Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Several of my clients want to use some sort of maturity assessment for their agile transformations. For agile transformation, an assessment can help people see how they change—how they innovate the products and the culture. These are about the product development behaviors I see in the organization. Just to be clear :-).).

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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. These people tell me their career ladder doesn't work to enhance agility. Organizations reward people as individuals—but agility demands collaboration. Became a consultant.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Agile just turned twenty-one, but don’t put away that fake ID yet. This software development methodology is still in its infancy when it comes to our understanding of which teams should be embracing it and which should be shunning it. All of this adapted to small development teams or small companies is no problem.

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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. ” Shared service-thinking denies the reality of effective product development: A cross-functional team learns together as they develop the product. .”

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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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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2021

So when does it make sense to customize your agile approach to gain a strategic advantage? They want an agile approach, so they started with Scrum. As part of the product development, they spin off security and performance teams. Then, they Built their agile approach based on their needs. SmallCo wants to grow.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Due to the growing tendency of backing technology businesses, a software startup could raise millions of dollars of funding in their earliest stages of development. A typical product development process would follow the Waterfall principles, taking quarters, and even a year to release a product to the market.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

They guide the stakeholders , development teams, and in the case of large products, other product people, to meet the agreed product goals , create the desired outcomes, and achieve product success, as Figure 1 shows. A head of product is responsible for developing the individuals and growing the product management team. See Peter G.

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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. Barry Boehm developed the spiral model. We develop test plans early. Opportunities for Agility. The Spiral Model.

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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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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

I was tasked with gathering the requirements from sales, coming up with a solution, designing it, and then shipping the specification document to development to be built. Scrum came on the scene just before the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001. They’re entire identity seemingly hinged on having a team of developers.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On the ANE panel last night, an agile coach asked, “What's my path forward as an agile coach? Focus on business results, not agility per se. Nobody wants to “be agile.” ” People want the results agility offers them. Agility can help achieve these results. What do I do next?”

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2020

TL; DR: The Cargo Cult Agile Checklist for Download You want to know the state of agility in your organization? If the average number of checkboxes marked is higher than nine, then you are probably practicing cargo cult agile in one form or another. like all other agile frameworks?—?isn’t In my experience, Scrum?—?like

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Tips for managing global innovation projects Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode of Product Mastery Now, I speak with Jack Hsieh about successful product development strategies. Process Management Organizations need different development processes based on their specific needs.

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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 That's why agile approaches emphasize “finish something and get feedback on it.”

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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. Not realizing a standard agile approach is an oxymoron. Teams need to experiment and change their agile approach. Address the cultural changes necessary for agility.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Opportunities for More Agility. Because we release every time we finish a feature set, we have these opportunities for agility: Re-rank the remaining feature sets. You can't just have developers, then testers, etc. Next, I'll discuss iterative and incremental lifecycles without being “agile.”

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2020

I took some time out from my usual deep dives into product development topics to contemplate what I’d personally like to see happen in 2021 and beyond for us folks in product, development and venturing. and then development all too often fails to achieve what the business had in mind. Abraham Lincoln.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Are you trying to make an agile framework or approach work? Maybe you've received a mandate to “go agile.” Or, maybe you're trying to fit an agile framework into your current processes—and you've got a mess. I've seen plenty of problems when people try to adopt “agile” wholesale.

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Productside

AUGUST 26, 2022

Waterfall vs. Agile — The race to deep space! . For NASA that is the Space Launch Systems (SLS), developed over the past 11 years and set to launch on August 29, 2022. For NASA that is the Space Launch Systems (SLS), developed over the past 11 years and set to launch on August 29, 2022. Is NASA Being Smart or Playing it Safe?

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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. He’s now a consultant, speaker and writer. This in turn feeds project plans and feature roadmaps, and the micro-planning of an agile product team. Steps, that develop the ideas and test them.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Troubleshooting Agile – Jeffery Fredrick & Douglas Squirrel’s episode of The Product Experience. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Related Links. Follow Janna on Twitter and LinkedIn. Get in Touch, Rate Us and More!

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Mind the Product

JUNE 30, 2020

About Lean UX v Agile. * Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. It’s a long way from his first book ( Lean UX ), and his personal retrospective is highly relevant for anyone trying to figure out what they want to do next.

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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. Interim Product Manager Some consultants only play interim product roles.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

Are you looking for work, either as a consultant or a candidate? And candidates and consultants invest time that has no perceived payoff for them. I agree—hiring managers do need to assess a candidate's or consultant's skills. (I So what can a candidate or consultant do to show their skills without working for free?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

He works as a coach, consultant, and keynote speaker helping companies bridge the gaps between business agility, digital transformation, product management, and human-centred design. Sherif has been in software development for over 15 years. by Kate Leto, Product Consultant. More conference speakers coming soon!

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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. Especially, Agile is Not a Silver Bullet.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

UX studio is one of the global innovation design consulting firms focusing on UX design, research, and strategic consulting. We researched the top design consulting firms’ competency level, experience, and portfolio to define the most reliable design thinking companies you can trust and partner with in 2021. UX studio .

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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. Drew Falkman.

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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.

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bpma ProductHub

JUNE 21, 2017

An Agile Product Open meetup recap. The Agile Product Open meetup is one such group that is dedicated to advancing the principles and practices of product management. It’s a collaborative forum for leveraging Agile to discover and deliver better products, sooner. The theme for the evening was “Agile Product Roadmaps”.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Developers can remove the pains associated with constantly incorporating new SDKs into an app and focus on delivering products that transform the customer experience. UserVoice enables product teams to work more effectively alongside customers, customer support, success, and sales teams to better inform the product development process.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

My career started at Hewitt Associates which was a human capital and management consulting firm that operated 500 offices in 120 countries. We provided consulting, insurance brokerage, information technology and business process outsourcing services. First, I spoke with team members and my development team to assess the problem.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This speaker spoke on The Key to Successful Voice of the Customer (VOC) in Agile Teams. This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. Agile teams need to know what they are developing, and VOC is a tool for understanding what customers need. Learn more about them at PDMA.org.

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