Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Of course, there are feedback loops here, too: Notice that we expect feedback from later features back to the previous features. However, if we have “bad” feedback from the last (or interim feature), we don't have the “Kiss of Death” as we did in the serial or iterative lifecycles.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For years, managers have been trying to find ways to make software product development faster and easier. “Agile” as a way to do much more work in much less time. (NO! AI to take the place of humans in product development. There is one silver bullet for product development—the speed of team learning time.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

Your planning feedback loops can be longer. We need short feedback loops in the project/program to see where we are and make small adjustments. Even if you do encounter technical problems, agile approaches help manage those problems with short project feedback loops. I was a happy developer.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

No one cares about a team's agility—with the possible exception of the team itself. The more agile the approach, the faster the team can deliver value to the customers—without late learning. The more agile the approach, the faster the team can deliver value to the customers—without late learning.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 9, 2021

I said that when we focus on individual achievements and deliverables, we ignore the agile system of work. Worse, when we reward individual achievements we prevent an agile culture. That's because agile teams learn together as they create the product. See Multiple Short Feedback Loops Support Innovation for more information.).

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

” It depends on how your lifecycle manages feedback loops and learning, how collaborative the team is, and how much WIP the team has. Each Lifecycle Manages Feedback Loops Differently Brooks wrote the original version of The Mythical Man-Month in 1975, based on the 1960s IBM 360 project. .”

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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. How little can you do to get some feedback on the product?

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 18, 2024

I discussed this a little in Aging Fun with Drunk Agile (Video) and in How to Assess the Value of Old Data and Its Effect on Aging.) That's why aging is a part of the flow metrics feedback loop on the top of this post. Those feedback loops.) We can file all those ideas into an electronic tool.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Isn't every iterative and incremental approach an agile approach? We often hear agile approaches are a mindset. An agile approach requires a change in culture at the team level, at the portfolio level, and in management. Agile approaches change what we discuss, how we work together, and what we reward. Release trains.

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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

MARCH 11, 2021

Worse, most career ladders assume we can assess what a person can do, not on their contributions to an agile team. That means most career ladders don't fit agile teams or an agile culture. Instead of individual achievements, we can reward the types of agile leadership we want to see in agile teams. Ask for help.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops. We change the feedback loops. That's the point of all those feedback loops in the image above.). We change the drivers for the feedback loops. How Changing the Feedback Loop Drivers Might Work. Or finish a project.) Teams would not multitask.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve, a software development manager, thought John was a “10x” developer. Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers? Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers?

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

They've started to use agile approaches. There's a great introduction article, Capitalization of software development costs.). Capitalization for Agile Work. Let me walk you through an example of a 5-person agile team. I would add demoing in as value creation, but I'm not sure how accountants categorize feedback loops.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. Team-based “agile” is not enough.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

they have to be, the roots haven’t developed yet. Eric, when he was raising money for his own startup, ran into investor Steve Blank who made Eric take his course on rapid-cycle product development as a pre-condition for Steve investing. Short development cycles and then getting the product into the hands of users is important.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 29, 2022

That's because working in flow allows and creates ease in my development. My feedback loops are shorter than one day, so I can change what I do next. The post How I Manage My Product Development: Ease with Continuous Flow (Day 1) appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Some of my clients have struggled with their project governance as they move to agile approaches. See my series on Balance Innovation, Commitment, & Feedback Loops: Summary. This kind of measurement is antithetical to agile principles. Agile approaches allow us to do that. That productivity thing.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 10, 2019

They're not living the principles of the agile manifesto. It's the team's job to use an agile approach to define the strategy, discover ways to deliver that strategy and replan. The Product Value Team can create short feedback loops between the various kinds of planning, the team, and the customer.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Feedback loops. Matt’s Mind The Product talk, Be in a Band, not an Orchestra: how to Grow an Agile Product Team. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. He joins us on the podcast to level up our retro game.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many agile teams and product leaders assume they can make many product decisions on their own. I'm fond of multiple short feedback loops so people can change their minds in the face of new data. The post When HiPPOs Use Their Power to Decide for Other People appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2022

In Agile and Lean Program Management , I suggested two other views of large products. See Create Feedback Loops (Agile Approaches) for Hardware Products.). The post See and Resolve Team Dependencies, Part 4: All Component Teams, Complex Product appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2022

Most teams use agile approaches because they want some feedback, internal and external, to guide the future product development. If we don't need feedback, we don't need an agile approach. That feedback means we need product roadmaps to show options. Predictability vs. Option Discussion for Roadmaps.

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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. I wrote Lessons Learned from Leading Workshops about Geographically Distributed Agile Teams with Shane Hastie back in 2013.

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DISQO

MAY 18, 2016

As organizations expand the scope of how they approach innovation, product consultants and user experience consultants have emerged as powerful forces in that initiative. Alpha recently teamed up with Product School to host an event featuring some of the most prominent product consultants in New York.

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DISQO

MAY 18, 2016

As organizations expand the scope of how they approach innovation, product consultants and user experience consultants have emerged as powerful forces in that initiative. Alpha recently teamed up with Product School to host an event featuring some of the most prominent product consultants in New York.

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Modus Create

MAY 12, 2022

In recent years, our consultants have helped several healthcare organizations shift their focus to preventive care and patient outcomes. Mobile development, just like any other craft, requires practice. It’s the developer equivalent of practicing match-day scenarios before the season begins. . Why such an aggressive deadline?

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The teams miss the feedback loops so critical for an agile approach. Their agile transformation falls apart. The developers and testers and anyone else on the product or feature teams. Let's think about how to create agile projects with short feedback loops, not projects that look like waterfall.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

See Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility and Unearthing Your Project's Delays.) That's not product development—and that's the first place we get stuck with Economies of Scale thinking. Product development requires teams who can learn together. But not for knowledge work or product development work.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

The objective is to receive feedback and prioritize it internally against (1) company objectives (2)customer pains/experience (3) Quarterly Product OKRs and ship out solutions. . A feedback loop is: part of a system in which some portion (or all) of the system’s output is used as input for future operations.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

I publish a wide variety of blog posts and books about agility in all forms. In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I offered ways to rethink any given team's approach to agility. The shorter our feedback loops , the faster our users can realize the benefits. We can only offer the outcome to derive the benefit.

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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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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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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

It’s the ultimate interdisciplinary role and is often considered “the glue” that holds a product development team together. The development of any product starts with ideas. It’s important for the product manager to create an effective feedback loop for incoming ideas from the organization. Manage customer feedback.

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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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