Johanna Rothman
JANUARY 21, 2021
When I think about agile approaches to work, I think about how fast we can change and the cost of those changes. That's why an agile approach with deliverables every day or week doesn't fit with some kinds of projects, such as events. See the lifecycle series for more information.). Let's start with the team.
Johanna Rothman
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Strategy and Product Feedback Loops Many of my middle-management and senior leadership clients want certainty about future work. Does that sound like an agile team to you? However, managers don't create features as agile teams do. Agile teams don't assume they make a final product the first time out.
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Johanna Rothman
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
I have a new book: Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. I wrote it because I'm concerned about what I see in too many supposedly agile teams: Crazy-long backlogs and roadmaps. A focus on a “standard” agile approach, regardless of how much agility is in that approach.
Agile Velocity
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
As the pace of change continues to accelerate, embracing agility – the ability to turn on a dime for a dime – has become a key to ongoing success for many organizations. However, when companies launch Agile Transformations in hybrid environments, it can introduce a new set of challenges. All fit our definition of hybrid.
The Product Coalition
JULY 24, 2021
In my first article in this series, I posited that the only problem Agile has is that it’s too concise. Since it’s not a prescriptive methodology, but a collection of values and principles, people feel lost when it comes to “becoming agile”. That’s when we could claim to be Agile. We all know the driving license analogy.
Johanna Rothman
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Teams can get some feedback from one feature set to inform the next set—but that's not a primary lever. Of course, there are feedback loops here, too: Notice that we expect feedback from later features back to the previous features. Staged Delivery has feedback loops, too. Release what you have.
Johanna Rothman
MARCH 9, 2021
I said that when we focus on individual achievements and deliverables, we ignore the agile system of work. Worse, when we reward individual achievements we prevent an agile culture. That's because agile teams learn together as they create the product. See Multiple Short Feedback Loops Support Innovation for more information.).
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