach. Back in Time You Spend in Agile Meetings (near the bottom of the post), I enumerated all the possible meetings. I mentioned how you could integrate the demo work into an iteration if you create a column for the demo.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

I started asking if you actually need an agile approach in Part 1 and noted the 4 big problems I see. Part 2 was why we need managers in an agile transformation. Part 4 was about how “Agile” is meaningless and “agile” is an adjective that needs to be applied to something. That would be resilient.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

When teams collaborate and focus on creating running tested features that work, the teams make real and fast progress. Your customers only care about running, tested features. See Agile Program Measurements to Visualize and Track Progress and Measure Cycle Time for my suggestions of what to measure.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

My career started at Hewitt Associates which was a human capital and management consulting firm that operated 500 offices in 120 countries. We provided consulting, insurance brokerage, information technology and business process outsourcing services. The four memorable moments below taught me, and continue to teach me these lessons.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

See Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility. Conjecture about an architecture or an algorithm, and test their theories. Demo inside the organization. I bet you, as I, have plenty of stories when it took you several weeks to write some code or tests. See People are NOT FTEs.) We learn as we create.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick is the ultimate guide to talking to customers as a product manager and includes sample scripts and questions you can directly use in your customer interviews.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 28, 2019

You have an agile roadmap to see where you're headed. Your team hates having to translate the agile planning into more traditional planning. If you're in this pickle, your manager might think your agile team doesn't replan very often. That manager might assume your team uses an agile approach only as a way to deliver.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Nor do the teams demo on a regular basis. The teams miss the feedback loops so critical for an agile approach. Their agile transformation falls apart. Let's think about how to create agile projects with short feedback loops, not projects that look like waterfall. Prevent Agile Projects that Look Like Waterfall.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Deployments to production happened just hours before client demos. The resulting post deployment issues and incomplete setup of new features left the stakeholder conducting a walk through on the concept of the app but not actually able to demo the app to their audience. This work was not reflected in the story point estimation.

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Userpilot

APRIL 1, 2022

If you’re looking for help with localizing your in-app experiences, get in touch with Userpilot for a Demo! Language string length and script affect the UI, so to future-proof your product , test the UI from this angle at the design stage. Anna Iokhimovich , localization consultant. Software localization release agility.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

Many of my clients are trying to use short feedback loops in agile approaches. If the team is supposed to prototype and throw away, then the team might not need to the refactor/reanalyze/redesign, but not what to do when they write the code and tests for real. I wrote about this in Create Your Successful Agile Project.)

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Alternatives like Userpilot or other agile digital adoption platforms come with the necessary elements needed to create a contextual, personalized user experience. That said, it's not that agile digital adoption platform as one might expect. Get a demo and get started. You can jump on a free consultation call with us !

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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. That's fine.

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Actuation Consulting

JUNE 24, 2019

Sales tools, demos, and training requirements – How will you equip your sales force to clearly communicate your product’s value and uses? Advancing the Profession of Product Management website I consulting I training I toolkits I books I blog I twitter. Marketing Collateral – What support materials will be needed?

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UX Studio

JUNE 30, 2023

USA; Europe $70 – $90 / hr Website design, UI/UX design, Research, Website Audit, Mobile App Design, Consulting, Expert Review Studio 22 Design Studio 22 Design is a creative design firm located in the San Francisco Bay area. Consulting: Our experts can help you get a holistic overview of your product development process.

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Under 10 Consulting

JUNE 6, 2019

Drucker, American management consultant. We were early adopters of agile methods but I certainly couldn’t attend daily standups; I wasn’t co-located so I couldn’t do some of the daily interactions that seem to be required today. Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

The product owner role is very much tied to Agile Scrum development and is responsible for creating user stories and epics to represent the work that needs to be done. Use user experience journey mapping and A/B testing to optimize the user journey and unlock more growth. The 6-step process of A/B testing from Venturebeat.com.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 19, 2017

What advice do I have for Product Managers struggling to balance agility and Agile development with planning and strategy? Sales should do most product demos (not Product); Engineering should do QA testing (not Product); Marketing should design customer collateral (not Product). What does “Product Management” mean to me?

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Agile development. Suppose the sales team wants to run re-occurring demo days because it’ll engage users and increase lead generation, you have to figure out the motivation behind the request. A/B test to develop team ownership. A/B testing is one way to do that. A/B testing is one way to do that. Source ].

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Back in Part 1 , I wrote about how stage-gate approaches were as agile as we could use at the time. We had one delivery, so our agility was about canceling the project if we couldn't finish it. We develop test plans early. If you get feedback as you proceed, you finish the design, coding, integration, and testing.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Combining the two platforms enables app providers to move with the speed and agility to meet the needs of their customers, while still maintaining the security and control required for regulatory concerns. And if you’re ready for a change, request an Apptentive demo or sign up for a free trial. Quantum Metric. Kin + Carta.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

might demo the feature. That defect escaped all your checklists, approvals, and demos. See What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? That's because no one could imagine the real product state until QA started to test the features. As a result, the testers did not test too many of the typical user experiences.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2019

That’s why we asked Josh Seiden , a well-known product consultant and author, to join us on the podcast. Pick one project or one set of stories where you’ll use the language of agile. With my co-author Jeff Gothelf, I wrote a book called Lean UX , which was a book about how product teams can work together in a more agile way.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 31, 2019

Early on in my agile practice, I believed in generalizing specialists. Here's how this might work for your agile team. You don't have an agile team because they're not collaborating on the work. Hooks for logs and demos. Anything else that makes development, testing, demo, and release easier.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Driving Agile ceremonies, including planning, grooming, demos, and retrospectives. Performing validation testing of production releases, bug fixes, and feature requests. You’ll be consulted for advice on the process, relationships, tactical moves, etc., Do you always start as an Associate Product Manager? Drive execution.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 23, 2019

Sales is selling it, customer service supports it, engineering is building it, QA is testing it, marketing is positioning it, and finance is counting the money it brings in. When product team presentations are a regular occurrence at a company all-hands, you’re able to give demos early and often and therefore keep them short and specific.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

 There are no secret resources or hidden teams or magic agile improvements or underutilized developers.  Very Lots of discussion about estimation, dependencies, technical debt, work assignments, test automation, design handoffs.  They get a bonus for handing off custom work to approved third party consultancies.  

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Driving Agile ceremonies, including planning, grooming, demos, and retrospectives. Performing validation testing of production releases, bug fixes, and feature requests. You’ll be consulted for advice on the process, relationships, tactical moves, etc., Do you always start as an Associate Product Manager? Drive execution.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 28, 2019

Perhaps the markets – we’re doing well and the market is growing, but you can’t help feeling that we’re not converting enough of the demos that we do or the conversations we have aren’t turning into business fast enough. You have to go out and test it. I say ok, if that’s what you want to do.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Or, you might only need informal demos to show people where you are. However, you know what tests you need. Solving Deterministic Problems Does Not Require an Agile Approach. You might show other people internal demos. When the team shows other internal people demos , the team invites trust and greater learning.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

I was initially brought in as a freelance consultant by Simon Nelson, who had been recently appointed by the OU as CEO of its new venture. Many of these will probably be familiar to you from the agile manifesto but it required some convincing of a large traditional organisation like the OU. From Singer/Songwriter to Festival.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

and Create Your Successful Agile Project. When to give into demands to demo (“I haven't tested!”) I'm pretty sure that the people who have trouble with female consultants don't hire me. “Stop Making It Harder” appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. Which is totally fine.

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