Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

What if you can complete a feature set in a couple of weeks, and really have it be done, build and test automation, and any user documentation or internal documentation complete? See Create Your Successful Agile Project for how to use cycle time to reduce the time you spend on estimation.). Make the stories very small and count them.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 15, 2020

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. Agile approaches change what we discuss, how we work together, and what we reward. Release trains.

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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. I wrote about this in Create Your Successful Agile Project.) High Need for Product Innovation and Change.

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Usersnap

JULY 26, 2020

Most developers have no clue about how testing is actually done, and how valuable the understanding of software testing basics can be for developers who really want to excel in their careers. I owe a large amount of the success I have had in my career as a software developer to my background in testing. Click To Tweet.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

TL; DR: Agile Laws and Remote Agile On numerous occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. In that respect, the current issues many distributed teams face may also act as accelerants to become more agile.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The original signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development wanted to solve these specific problems: How can we: Bring more adaptability to software development? Especially since teams now had these levers, from the iterative and incremental approaches: Prototype something for fast feedback. Feature-Driven development.

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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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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 11, 2021

Worse, most career ladders assume we can assess what a person can do, not on their contributions to an agile team. That means most career ladders don't fit agile teams or an agile culture. Instead of individual achievements, we can reward the types of agile leadership we want to see in agile teams. Ask for help.

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Split

JUNE 14, 2024

Receiving this feedback and acting upon it quickly can be the difference between an exiting new product or feature, or a project that is stuck in the mud. By incorporating user feedback loops into your feature releases, you can gain invaluable insights to refine your product and better align it with your customers’ evolving needs.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. In this article, we explore healthy ways for your organization to use metrics to gain meaningful insights into the outcomes of your experiments as you and your teams pursue the craft of creative knowledge work during an Agile transformation.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. In this article, we explore healthy ways for your organization to use metrics to gain meaningful insights into the outcomes of your experiments as you and your teams pursue the craft of creative knowledge work during an Agile transformation.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

They've started to use agile approaches. Capitalization for Agile Work. Let me walk you through an example of a 5-person agile team. I would add demoing in as value creation, but I'm not sure how accountants categorize feedback loops. But, what happens if you don't have an agile project? Why Capitalize?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

These are planning, analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance. Every product and company is one and only you shouldn’t go with the Agile because of its popularity. Feedback Loop Establish a feedback loop with stakeholders to ensure that their evolving needs are considered.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile has been shown to shorten time-to-market, increase quality, instill predictability, improve customer satisfaction, and create an overall happier working culture. Agile Transformation involves all levels of the organization and applies Lean-Agile principles to business processes, practices, tools, operations, and culture.

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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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Mind the Product

AUGUST 9, 2019

No one can be a product manager without being an optimist, but “optimistic” feedback loops can expose real product challenges. Sippey recommends we make use of agile and keep to ordered lists only. It is more fun to work with a designer, report a bug, or talk to customers. Make a list of things to do. Prioritize the list.

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Usersnap

MARCH 24, 2025

Yet, many teams rush into development without properly testing ideas, leading to wasted effort and failed launches. Testing Assumptions Before Development 3. The PDLC typically includes stages such as ideation, design, development, testing, deployment, and post-launch / communication. And its not just for big companies.

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Centercode

MARCH 12, 2021

Take Agile, for example. Eighty percent of today’s tech companies have adopted agile practices — so there must be something to it, right? But not everyone practices Agile the same way. Customer testing programs are the same way. Yes, customer testing is a necessary part of releasing high-quality products.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 22, 2021

Worse, many of these managers also want business agility. Business agility requires change. Test architecture, to shepherd the testing tactics. Monthly or bi-monthly to get the most business agility, assuming your teams can deliver at least once a week. See Multiple Short Feedback Loops Support Innovation.)

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

See Velocity is Not Acceleration or Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details. The fast feedback cycles for the team helps the PO see what to rank next and what might need to change for the product. I am not assuming the team intentionally short-changes the code and tests and creates cruft.

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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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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . However, the case being made in this article is that “Agile is primarily for innovation”.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Agile Development Things don’t necessarily get better with agile development. Agile dev did away with project waterfall?—?Specification On the flip side, many development teams are now fully immersed in “Agile world” that is all about delivering small increments of working code according to strict rituals. Specification

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. In this article, you will find out about Lean product management, its pillars, how it can be implemented and how it differs from Agile, and why it can be considered a better method of managing product development. But it is not the only game in town. Create the MVP.

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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? Start with the Team.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When going through an Agile transformation, Agile teams often feel like they have a good handle on Agile and Scrum. But when asked about their progress toward the business outcomes their organization hopes to achieve by implementing Agile, their answer is not as confident. This is not unusual.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

A well designed experimentation system allows a company to accelerate growth by creating faster feedback loops and enabling progressive delivery. It enables a diverse set of ideas from across the organization to be tested systematically and learnings to be internalized by everyone. Test everything!

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Agile Velocity

APRIL 1, 2024

Agile training and transformation offer a beacon of hope, guiding organizations through these turbulent times with practices that enhance adaptability, customer satisfaction, and team morale. Here’s a look at the top 10 challenges business leaders and teams face today and how Agile principles can address them.

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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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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

an agile and/or digital transformation). They are still part of our code base and need to go through the same testing cycles as those that do add value. a learning opportunity) so that we can start testing something real and tangible at scale using digital tools, and start making data-driven decisions. What should we do instead?

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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. I addressed short feedback loops in Part 2. The test repository. We didn't specifically talk about how to collaborate when writing stories, code, or tests.

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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. Eric calls it the “Build-Measure-Learn” loop. Looping through quickly he calls “fast-cycle testing”. 4) And finally, the term “lean startup” … I prefer the term “fast-product-feedback-loop” instead.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 9, 2021

When I write down, I have the same creative feelings as when I used to write code or tests. I tend to code and test in two modes: Experimentation in problem-solving: Imagining a solution. Writing code and tests. This part requires fast feedback loops in my brain and with colleagues. Running the tests.

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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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Usersnap

MAY 14, 2025

To help you build smarter (not just faster), we sat down with Matt LeMay – author of Agile for Everybody product discovery evangelist, and creator of the One Page / One Hour method – to learn how to keep discovery grounded in real business impact. Its about identifying and testing promising solutions that actually matter fast.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

While some companies prefer to use their MVP as a closed beta for testing only, other lean startups actually launch their MVP as the first version of their product. ?? It has the bare minimum number of features to solve their problem, and is most commonly used as a testing tool only. ?? MVP: Minimum Viable Product ?—?this

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

You might create an image of the feedback loops, as in Unearthing Your Project's Delays. John wrote and ran unit tests on his code. However, he only created happy-path functional tests to see how his code worked with the rest of the system. What about alternative path tests? Visualize the Team's System.

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