Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I've met a number of agile coaches recently. Even though the client asked for agile coaching, that might not be what the client needs. Even though the client asked for agile coaching, that might not be what the client needs. These questions have nothing to do with a “better agile” or “better Scrum.”

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

Random Feature Roadmap for One Program. ” 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.

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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. During that workshop, the participants all had the same question, “How do we engage our stakeholders? Adam, a product leader, has changed his meetings and workshops. What do they get out of this partnership?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

During the Definition process, a series of workshops are conducted to review the specific problem to be solved (or Job-To-Be-Done), understand what can be done to fix it, design the physical and technical solution, and prepare for the development sprints to start. As-Is and To-Be scenarios) as part of these workshops.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

What: One-Day Product Leaders Workshop (Roundtable). Possible topics: Managing roadmap interrupts from founders and stakeholder executives. Rich coaches product executives, product management teams and agile/lean development organizations. When: April 16, 2018. Where : Frankfurt, DE . Cohost: Greg Prickril.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 31, 2022

I finished all the video editing for the writing workshop. Because there's more work to finishing the workshop, I'm sure I will not finish the workshop today. However, some teams (and organizations) use backlogs as if they are roadmaps, with every possible idea in the backlog. But I can get ready to finish.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap is constructed to accomplish specific goals critical to the success of the business. The Problem With Outcome-Based Roadmaps. But it is greatly diminished when folks are betting on unrealistic results.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2018

I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. Without knowing why you want to use agile approaches throughout the organization, you can’t generate reasonable measurements.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 11, 2022

Notes from previous workshops I wanted to integrate when I updated those workshops. Over the past year, as I realized the pandemic would probably change what and how I offered for workshops, I've slowly recycled or filed all that paper. The ideas for updating the workshops, not the notes themselves. That's what I'm doing.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Introduction to an Agile Transformation series… I’ve seen several agile transformation challenges. Since I want to address those challenges, this is a series of posts about agile transformation. The problems I’m planning to address are: Understanding why agile, why now. You might have another reason.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

I share my passion for product through workshops, published articles and speaking engagements. I am ready to provide business leaders and product managers the information, access, and expert guidance that they wish they had earlier in their product journey. Interested in having me speak or attend an event? Reach out to me.

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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. The place to see the roadmaps for the longer term. In the early 2000s and into the teens, I led many workshops for distributed teams. The test repository. The defect repository.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

I spoke with an agile coach whose team works in flow, similar to this board. The column on the left, “Stories to Workshop” is their backlog refinement column. Especially on the Workshop column. The PO is so busy, the PO can only grab already-existing ideas/stories off the roadmap. We get faster waterfalls.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team. What Is Product Management Consulting? Consultants aren’t just listening to the problems within the company , but within the product, the team and their dynamics.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

You should therefore help the team acquire the relevant market and domain knowledge—for instance, by involving the team in research and validation work, inviting them to join you when you visit customers— and ensure that they are aware of the product strategy and product roadmap as well as the business goals and KPIs. Learn More.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Topics: Product development lifecycle & success stories, Agile Management & Rapid Prototyping, New product management software & technologies, Usability & interface design, Product manager career: How to rise up in our organization, Hiring the best product managers for the job. Her Product Lab Virtual Summit.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 7, 2018

I’m at the Agile 2018 conference this week. Yesterday, I was scheduled to deliver my Agile and Lean Roadmapping talk at 10:45 am. We don’t change how people deliver their talks/workshops. The post Take Advantage of Project Advances appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. They determine the vision and build a roadmap that will lead their team on a path to achieving goals. In fact, 83.9%

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Josh Fetcher is an author and business consultant. Then, he became a consultant and was recruited by Netflix as VP Product Management (during the period it grew from 2 million to 13 million members). Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. Dotlogics was established in 2007 to create a strong, agile team by combining their web development, creative strategy, and social media expertise. It includes defining the purpose of the new website and having strategic workshops.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. Dotlogics was established in 2007 to create a strong, agile team by combining their web development, creative strategy, and social media expertise. It includes defining the purpose of the new website and having strategic workshops.

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UX Studio

JULY 27, 2022

Book a free consultation with us and let’s discuss your current obstacles and goals. Based on this meeting we’ll prepare a roadmap, which is tailored to your business needs, both time and budget-wise. We see our future clients as partners, so it’s important that the roadmap of the website redesign is suitable for them.

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UX Studio

JUNE 30, 2023

USA; Europe $70 – $90 / hr Website design, UI/UX design, Research, Website Audit, Mobile App Design, Consulting, Expert Review Studio 22 Design Studio 22 Design is a creative design firm located in the San Francisco Bay area. Consulting: Our experts can help you get a holistic overview of your product development process.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 24, 2021

In Part 1 and 2 of this series, I wrote about how an agile approach might offer strategic benefits. And because an agile approach changes your culture, I said the agile approach was part of your strategy. So let's ask this question: Can any tool—agile or otherwise—offer you a strategic advantage? (I

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 16, 2023

When I teach the project portfolio management workshop, we spend a good chunk of time getting all the projects down on cards and then organizing them. But because everyone felt pulled in too many directions, they needed to make some decisions now , even before a portfolio workshop. Their roadmaps tended to be 12-18 months in duration.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

That was the key question I posed in my Agile Cincinnati keynote recently. It thwarts organizations efforts to scale agile product development. Image by EBG Consulting The Five Principles There are five principles that can help you to define your product: 1. What Is Your Product? “So, So, what is your product?”

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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. You might have to be thinking about how your organization is part of an agile process. So he must’ve had a roadmap in there, too.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

The online workshop videos are complete. I also know my cycle times to develop workshops and video them. Have a workshop to decide. You're workshopping.) If you want to “scale” your agility, ask yourself these questions: How can we collaborate at all levels? I'm pleased with my progress. You can, too.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

” is one of the questions I see when I work with people going through an agile transformation. I like to see the questions reflect the why for your organization’s agile transformation. A simplistic qualitative measure of organizational agility). “What should I measure???” What do we want less of?

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

They work with someone, often called a product manager, to create roadmaps for the longer term. See the roadmap series. But that's not what I see in my consulting. In that case, consider when you will: Work with the team, to workshop stories and plan the next bit of work. Please do see the roadmap series.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

This practice is clogging the Product Backlog, may lead to cognitive overload and makes alignment with the ‘big picture’ at portfolio management and roadmap planning level very tough.) need a workshop on writing user stories.) The Product Owner should also never abort a Sprint without consulting the Development Team first.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

I am now in the Product Team at Publicis Sapient and absolutely loving the Consultancy world. We bring a startup mindset and agile methods to both established companies and the public sector to unlock value in ways that delight their customers and improve their operational effectiveness. What is your background?

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 2, 2019

At workshops for product leaders, we often discuss different approaches to implementing major organizational changes within product management teams and adjacent groups (e.g. No need for market validation, ROI calculators, competitive analysis, per-seat pricing models, or multi-release roadmaps. Engineering).

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

They’ll come to a workshop or they’ll do somebody else’s training and they want everybody in the company to work the same way. ” There’s this tenet from the Agile Manifesto that’s really important, which is that each team owns the way they work and they’re constantly iterating on it to make it better.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

project managers or SMEs guiding roadmaps) A Product Development Health Check can help identify issues in your product development practice, find the underlying causes and give you ideas about how to address them. How well do product technology choices support the product strategy and current roadmap?

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DISQO

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Even with workshops and extensive onboarding, it takes anywhere from three to six months for clients to reach that bandwidth. But the overwhelming majority is consumed as a product team culturally and practically shifts from waterfall to agile experimentation, recognizing that planned research pales in comparison to iterative research.

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