Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

Many of my clients are trying to use short feedback loops in agile approaches. That desire bumps up against their management's desires for longer commitments. High Need for Product Innovation and Change. The more need for product innovation and change, the shorter the feedback loops need to be.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

In that case, you have a low need for product innovation. Your planning feedback loops can be longer. We need short feedback loops in the project/program to see where we are and make small adjustments. Low Need for Product Innovation and Change. I have not worked on many of these products over my career.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops Many of my middle-management and senior leadership clients want certainty about future work. One of these managers said, “I have so much uncertainty and ambiguity. However, I don't do long consulting contracts—by design. In my experience, those are too risky.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When I saw the McKinsey report on “developer productivity,” I shuddered. Second, there's no way to measure such a thing as developer productivity, despite what McKinsey says. Then I read Lorin Hochstein's brilliant assessment in On productivity metrics and management consultants.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

Moderate Need for Product Innovation and Change. When the team can plan—and not need to change its plans—for a couple of weeks at a time, the product has a moderate need for innovation and change. Management doesn't need to see the estimates because the estimates are not for the entire feature set.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 25, 2018

I finally had the transforming idea about how to position the talk: Roadmapping and product planning are about feedback loops. The shorter the feedback loop, the faster and more often we can learn. See the post about Double-Loop Learning.) What do customers want and what do they use in the product?

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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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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. Their products and services did not ship outside the building—their products and services enabled the organization to make money. Show them your feedback loops and your cycle time.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

In innovative products, the interdependencies can change any day. ” There's more in Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management.) I suspect their teams hide their feedback loops. If your product does not need much innovation, you can plan for longer and know you will meet that plan.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2024

I started this series by discussing why managers didn't perceive the value of agile coaches and Scrum Masters in Part 1, resulting in layoffs.) Then, in Part 2 , I asked those unemployed agilists to review their functional skills, the skills people need to do a product development job well. Just look at the manifesto.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 18, 2024

(See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for why this happens.) Remember this: If your customers want to use your product, make it easy for them to do so. Because product problems cause several other problems: The customers have to decide if the aggravation of using this product outweighs the defects.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Boston Consulting Group estimates that 70% of digital business transformation projects fail. When the product met users’ expectations, the entrepreneur continued to develop its functionality.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 11, 2022

However, the more often we deliver in short feedback loops, the more often we can make strategic decisions. Finishing a story creates a new decision point, for both the product and the corporate strategy. The product owner asks the team to finish 5 stories in this iteration. Here's an example. You can change.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops. Instead, what if managers told the team when the managers want to make a decision? The team could deliver enough to help the managers make those decisions. We change the feedback loops. That's the point of all those feedback loops in the image above.).

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

But managers and customers do care about better products. The managers care when the team can release those products—that's why managers use capitalization metrics. And the customers care about the value those products offer. That's why more agility in product development matters.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For years, managers have been trying to find ways to make software product development faster and easier. AI to take the place of humans in product development. But, as an industry, we continue to look for the recipe, the shortcut, the silver bullet, all to decrease the time and cost of product development. (I

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 10, 2020

Your product mostly works. If you only have one tester, the team collaborates to test when that one tester is busy. 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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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Matt Walton was one of the founders of FutureLearn, where he scaled the product team and organisation from nothing to the significant player in online education that it is today. Along the way, he learned a lot about continuous improvement of both the product and the processes for building it – including the use of [.].

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Once the team completes that highest priority feature(s), the team can release the product. Of course, there are feedback loops here, too: Notice that we expect feedback from later features back to the previous features. When we release, we can regroup and figure out what to do next for this product.

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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. See Manage Unplanned Feedback Loops to Reduce Risks and Create Successful Products.) Sometimes, teams can use internal feedback, especially if they work in an organization with component teams.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

Guest Post by: Marvin Mathew (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. Ruthless prioritization translates to product teams spending time building the right thing at the right time. Each feedback loop has a minimum of four stages. The feedback loop process is.

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Userpilot

APRIL 22, 2024

In SaaS, it’s advised to follow customer success best practices to ensure that users achieve their desired outcomes with your product and become loyal advocates for your brand. TL;DR Customer success builds long-lasting relationships, increases customer retention , lifetime value , and advocacy, and informs product development.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

What does it mean for us as product managers? We all use AI or machine learning (ML)-driven products almost every day, and the number of these products will be growing exponentially over the next couple of years. What does it mean for us as product managers? If so, ranking could help.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

What exactly is the product manager role? And the role of a product manager can vary drastically depending on the type of product manager. That’s why we’ve put together a comprehensive post on everything you need to know about the product manager role, including: Responsibilities of a product manager.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2022

In Part 1 , I said that product roadmaps are not like car roadmaps. If I stretch that analogy a little, managers need to see where we are predictable for the next bit of time, and the options we see for the future. Too often, I see very predictable roadmaps for managers. Not every product has the same need for innovation.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 10, 2019

Too many teams have overloaded Product Owners. The teams, PO, management, all think they need big planning. I first discussed the various roles we often need to define and refine the product as we proceed. That was in Product Roles, Part 1: Product Managers, Product Owners, Business Analysts.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 8, 2019

I started this series with the question: If we have teams for all other aspects of an agile approach, why wouldn't we want the product owner to also work as part of a team? Could a team reduce the feedback loop durations? the PRD (Product Requirements Document) to the team. That's why I suggested the product value team.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 29, 2022

My feedback loops are shorter than one day, so I can change what I do next. The post How I Manage My Product Development: Ease with Continuous Flow (Day 1) appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. I build in ease and continuous flow as I proceed to help myself finish.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 9, 2021

That's because agile teams learn together as they create the product. There's an interesting reinforcing feedback loop here: The team learns by working together. The only thing external people can see is the duration of the team's feedback loops. See the Modern Management Made Easy Principles.).

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Despite the content being geared toward the C Suite, something I am still determining if I want to reach, there was a brief diversion on building successful AI products. McKinsey used the word product in a conversation about digital and AI. And while they did spend a hot minute talking about product, that’s beside the point.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

We manage the risks of long-term commitments (decisions) by gaining experience with that person in many circumstances. (I Create a yearly budget as a guideline for our specific goals, but manage that budget every week and month to manage our risks. That's how we manage all our decisions: the Important and the Urgent.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Instead, let's consider how to see management's adaptable and resilient actions. Those actions show that managers change their actions in the face of new information or feedback. And management actions matter the most. Why do I focus on management actions? See Why Minimize Management Decision Time.).

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Centercode

JULY 29, 2020

Begging for feedback from unenthusiastic or inexperienced testers is a frustratingly common occurrence for many beta and delta testing teams. But tester engagement — and the resulting feedback — are both vital to test success. With Centercode, the results are anything but average. Let’s schedule my meeting.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 8, 2020

Doing one of my favorite things—presenting at Mind the Product. Over the past six years, I’ve developed and honed my Continuous Discovery Habits curriculum by reading and writing about the best research on problem-solving , decision-making , and critical thinking. I run a 12-week coaching program for product trios (i.e.

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DISQO

OCTOBER 24, 2019

It’s survival of the fittest for agencies and management consulting firms in 2019. Every one of the ‘Big Four’ consulting firms known for their accounting prowess are now seen as experts in digital. What many savvy consulting leaders continue to realize is that business models are evolving faster than ever.

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DISQO

OCTOBER 24, 2019

It’s survival of the fittest for agencies and management consulting firms in 2019. Every one of the ‘Big Four’ consulting firms known for their accounting prowess are now seen as experts in digital. What many savvy consulting leaders continue to realize is that business models are evolving faster than ever.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Your customers can't take your product more often than once or twice a year. Because the product doesn't need to leave the building, the teams don't release internally. The teams miss the feedback loops so critical for an agile approach. The various people who use the product. Rethink Your Definition of Customer.

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