Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

They could find the details in their defect tracking system, but they had no idea of the magnitude of the problem, where the problems lay, or how long they took to fix anything. See What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Most of the requirements-based defect escapes were due to changed requirements. Makes me nuts.

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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

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. In this case, the project team had no automated tests. These product people executed manual tests. Worse, they only tested the happy paths. Automated Tests Are About Feedback.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 10, 2020

That's brittleness in the system. 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.). 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

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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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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

I discovered that I must research and understand the entire system and process, problem solve with my team, and share lessons learned. My career started at Hewitt Associates which was a human capital and management consulting firm that operated 500 offices in 120 countries. Background. As a result, our backlog decreased by 50%.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Ten people, seven of them professionals, are at work on the problem, but the system is the product of one mind–or at most two, acting uno animo.” Yes, the premise of my Agile and Lean Program Management book.) Notice the reduction in test time in the middle of the three images. The quote I found most useful was on p.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

The book covers a wide range of topics, from user research and interaction design to information architecture and usability testing, making it perfect for absolute beginners with no design background. The importance of user testing and iterative design. Simplifying the process of usability testing to make it accessible to everyone.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 28, 2018

Many new-to-agile teams use some form of iteration-based agile approach. Back in Time You Spend in Agile Meetings (near the bottom of the post), I enumerated all the possible meetings. I suggested the team review its WIP limits and think about limiting the WIP for the entire team. Often, in the form of Scrum.

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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. Perhaps you worked on a digital strategy or an IT system change.

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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. Perhaps you worked on a digital strategy or an IT system change.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 2, 2022

I see this most often in products similar to the Integrated System Program kind of product. The platform (the bottom layer) offers some common services, possibly even an operating system type of services. Those features need more tests and more review. Now, their technical debt has come due.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Deadline and Unclear Scope vs. Agile: Project Challenges We Faced When starting a new project, its manager, obviously, needs to carefully map all the steps, from project planning to its release, and even further. They had spent a lot of time choosing the technological stack and discussing technical solutions with outside consultants.

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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

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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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. out of 5 stars. Where to buy?

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 13, 2021

See Aging Fun with Drunk Agile.). Here are some ways of thinking about how to make this ad hoc work transparent: I do recommend a ticketing system just for production support issues. The ticketing system would only have blockers, crashes, and other stop-the-presses kind of work. Let's first talk about visualizing all the work.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 5, 2023

Peter is an experienced speaker, educator, and consultant with over 40 years of experience leading teams and organizations to deliver value through projects. One project I worked on was the installation of telephone billing systems. The telephone company used the telephone billing system to generate invoices to get revenue.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

  They are coming off customer calls, strategy sessions, renewal discussions, marketing automation planning sessions, compliance reviews, and industry analyst briefings that highlight improvements that must be made.  Crack the WIP Agilists and systems thinkers call this the WIP/Work in Progress.  There’s

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A Product Development Health Check is like a fitness test for your product development practice. 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. Is there clear responsibility and accountability?

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Modus Create

MARCH 6, 2020

Honestly, however, vendor-lock is far less a problem than the cost of not pursuing a cloud-based agile digital transformation strategy. The Serverless Framework is a cloud-provider agnostic system that supports AWS, Azure, Tencent Cloud, Google Cloud, Cloudflare, Alibaba Cloud and twillo. Both are open source. cd sam-app sam build.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

 We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.  Better automated testing addresses quality, not market adoption.  Building  We simplify problems, minimize system complexity, and jump to ‘obvious’ solutions.  We Enough preamble.  Here’s

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

In my experience, if you don't offer people autonomy for their work, they will game the system. When teams collaborate and focus on creating running tested features that work, the teams make real and fast progress. Your customers only care about running, tested features. They're reading/reviewing the product and thinking.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The timesheet was due on Friday at 2pm. In Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation , I explained the desire for capitalization. Project 3: Review for Rick. Project 4: Final test with hardware people. Ticket Systems Try to Track State Changes. That's why ticketing systems don't reflect reality, either.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 2, 2021

” When Susan, the agile project manager, started the next day, she took a picture of the paper. The team reviews their team satisfaction data every retrospective. The build system takes too long. There aren't enough automated regression tests. This organization wanted what agile approaches offered.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. I got my master’s in computer science back in Prague, then I ventured into the world of consulting and spent several years at Accenture.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Apologizing in advance: I’m intentionally exaggerating the differences between two broad corporate groups: wildly oversimplified roles and attitudes and reward systems.  Each  There are no secret resources or hidden teams or magic agile improvements or underutilized developers.  Very  Very few freebies.  And

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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. Why the Ishihara Test? The Ishihara Test, created by Japanese ophthalmology researcher Shinobu Ishihara in 1917, remains the most popular way to test for colorblindness. Set a Goal.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Here are some aspects of technical excellence for internal quality: Ease and speed of the build system. Ease, coverage, and speed of unit test automation. Ease, coverage, and speed of system test automation. Readability of code and automated tests. How much manual testing you need. I’ll stop there.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2020

Consulting your symptoms with Google and finding out that you have one week left to live. Should we be using agile methods? Due to the nature of data we had, in some cases, the prediction was based on a relatively small data set. You know what is the one thing that happens all the times? Try to avoid that ?? We need an xAI?—?explainable

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Show the System. That image is from Create Your Succesful Agile Project.) Once you've written a line of code (or a paragraph in a book), you figure out how to integrate any new lines into the current system. Mob on all work so you reduce the team's WIP and get immediate code and test review.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Agile vs. agile. Are you Agile, or are you agile?” Adopting Agile methodologies like Scrum , Kanban , eXtreme Programming , or some combination of the above has been a trend, or some might say a craze, affecting digital product management for many years. due to regulatory restrictions.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

AUGUST 8, 2022

Technical rounds include coding and system design. You are being tested according to Google’s four hiring attributes. The team matching process can happen before or after the hiring committee review. Step 5: Hiring Committee Reviews A hiring committee will determine if you’re a good fit or not.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Then, we have monthly reviews of what we’re shipping and reflect on whether we’re hitting our goals. Our customer partners are Amplitude users that we consult with regularly and work closely and collaboratively with each other. To make the feedback actionable, we need a system for collecting and tracking it.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 26, 2019

You want a more agile approach to manage the interdependencies among the teams. Each team has the capability to build and test the entire product at all times. In another program, the program manager realized that while each team “finished” inside of a day, their final system test for each feature took two more days.

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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. Our shorter services are Expert Review , UX Audit , and Product Discovery.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

For software engineers, these rounds will be focused on coding, system design, and behavioral questions. Amazon's on-site interview will involve several rounds of technical interviews consisting of many coding and system design questions. If all goes well, software engineering candidates will be invited to the on-site interview.

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