Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

If you took an agile workshop sometime in the past 15 years, you probably played the “ ball game.” Especially since they've probably suffered through way too many “agile” workshops with more and more games. We now have a team environment that can use agile principles, but we're not quite done.

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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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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. ” I’ve spent the last half-year in the beginning of my journey understanding how agile product management at scale can work. For agile at scale, I don’t believe this is true.

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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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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

We exercise our personal power (power within) in many ways: when we decide where to live, what to wear, and what to eat. Or even the “standard” agile approach everyone should use. Agile cultures require much more power-with management actions. All decisions are a form of power. We have a ton of personal power.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 15, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. This part is about how people want a recipe, The Answer, for how to get better at “Agile.” ” Before we can address what an answer might be, your need to know your why for an agile approach. Can “Agile” deliver on that?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2021

It could be the creative assets of a marketing team or the process improvement planning of a consultancy. c) Think like your user : An empathy exercise can help the whole team clarify their customers’ and users’ pain points. Even a short empathy exercise can help align the team on the user’s pain points and needs.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2019

Since the beginning of 2019, the Hands-on Agile meetup in Berlin has been exploring how to apply Liberating Structures to Scrum. a 32-pages workbook provided to each attendee all information for the exercises. At the Hands-on Agile meetups before, we tried as a common theme everyone can relate to Berlin’s public transport system.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. 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.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2021

In addition, the more the people around you can exercise their critical thinking skills. Don, a CIO, attempted to “install” a common agile framework. The post Leadership Tip #5: Learn How to Ask for Help appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. These last two ideas help us increase our self-esteem.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 20, 2018

Instead, processes must be agile. In software consulting, the problems are predictability and accountability for your customers. The whole exercise of designing a process is based on solving the problem. Work that is aligned to a process is similar to a habit. They are innovative. They let you move fast.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

”)  Building software is a complex intellectual team exercise, not simply reading specs or typing.  We need to reset our expectation that GTM will be fascinated by the minutiae of discovery, specs, tech debt, agile processes, internal code names (“Project Thor”), geographic failover, or performance metrics.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 29, 2019

The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide Join 5,300-plus agile peers: This ebook covers over 160 Scrum anti-patterns, and it is available for free right here. Troika Consulting proves to be especially helpful at sourcing support at the individual level, for example, from other Development Team members on how to solve a technical issue.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2021

In our specially designed auditions, product managers perform real-world exercises to assess how they think about problems in an environment where nobody from the company knows anything about their experience, their background, or their formal education. Design a new type of exercise equipment for people under the ages of 15.

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Modus Create

APRIL 30, 2020

Modus Create, a disruptive consulting, product strategy and Agile development firm, today announced the release of Modus Kickstart, a structured, facilitated set of workshops and deliverables designed to help customers prepare for a successful software development project.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

And I have a discussion in Create Your Successful Agile Project about backlog items.). No requires that you exercise your leadership. The post Leadership Tip #3: Use No As a Complete Sentence appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. If this is “just” a backlog item, the same ideas apply.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Highly agile and invested grounds and air crew: Such as personality-infused pre-flight safety presentations; employee stock ownership; ground and flight crews well compensated; crews allowed to join unions; crews empowered on any safety issue. Regular people looking to do more exercise. What’s the high $ pain point or unmet need?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

represent speed and agility. Product strategy exists outside the well defined guideposts of dual-track agile (a product discovery and delivery methodology). Making a choice does not always have to be hard How Product Managers and Leaders Can Reduce Complexity The principles of j?d? He did, however, have a few gems.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 14, 2020

Exercise your value-based integrity as a model for the people you lead and serve. The post Modern Management Made Easy Principles—Again appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. (So people can trust you, their colleagues, and the organization as a whole.). Seek outcomes by optimizing for a greater goal. .

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Modus Create

APRIL 4, 2019

Over the next two days, I walked Tim and Mark through some structured exercises to brainstorm different markets. The RACI model separates people into four different roles: responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed. Consulted: must provide information and/or input to complete the project. Show Attendees You Mean Business.

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UX Studio

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We hear the term “Design Thinking” dropped so many times in the consulting world these days, we can’t even keep up with it. Design Thinking consulting. What constitutes Design Thinking consulting? Design Thinking consulting comes into the picture here. reframing complex problems. Design Thinking in Education.

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Product Management 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Who wants to waste time reinventing the wheel when market opportunities require speed and stakeholders are obsessed with agility? We’re taking a bit of a risk sharing these with you, because our consulting work often involves parachuting in to fix implementation challenges. Not so fast!

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UX Studio

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

We hear the term “Design Thinking” dropped so many times in the consulting world these days, we can’t even keep up with it. What constitutes Design Thinking consulting? Design Thinking consulting comes into the picture here. Design Thinking consulting involves fitting the methodology and your needs to each other.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

We were a very successful company for a very short time in the late ’90s, and after we shut down, I was a solo consultant for better part of a decade, and I did some more writing. I see creating conference programs or an editorial agenda for a line of books as definition exercises. So that’s what Argus did.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. Last but not least, the product team should include a coach who might be an experienced Scrum Master , agile coach, or product coach. To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1]

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 29, 2019

Its set of working methodologies is constantly changing (Agile, Scrum, Jobs To Be Done) in relation to product features. Of course, this is not an airy exercise, it has to be based on solid data. But there are many who originate in generalist consultancies. Via research, product people must become advocates for potential users.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

There’s still no real replacement for real-time, dynamic discussions and exercises to foster stakeholder alignment. Berner, 12-year product management career included stints at Pivotal and Betterment, joining the software development consultancy specializing in Lean and Agile. Define goals and anti-goals. Include ownership.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

There are some exercises, they’re called productive disruptions because I think you get more stuff done when you’re stuck by disrupting the patterns and habits that keep you stuck going for a walk, drawing, doing a creative writing exercise. We’re agile, we’re nimble, we’re, we’re playful.

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DISQO

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Brian Lawley has been at the forefront of this effort for nearly two decades, through his renowned consulting and training firm, 280 Group. We needed to say: use this term when discussing business, Agile or technology. In our consulting work it’s where we start realizing that the block and tackle work isn’t being done completely.

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DISQO

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Brian Lawley has been at the forefront of this effort for nearly two decades, through his renowned consulting and training firm, 280 Group. We needed to say: use this term when discussing business, Agile or technology. In our consulting work it’s where we start realizing that the block and tackle work isn’t being done completely.

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DISQO

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Brian Lawley has been at the forefront of this effort for nearly two decades, through his renowned consulting and training firm, 280 Group. We needed to say: use this term when discussing business, Agile or technology. In our consulting work it’s where we start realizing that the block and tackle work isn’t being done completely.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

Mini-research means following agile and pragmatic research principles when time is limited and resources are scarce. Future-Backwards Exercise: Bring relevant stakeholders together to imagine the best and worst possible futures that could happen given the company’s current vision, strategy, and market conditions.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. That first month can’t be spent exclusively on inward-looking agile artifacts. But as Head of Product, I may need to push them.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Read More : Why Engineers Despise Agile ). ?? For whatever reason, the team enlarges the task without prior consulting of the Product Owner. In that respect, visualizing the progress towards the Sprint Goal is a useful exercise. There is no such thing as an agile Nirwana where everything is just perfect.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

 We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.  So for this exercise, let’s posit that reducing current waste by ¼ is possible.   I think serious product discovery and end user validation may be stuck in this cultural/conceptual gap.  Product

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Mike has been in and around startups for the better part of three decades: as a consultant, as a co-founder and now as the Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, which propels new startups into the marketplace. I had done some software consulting. Little did I know, we would actually be here today with quite a large ecosystem.

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