Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

See Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility and Unearthing Your Project's Delays.) While everyone realized the entire organization needed to limit their WIP, their decisions still took a long time because all the “support” people (finance, HR, marketing communications, etc) were still centralized.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

  And possibly helpful to Finance, responding to investors’ demands for a hypothetical 2-year cash flow forecast.  ”  “Once Finance tells us how many developers we can hire next year, Engineering can assign teams to possible roadmap items.”   (And the 9000 things we won’t do.) 

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Agile Velocity

OCTOBER 9, 2018

We could give you advice all day on a million different Agile subjects–but we thought it might help to hear from someone who’s been in your shoes. Erik and Will met nearly 7 years ago when they led an Agile transformation in their organization as the Product leader and the Technology leader respectively. Betting On Agile.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 19, 2019

Business innovation is defined in the Path to Agility ® transformation model as the “new ideas, creative thoughts, or novel imaginations that provide better solutions to meet new requirements, unarticulated needs, or known market needs”. . Level: Leadership. Level: Leadership. Implementing Agile Leadership Practices.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

However, some enterprises in high-integrity industries like pharma and finance will invest in their own private AI models to prevent instances like leaking enterprise secrets via ChatGPT. For example, an “agile” methodology that leads to more meetings for developers and reduces the time for deep work won’t be sustainable.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2019

For those of us who’ve stepped into the Head of Product role a dozen times or more, these are clear indications that senior product leadership is missing. Search firms bring us Engineering VPs, GMs, branding agency leads, agile coaches, sales execs… interesting folks who have never lead a product team or been a product manager.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The sales team and leadership promised the clients to deliver the product without having any discussion with the engineering team. The Aviation Authority and leadership were appalled by our product. Even though we called ourselves an agile team, we delivered our product using a waterfall method. No one liked the product.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

Then when I heard his backstory in technology leadership roles at Xerox and Experian and the challenges he encountered with product roadmaps, I was eager to invite him to be a guest on this podcast. An executive or someone in sales or finance cannot understand much from these tools about what product is coming out next month or next year.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. This might be your Scrum Master or an agile coach.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2022

He is also the co-founder of Product Culture—one of his customers said about Bruce, “Coach, trusted advisor, organizational therapist—like me, you’ll probably hire Bruce because of his experience in product management or his skills as an Agile coach.” ” What a great quote. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Centercode

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The Waterfall methodology was king; agile development wouldn’t be a gleam in the eye for another decade. Finally, product development has changed: we’re Agile now. At last count, seven out of ten companies have adopted some form of agile development. Then along came Agile. Not really a thing. Still a pre-teen.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

To remain competitive, organizations must be able to adopt digital transformation strategies that are agile, scalable, secure, and cost-effective. By taking a holistic view of the entire process, organizations can identify areas of improvement and make the necessary changes to become more agile and responsive to customer needs.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 3, 2022

They can present narratives to leadership about the company’s current, past and future needs. Biz ops develop strategies to affect change and then recommend changes to management or leadership, as well as oversee the results. A BizOps and Strategy professional will look at all kinds of raw data to inform their opinions.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. Neither do Finance or HR, or other “Admin” functions. Except, in an agile approach, product management (often via product owners) is an integral part of a high-performing agile team. See Your Current Organization.

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BrainMates

MAY 3, 2020

At this table there will be the finance and accounting specialists looking after shareholder needs, human resource specialists working on behalf of staff; so there needs to be someone who’s there on behalf of the customer. Silos run deep in organisations – something we are all well aware of. What’s next?

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In Part 1 , I suggested that when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. Note that Marketing, Finance, HR, are all part of this product line. I am using the word serve as in servant leadership. I didn’t know anything about agile approaches then.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

So Atlassian IT, together with its HR, Legal, Finance, and Tax teams, launched the Compensation Estimator, an employee self-service tool that calculates an individual employee’s estimated compensation based on differences between their current and intended locations. The business value of the Compensation Estimator data.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Need to radically change a product experience – learn from Yahoo Finance rebellion. The product management team for Yahoo Finance spent the last 18 months conducting user research and learning how to improve Yahoo Finance. create a path to executive leadership. Watch the video above or at https://youtu.be/fnsrDIUWhTg.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2021

When I go to leadership meetings to talk about the product, I’m occasionally asked how long things are taking, or what is stopping us shipping X by Y date, or what is preventing us from reaching a key OKR by the end of the year? Agile, Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, Lean, ShapeUp, Doing just…whatever. the real world. For instance, we have 12.8%

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2019

It got me thinking about how when companies first started adopting Agile methodologies on their software engineering teams, they quickly ran into obstacles with the rest of the organization. It’s hard to be Agile when the rest of the business wants fixed delivery dates or wants to dictate requirements. Improve team effectiveness.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

business models, your product/business, finance, sales, marketing, scaling) 4. Iterative development, scrum/agile/kanban, product roadmaps, QA Technology. understanding business models, finance, sales, marketing, scaling) Every part of the company works together to create and deliver value to its customers. Finance ?—?“

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 9, 2018

Over time, product managers became product owners too, as organizers adopted agile. I would like to see product managers come back into true leadership positions. [17:09] I always encourage MBA students who want to go into product management to take a finance class. [25:26] Kirsten at Pragmatic Marketing. Innovation Quote.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’?—?including including Scrum as a framework?—?work work in a fast-growing startup.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 19, 2021

Persuasiveness and natural leadership. For example, an understanding of how agile development works. You might want to complete a course that earns you the title of Agile Certified Product Manager. They might give an edge to candidates who studied finance or earned an MBA. Communication skills. Creativity.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Part 1 was about how when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. That means we have to change the reward system for managers early enough in an agile transformation to make it easy for the managers to succeed. We understand how agile approaches help teams work better.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 10, 2018

They all have their own agenda’s and pet peeves e.g. engineers want to build things the right way without tech debt even if that takes longer, some designers are hesitant to put a stake in the ground without a bunch of research and testing, data scientists don’t like agile etc etc. marketing, finance, operations, brand etc.?

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Product Culture

MARCH 7, 2018

It leans heavily on ideas and insights from Agile, Design Thinking, Lean, Jobs-to-Be-Done, Customer Centricity, and Innovation practices but is not limited to any one of them. Customer-driven mission Outcome over output or process Leadership over management Team over function Technology is a core asset.

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Oren Steinberg

JULY 13, 2018

Financing (including raising money, budget planning, admin etc.). Now you are ready to move on to finance and try to raise money for this little baby you have in your hands. But if you do survive and make it to the first significant financing, you immediately start the second iteration. You are still in your first cycle.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. Taking HubSpot or maybe Intercom even for example: relatively well funded companies with a relatively happy history when it comes to financing and stuff like that. You get less pressure then.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Agile Boards It’s common for teams to use agile boards with columns like TO DO, IN PROGRESS, TESTING, READY FOR TESTING, DESIGN, DONE, DEPLOYED, etc. Essential functions like legal, compliance, marketing, and finance often get overlooked, considered as mere support rather than integral parts of the process.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

I’m specifically excluding roles that are primarily development management: VP Engineering, CTO, CIO, Director of Development, Engineering Manager, Project Office, or Agile Transformation Leader. It’s no wonder that folks are confused, frustrated, and fail to get the product leadership they need. Sound Byte.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Embracing new technologies like machine learning, micro services, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT) is part of that change, as is the introduction of agile practices including cross-functional and self-organising teams, DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban. Strategy and leadership skills are nice-to-have but not mandatory.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

If you review the product organization image (at the top of this post), you’ll see that a product organization has its own Customer Support, Sales, HR, Finance, Marketing functions in the product line. One of the answers is to break the centralization of functions. No one needs to go to another VP to fix problems.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

  Which makes us want to sit them down for yet another 2-hour lecture on limited capacity, agile, the need for validation, technical debt, architecture, or the physics of building software.   Support’s pain/priority list won’t match Finance’s list or Marketing’s list.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Driving Agile ceremonies, including planning, grooming, demos, and retrospectives. Build business cases, articulate strategy, sell your vision to leadership, understand the market, analyze consumer engagement, lead your team, etc. Secondly, become an advocate for the product team to senior leadership. Director of Product.

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