Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Maybe you need feedback from customers. 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. Ask customers for feedback.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

Many of my clients are trying to use short feedback loops in agile approaches. The more need for product innovation and change, the shorter the feedback loops need to be. ” for at least these reasons: The act of estimation takes time away from doing the work and getting the feedback.

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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. We know what we have to do.

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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. See the post about Double-Loop Learning.)

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

“Agile” as a way to do much more work in much less time. (NO! That's because they don't have unplanned feedback loops as in the image on the left. That means integrating code review and testing as part of the team's collaboration. Agile approaches work, especially if you focus on reducing cycle time.

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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?

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 11, 2022

However, the more often we deliver in short feedback loops, the more often we can make strategic decisions. The more often we iterate strategically, the more we exhibit business agility. The shorter the feedback loops, the easier it is to use what we finished to make a new decision about the next bit of work at all levels.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. See Customers, Internal Delivery, And Trust for a recent post about demos and trust.) See TBM 8/52: The Problem With “Internal Customers ”. That's why the duration of the internal feedback loops is so important.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

How product managers can use the Modified Agile for Hardware Development Framework. They think they have the answer for applying Agile principles to hardware projects, and they call it the Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework. It starts with describing the customer experience through user stories.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 18, 2024

You have several options: Separate the customer-facing problems from all the other ideas. Implement or Fix Customer-Facing Problems When customers report problems, how does your organization react? Implement or Fix Customer-Facing Problems When customers report problems, how does your organization react?

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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. But managers and customers do care about better products. And the customers care about the value those products offer. The more agile the approach, the faster the team can deliver value to the customers—without late learning.

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

More of my clients say they want business agility. Yet, we don't share a common definition of business agility. Those actions show that managers change their actions in the face of new information or feedback. Those actions show that managers change their actions in the face of new information or feedback.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Your customers can't take your product more often than once or twice a year. The teams miss the feedback loops so critical for an agile approach. Their agile transformation falls apart. Rethink Your Definition of Customer. What if we expanded our thinking of “customer”?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 10, 2020

If you only have one tester, the team collaborates to test when that one tester is busy. This is any lifecycle, not just an agile approach.). Shorten Feedback Loops. Next, I suggested that the team find ways to shorten their feedback loops , in Part 2. I suggested that first, you see your feedback loops. (I

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A few guiding principles include: Get to your users as soon as possible. The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) idea is central to the lean / agile methodology Get feedback as soon as possible. What is natural to users? Eric calls it the “Build-Measure-Learn” loop. Looping through quickly he calls “fast-cycle testing”.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 16, 2019

I suggested ways to think about more agile budgeting in part 1. My feedback loop is one month at the outside. ” Annual budgeting constrains the project portfolio ideas and work to a one-year feedback loop. ” Annual budgeting constrains the project portfolio ideas and work to a one-year feedback loop.

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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. Companion apps have helped users in self-diagnosis, allowing them to seek proactive treatment. Many healthcare organizations also use companion apps to help their users fight addiction. .

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

By themselves, a customer can't use an output. Some examples: Tasks in a user story, such as “design database schema.” ” Or “write test plan.” Because until you finish the testing, you don't know that anything is complete. It's the same idea with tasks in a user story.

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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

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. As a user, I enhance my productivity.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 10, 2019

They're not living the principles of the agile manifesto. If you work in either a small startup or an agency where you deliver work for hire, you might have a PO who interacts with the customer. You might be lucky to have a real customer to work with. What kind of collaboration do you need to create short feedback loops?

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

The product manager role is responsible for understanding what customer problems to solve and what success looks like for a product. The upsides of product management include the fact that every day is different, you get to work with technology, it sets you up to be an empathetic leader and you get to see customers use what you created.

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DISQO

OCTOBER 24, 2019

It’s survival of the fittest for agencies and management consulting firms in 2019. Every one of the ‘Big Four’ consulting firms known for their accounting prowess are now seen as experts in digital. What many savvy consulting leaders continue to realize is that business models are evolving faster than ever. Outcomes Over Hours.

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DISQO

OCTOBER 24, 2019

It’s survival of the fittest for agencies and management consulting firms in 2019. Every one of the ‘Big Four’ consulting firms known for their accounting prowess are now seen as experts in digital. What many savvy consulting leaders continue to realize is that business models are evolving faster than ever. Outcomes Over Hours.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

“Mind-meld” with the users. You might create an image of the feedback loops, as in Unearthing Your Project's Delays. The team's fault feedback ratio, the ratio of bad fixes to total fixes. See Fault Feedback Ratio. Their fault feedback ratio ranged from 20-50%. What about alternative path tests?

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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. I'm assuming these MVPs describe the customer outcome or problem.)

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2022

In Agile and Lean Program Management , I suggested two other views of large products. Your customers care about when they will get features. See Create Feedback Loops (Agile Approaches) for Hardware Products.). Also, the teams find it tempting to think of the common GUI and API as components.

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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. They do have some constraints, such as “this kind of customer” and “these kinds of problems.” I'm fond of multiple short feedback loops so people can change their minds in the face of new data.

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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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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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The Product Coalition

MAY 8, 2018

Then sharing openly the lesson learnt from the false start with the previous team may be an incentive to test the new partner against the challenges you have had faced before by listening to their feedback, assessing their know-how and attitude. If you need advice on how to do precise research on software houses?—?feel

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

We know what we want to happen, we do lots of research and planning, put in the work, and then wait to see if the results match our expectations. Assumptions —Every idea needs to be validated with actual paying customers. Many companies can solve customer problems. Which outcomes really matter to your company and your customers?

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