Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

Brief description of the problem at a recent client: Person A checked in code that broke an “unrelated” part of the system. I'll call this checking in code in Email that broke Search. They had one piece of feedback: the checkin broke “unrelated” code. Those are examples. Neither did the team.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 30, 2020

At every Business of Software Conference we record all the speakers’ presentations so that you can learn from the array of talks on offer to our attendees. Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor.fm, and more – don’t forget to leave a review on Apple Podcasts recommending us to the world! Upcoming Events.

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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 Join the 25th Hands-on Agile meetup on August 20, 2020, to explore the virtual Ecocycle Planning.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Now, we’re putting all our product management software on the table to give you an inside look at our tech stack within three categories: analytics, product development, and communication. Then, we have monthly reviews of what we’re shipping and reflect on whether we’re hitting our goals. That’s just the product management side.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

UX studio is one of the global innovation design consulting firms focusing on UX design, research, and strategic consulting. We researched the top design consulting firms’ competency level, experience, and portfolio to define the most reliable design thinking companies you can trust and partner with in 2021. UX studio .

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

To ensure you take a holistic approach, review these five key elements of your product development practice: Mindsets Organisation Practices Tools and Technologies Financials 1. We believe that Agile software development practices are some of the best at helping reduce waste and support great product development.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 10, 2020

This is any lifecycle, not just an agile approach.). I used the image from Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation as a way to think about the feedback loop realities in a serial approach.). (I I recommended various ideas with “testing” in their names (TDD, BDD, ATDD). Shorten Feedback Loops.

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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. Or, a product that's not software/hardware?

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Pragmatic Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

What do you call a process that has multiple complex steps, requires detailed explanation and dogmatic adherence to rigid tenets defined by expensive consultants? If you aren’t using story points, spending hours building a backlog, reviewing burndown charts and using appropriate terminology, you’re “doing it wrong.”

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. It is important to note that most PM job postings ask for prior PM experience.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. It is important to note that most PM job postings ask for prior PM experience.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Here I aim to show how experience, respect for discipline, and an insistence on following good project management practices can go a long way to help to develop successful software projects in spite of many challenges. To be clear, we will not discuss how to start a software development project or which steps you should take to kick it off.

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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 Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen is a practical guide on implementing the Lean Product methodology based on years of Olsen’s consulting work. out of 5 stars. 5 out of 5.

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Modus Create

MARCH 6, 2020

A very real example of Digital Transformation causing a massive shift in culture and business. With the relentless pace of innovation using Lean software development, we’ve seen an explosion in the use of serverless technologies with a mantra of “NoOps.” 1 And the gap is significant: 46 times more frequent code deployments.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. See Agile Program Measurements to Visualize and Track Progress and Measure Cycle Time for my suggestions of what to measure.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Too many teams have a built-in dependency creator—code review. When we take time to perform code review after we write the code (or the tests), we create dependencies between the people on the team. Instead, we can consider a more holistic approach to code review and abolish those dependencies.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 4, 2020

A Remote Daily Scrum with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. Consultants and the consultee have the initial conversation; then, the consultee turns around on his or her chair for the consulting phase.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders. I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Expect practical tips, real-life examples (including rubber ducks and naked ninjas!), About the author Steve Krug is an independent web usability consultant and author of several UX design books. About the author Steve Krug is an independent web usability consultant and author of several UX design books. Get the book.

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Modus Create

JUNE 30, 2021

Emerging technologies, prioritization of workforce culture, and the need for shorter, more cost-effective engagements are making legacy consulting models obsolete. The rise of digital transformation has coincided with the decline in management consulting. For the longest time, consulting was synonymous with management consulting.

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UX Planet

MARCH 7, 2024

This limitation affects not just the quality of design but also the efficiency and innovation of the team, leading to higher costs over time due to inefficiencies and the potential need for external consultations or interventions. In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, agility and efficiency are key to staying ahead.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. There will be less time to support teammates or to do pair programming, for example. For example, the team might also consider who will be pairing with whom on what task. Professional Scrum Master Training?—?Training

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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. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates?

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

I have some example bios below for people with a couple of years of experience. As a consultant, she’s led hundreds of workshops, delivered talks and keynotes around the world, and dipped her toes into Pecha Kuchas. As for certifications, as I write this in 2019, the agile community has too many framework battles. Never do that.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2022

A colleague unfamiliar with lifecycles or agility asked, “How can we use sprints in this approach?” See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.). Several events, such as “Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective” (quoted from the Scrum Guide).

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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. For example, we knew we couldn’t claim that our app provides a final diagnosis to users. For example, we didn’t want to overcompensate for physical distance by having too many meetings.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

For example, the Product Owner increases the scope of a requirement. The Product Owner should also never abort a Sprint without consulting the Development Team first. It just feels good to solve yet another puzzle from the board, here: coding a new task. It is the prerogative of the Product Owner to cancel Sprints.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

There are seven important things to look for when picking a UI designer for your project including their portfolio, design files, how they explain things, their curiosity, and how they describe examples of good design. While reviewing their design files, ask yourself the following questions: Is the folder structure organized and intuitive?

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Aplana is a privately held software development company that has been on the market for 20 years. Its offices are located in different countries, including the UK, US, and Germany for sales operations and Ukraine, Russia, Belarus for skilled software engineering teams. . Wandr studio. Echo & Co. Design First. Fuzzy Math.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Due to the growing tendency of backing technology businesses, a software startup could raise millions of dollars of funding in their earliest stages of development. Many of those companies would spend that money on building their software without sufficiently interacting with their customers.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. If your roadmap shows 20% confidence in its information after three months and it hasn’t been reviewed and updated in four months then it is probably useless. Further Reading.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 16, 2019

In an Agile world full of cloud-based solutions, there’s no shrink-wrapped container full of widgets that truly signifies completion. And, there’s always an opportunity to ship code that is far from a “finished” product. Code is checked in. Code is deployed to test environment. Code/feature passes regression testing.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I always felt if the software was bad, I had this physical pain and I really wanted to help. I always felt if the software was bad, I had this physical pain and I really wanted to help. There were so many seniors to help us juniors learn how to be an employee and how to be a good consultant. Tweet This. Congratulations!

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2020

Unlike classic software engineering where you insert an input and you expect an output, machine learning products are probabilistic, and one time you may get one answer and on the other time the opposite one. Consulting your symptoms with Google and finding out that you have one week left to live. Should we be using agile methods?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 4, 2020

The metric was originally developed by Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company, and Satmetrix, and it was introduced by Reichheld himself at Harvard Business Review in 2003. Here are some examples to illustrate the process. Adobe’s example of using NPS with a qualitative question. Contact him via contact@productguy.io.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 9, 2018

But building good enterprise systems is prone to failure, as author and product consultant Sam McAfee has recently pointed out. For example, our Competence Centre Inventory Management co-owns merchandise availability (an important KPI for every retailer) with the merchandise planners. At Zalando, we changed this.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

This is a common example of risk theater.) Created Gantt charts even though the team worked in an agile way. Waited for other people to review his work. The managers reinforce people as experts, which is an example of resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. He now pointed them to the done-and-not-released chart.

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