Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On the ANE panel last night, an agile coach asked, “What's my path forward as an agile coach? I said that if the coach wanted to move up the hierarchy in the organization, the coach needed some form of management experience. Experience helps us see and feel the pressure our clients have. What do I do next?”

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

David Bland is the CEO and Founder of Precoil, an author, and a long-time practitioner of agile and lean startup. He joined us on the podcast to talk about how to create focus around what matters to your users by using different testing methodologies – a topic he and Alex Osterwalder cover in their book, Testing Business Ideas.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Agile just turned twenty-one, but don’t put away that fake ID yet. Ever since the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001, the concept of becoming more efficient by embracing iterative delivery models and “learning-on-the-go” has captivated senior executives to junior project managers alike. This concept is also easy to teach.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2021

As I've been speaking about the Modern Management Made Easy books, people ask these questions: We're pretty good with our agile approach. It's time for performance reviews. Can we extend whatever that is to our hiring effort? These people tell me their career ladder doesn't work to enhance agility. Became a consultant.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2024

Challenging an emerging myth that Agile is dead, and providing insight on key principles & tactics to finding success with Agile-based product teams. Nowadays it seems to have an opinion of Agile product methods like Scrum. Agile methods like Scrum are not a one-size-fits-all framework.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 25, 2023

Agile antipatterns or scrum antipatterns are (poor) practices that are utilized to enhance a process. Nonetheless, they impede your efforts and slow your progress towards attaining Agile objectives, thereby achieving the opposite effect. List of destructive agile antipatterns and how to avoid them 1.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

In this talk from #MTP Engage Manchester consultant Itamar Gilad takes us through his GIST (goals, ideas, steps, tasks) framework. Itamar has over 20 years of product management experience working with industry leaders such as Google and Microsoft. He’s now a consultant, speaker and writer. Three Types of Launch. Enter GIST.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2021

So when does it make sense to customize your agile approach to gain a strategic advantage? Their customers are the users. (No No one buys on behalf of the users.). They want an agile approach, so they started with Scrum. As AR&D work, they realize they need to experiment in short feedback cycles.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2018

In 2013, before Shared Parental Leave was a thing in the UK, I decided that I wanted to change my work-life balance from full-time to a four-day working week with one day of childcare. Part-time product manager roles are rare, but luckily I worked for an employer who was open to the idea. Becoming More Efficient.

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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.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 18, 2021

They think that the agile tools they use, such as boards, offer a strategic advantage. So they build or customize their tools. However, they adopt or “install” an agile framework or process without customization. Instead, agile organizations need flexibility, not rigidity. What is our purpose?

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The managers (often with the assistance of a consultancy) decided Scrum was the answer. Those outcomes can help teams decide which agile approach(es) to start with and adapt. Let's start with who wants the teams to use an agile approach. Who Wants the Teams to Use an Agile Approach? What's wrong? Aside from everything??).

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2019

Few people have more experience in leading product teams than Joff Redfern. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. and Fidelity Investments. – US / UK / DE.

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Mind the Product

JULY 16, 2019

Rich Mironov got his start in product with a a single, very demanding customer: Apple. Realising it would be safer to diversify, he’s gone on to spend the last 30-plus years working with more than 90 organisations across the world in interim leadership roles and consulting. Listen if you’d like to learn more about.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

How product managers can use the Modified Agile for Hardware Development Framework. They think they have the answer for applying Agile principles to hardware projects, and they call it the Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework. It starts with describing the customer experience through user stories.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 24, 2021

In Part 1 and 2 of this series, I wrote about how an agile approach might offer strategic benefits. And because an agile approach changes your culture, I said the agile approach was part of your strategy. So let's ask this question: Can any tool—agile or otherwise—offer you a strategic advantage? (I

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2022

Why our industry needs Product Coaches Photo by Jeffrey F Lin on Unsplash Something I’ve observed over the last couple of years has been the rise in product coaching, also referred to as Product Management Consulting or Product Leadership Coaching, among others. But ‘times-are-changin’. PwC job ad from Linkedin?—?looking

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2019

If we implement a new feature, how will customer behavior change in a meaningful way?”. That’s why we asked Josh Seiden , a well-known product consultant and author, to join us on the podcast. We wanted to jump into this hot topic to see if we could marry our practical experience with Josh’s framework. Short on time?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

TL; DR: The Cargo Cult Agile Checklist for Download You want to know the state of agility in your organization? It will only take 5 minutes of their time–and then analyze their feedback. If the average number of checkboxes marked is higher than nine, then you are probably practicing cargo cult agile in one form or another.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 25, 2020

They frustrate our users, ruin the best-laid plans, and screw up our sprints. What’s better, unit tests or user acceptance testing? The post Building Quality Products – Stacy Kirk on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. What’s better, unit tests or user acceptance testing?

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

The day we reached 200 daily users was a critical milestone – more a psychological one for me personally than anything else. Local businesses paid us to be on our website, and people told us that it saved them time. We refined the message and added features important for our partners and users. Let’s go Agile!

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 26, 2021

They think agile approaches are tactics and agile tools are part of their strategy. That's why they want to Buy an agile approach. And that's why they want to Customize and then standardize on tools. Worse, the longer they maintain their custom board, the more they spend on that internal product. Please allow this.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2021

One of my clients wants to use shared services “teams” as they start their agile transformation. Their developers work on a product for months and years at a time. The customers wait for something useful. They're wasting time, which costs much more than the salary costs. ” Don't use an agile approach.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Mostly I have been on the consulting side, meaning I have always had to hand over what I have built to someone else. He said: This may, in time, require fewer people called product managers in a company, but it puts even more emphasis on the importance of the craft of product management. And product coaching is how we get there.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Back in Part 1 , I wrote about how stage-gate approaches were as agile as we could use at the time. We had one delivery, so our agility was about canceling the project if we couldn't finish it. We could get feedback on prototypes—from the customer. My managers were smart but didn't understand how to spiral time.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Leading as the Head of Product A head of product is someone who manages a group of product people, individuals who look after a product or a product part—like an end-user-facing feature—and who might be called product managers or product owners. Know when to delegate. See Peter G. See Peter G. Northouse, Leadership: Theory and Practice.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Many of those companies would spend that money on building their software without sufficiently interacting with their customers. However, since the initial investments were usually not enough for customer acquisition, startups needed additional funding to grow their operations.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

In this role, Gaudio drives the strategy behind roadmap management, agile product development, and cross-functional communication. Harpal now works as an independent consultant and interim Chief Product Officer (CPO) advising companies and teams globally on strategic product development and innovation. The Best Product Consultant.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. We spend our time arguing about titles or rehashing organization-wide failures.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

We want to help people focus on how it’s going to work best for your organization, for your teams, to make good decisions that drive value for your customers and your companies. It’s really extending some of the Agile mindset, but also internalizing this continuous improvement mindset and applying it to how we work.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Hopefully you’ve already discovered the features that are going to give you a higher return on investment, so now is the time to break them down and understand them in more detail?—?to During Discovery you have focused on gaining understanding; understanding of the problem, the market, your users etc.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2020

So far, we've discussed the lever of canceling a project at any time with the serial lifecycles in Part 1. That's because these lifecycles normally complete one feature set at a time. The feature sets take whatever time they take. What if the team runs out of time or money (schedule)? Opportunities for More Agility.

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Productside

AUGUST 26, 2022

Waterfall vs. Agile — The race to deep space! . It’s uncertain that a private company like SpaceX could rival NASA’s experience and funding. But SpaceX has shown impressive progress leveraging an Agile production methodology that could compete with and even replace NASA’s waterfall processes. .

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Jeff sat down with our hosts for a rare in-person conversation during Scotland’s Turing Festival to chat about effecting change, focusing on outcomes, using lean and agile principles in his own life, and the value of training. It’s the optimisation of that system to create better customer outcomes. Quote of the Episode.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 3, 2017

Ellen is an Agile Product Coach and President of EBG Consulting focused on achieving product agility through the convergence of product management, agile/lean principles, and organizational learning. The seven dimensions are User, Action, Interface, Data, Control, Environment and Quality Attribute. Technology.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Daniel Vacanti and Prateek Singh graciously invited* me to be on an episode of Drunk Agile: Episode 37 Johanna Rothman Part Deux More Bigger Aging. Ordering the work by value, even though agile approaches hope the value changes. (Re)defining Prateek said at one point (I'm paraphrasing), “Customers want the work now.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

This will earn you the respect and trust of your followers and at the same time, it will make you a happier person. To boost your referent power, I recommend focussing on one virtue at a time and practicing it repeatedly—without expecting too much too quickly. Nothing beats meeting real users. How cool is that?

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