Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

Let me address a little about business agility and innovation. Business agility allows us to create a culture where we plan to change. Too many people think business agility is about the ability to do more of the same, faster. Instead of optimizing for a team's agility, we can encourage management agility with flow efficiency.

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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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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

I joined Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson on their No Nonsense Agile Podcast to talk about the problem with sales-led development.  

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Agility and adaptability are paramount The business landscape is constantly evolving, and trends can shift rapidly. Digital transformation fosters agility by enabling businesses to adapt quickly to changing market conditions, customer preferences, and new technologies. Seek expert guidance from consultants or technology providers.

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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

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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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. That's an example of how insidious resource efficiency thinking is. Why do I have to play a game?”

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Ron Jeffries, Matt Barcomb, and several other people wrote an interesting thread about prescriptive and non-prescriptive approaches to team-based agile. If you don’t want to read the entire thread, here is a summary: People often need help with their agile approach. That’s why we have the agile values and principles.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

About the author Steve Krug is an independent web usability consultant and author of several UX design books. Leah Buley provides a toolkit of methodologies, strategies, and tactics that are particularly useful when resources are limited. Key Learnings Techniques for effectively conducting UX research and design with limited resources.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Credit: Austin Distel Startups reading the wrong resources waste months with the wrong methods. Competitive analysis: “Blue ocean” (Kim, Mauborgne) Don’t get stuck into consulting matrixes. Work with engineers: “Agile Product Management with Scrum” (Roman Pichler) There are zillions ways to apply scrum.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

If you read my scaling agile series , you can see that becoming an agile organization requires seeing your organization as a system with a culture. If you don’t also address the cultural problems of rewards, you won’t continue with your agile transformation. Do join us at the Influential Agile Leader.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

” These people claim there is no need for either role in an effective team, especially an agile team because the team can manage its own deliverables. While some agile teams can manage their own deliverables, that's not the only role for a project or program manager. No one sees the big picture. However, we still had uncertainty.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) idea is central to the lean / agile methodology Get feedback as soon as possible. Sodexo, a workplace consultancy, labeled the “agile organization” as its top global workplace trend in a report issued at the end of 2017. Most startups I see are disciples of the Lean approach, my own included.

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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

With no university degree course or global certification standards, most practitioners step into being a PM from areas like Engineering & Agile Operations. Answering questions like these will save time, money and resources that can be utilised elsewhere. The Product Management profession itself is still relatively new.

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Product Club

JUNE 10, 2017

Across the globe, companies are investing in Agile transformations primarily for two reasons — to increase speed, and improve the quality of their technical product delivery. We’ve all been sold “Agile” for over 10 years, told to treat “waterfall” as a curse word to be uttered with disgust in boardrooms. Additional Resources.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Now, it's time for Economies of Scale and how that ties into resource efficiency thinking. Resource Efficiency Thinking Traps Many Managers And I said the managers were not stupid. They used resource efficiency to make project portfolio decisions. Resource efficiency focuses on each person's contribution to the whole.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 10, 2020

A lean startup coach and founder of innovation consultancy Kromatic – Tristan also currently serves on the ice cream innovation board at Unilever! 40:42 | What are good examples of teams who have effectively scaled their product organisations with multiple levels of product managers and multiple agile teams? Question 1 .

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 8, 2018

I had a great time recording with two of the guys from the Agile Uprising Podcast. See Create Your Successful Agile Project with Johanna Rothman. I had an opportunity to rant and rave about many things: agile project managers (no, the term is not an oxymoron). We discussed the book. I had a great time with Jay and James.

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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

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.). And, watch for resource efficiency thinking, not flow efficiency thinking. Also, the teams find it tempting to think of the common GUI and API as components. The Series.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

.” If managers realize the teams don't have the tools, the time, the hard resources—whatever the teams need—the managers might rethink what they ask of the teams. Realize that an agile culture starts with the questions the managers pose and the answers they need. Teams would not multitask.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

FTE for full-time Equivalent (as in human beings!) “Resources” instead of the words: people, or human beings Construction metaphors, such as: build, which describes how we organize and create a usable product. When we talk about man-weeks, or FTEs, or resources, when we mean human beings, we make it possible to be less congruent.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2022

Questions were my business as a consultant. using my best-consulting delay tactic. “I The agile product life cycle started with ideation/discovery. It’s about marshaling resources to deliver a functional product over multiple releases. So what exactly is product strategy? I snapped out of la la land. The reaction?—?an

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Most of Barry’s consulting work comes from Fortune 500 companies or from heavily funded scaling startups in San Francisco and around the globe. The content has now been distributed through the region, and incorporated into different learning resources- in Australia for example, it’s become the National Digital Learning Resource.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 23, 2022

Up until now, HR wanted to reward an individual's contribution, thinking in terms of resource efficiency. Even if you're not part of an agile team, highly collaborative teams have trouble identifying who contributed what. My various consulting offerings. It depends on what the managers reward. Learn with Johanna.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 27, 2023

Since retiring, Sally has started her own consulting business, Strategic Product Development, which focuses on the front end of the innovation process. 21:48] How do winners resource front-end innovation? They don’t have enough resources for all the projects and really have to prioritize.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

That's why I wrote Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. ) Too often, that means people work in resource efficiency, not in flow efficiency. If you can use a Gantt chart and you find it valuable, that's fine. However, I find late feedback loops deadly to forward progress.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 7, 2020

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. This saves companies valuable time and resources. Rightpoint. Watch the full video here. Kin + Carta.

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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. Key learnings.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 16, 2020

Historically, jobs in investment banking or management consulting have been the popular choice for MBA graduates in the US. In fact, in product management has surpassed consultant as the most popular job among US MBA graduates. Joni is a product management consultant and coach with 30 years of experience. “I

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 29, 2021

The show page has key takeaways and links to many of the resources we mentioned in the podcast. The post Listen to Dan and Me on the AgileThought Podcast 116 appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. We had a lovely conversation about the Modern Management Made Easy books.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Partner, Not Stakeholder The more business agility you want, the more partnerships across the organization you need. That does mean your organization needs to use the idea of flow efficiency over resource efficiency. Not just in management cohorts but in creating allies so you can complete work.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

You don't want to reinforce resource efficiency, even though you rewarded the person for that all along. You now realize that if you want an agile culture, you want the team to collaborate. Back when we thought in resource efficiency terms, we might have made the mistake of thinking we could have 10x developers (or testers or DBAs).

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