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

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. Can you create an agile culture for your team even if you can't change how the organization works?

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Mind the Product

MAY 13, 2020

Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel know this well, and their new book Agile Conversations , focuses on the five critical conversations you’ll have and how to perfect them. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Quote of the Episode.

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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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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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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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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency, where we focus on watching the work, not the people. If you and your team have been practicing real agility, you might say these ideas barely show any agility at all.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We often hear that agile is a mindset. That we need to change our thinking to use agility. We need behaviors if we want an agile culture. Which behaviors do we need for an agile culture? I realize discussing financial information can challenge almost every person in every organization.). Is that correct?

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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. Agile teams need to know what they are developing, and VOC is a tool for understanding what customers need. We’ll discuss how to get more benefits from VOC in Agile teams. 7:34] Tell us about the three pillars of using VOC with Agile.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2017

Despite the successes Agile has brought us, it’s time to take the things we have learned from Agile and move on. Like the technology we use to build the products we love ages and gets left behind, Agile has died while we were perfecting our standup. We are in a post-Agile world and the terrain has changed.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 28, 2019

I suspect the first question is how much change do you need in your product, not how good your information is, or how much planning you need. See the various kinds of products in Tactical Ideas for Agile Budgeting, Part 1 or in Manage Your Project Portfolio.). How Long Does Your Information Have Value? All planning costs money.

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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. Today we are talking about using a modified version of Scrum for hardware projects.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

More of my clients say they want business agility. Yet, we don't share a common definition of business agility. Those actions show that managers change their actions in the face of new information or feedback. Those actions show that managers change their actions in the face of new information or feedback.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2021

We talked with agile consultant Liz Keogh about how to get this right, who estimates are for, her invaluable scale for estimating complexity, and how to pronounce the word Cynefin. Buy Chris Matts’ ‘Real Options at Agile 2009’ book here. * ‘What is Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)?’

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 27, 2018

Has the spirit of being agile been lost behind a mountain of rules? Agile vs. Being Agile Agile became popular shortly after ‘The Agile Software Development Manifesto ’ was published in 2001. Companies who focused on being agile saw great success, and others wanted to follow suit.

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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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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 9, 2021

I said that when we focus on individual achievements and deliverables, we ignore the agile system of work. Worse, when we reward individual achievements we prevent an agile culture. That's because agile teams learn together as they create the product. See Multiple Short Feedback Loops Support Innovation for more information.).

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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. That we use prototypes to inform the detailed planning, design, etc. We use the feedback to inform more of the project's prototyping.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Agile Movers & Shakers: Diana Larsen’s Questionnaire Please describe what you do in 280 characters : “On my best days, I contribute to the growing and strengthening the practices of agile coaches and teams through as many channels as possible.” What brought you to ‘agile?’ “In Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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280 Group

AUGUST 26, 2022

Waterfall vs. Agile — The race to deep space! . But SpaceX has shown impressive progress leveraging an Agile production methodology that could compete with and even replace NASA’s waterfall processes. . Agile Product Development Leads to Advanced Innovation . NASA is not delivering on that front. .

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

TL;DR: Creating an Agile Community of Practice Creating an agile community of practice helps winning hearts and minds within the organization as it provides authenticity to the agile transition?—?signaling Join the 25th Hands-on Agile meetup on August 20, 2020, to explore the virtual Ecocycle Planning.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

Let me address a little about business agility and innovation. Business agility allows us to create a culture where we plan to change. Too many people think business agility is about the ability to do more of the same, faster. Instead of optimizing for a team's agility, we can encourage management agility with flow efficiency.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Teams can get some feedback from one feature set to inform the next set—but that's not a primary lever. 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. What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context?

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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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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. ” I’ve spent the last half-year in the beginning of my journey understanding how agile product management at scale can work. For agile at scale, I don’t believe this is true.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 26, 2021

Adopting Agile sounds as simple as taking the SCRUM master certification tests and pushing them down the framework to a team of developers. Usually, we find that the challenge of becoming agile is way larger than most companies like to admit. It was more a requirement to use the fancy word agile , than a real transformation program.

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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? If you read these books, you could understand project-based agility. However, many people wanted “the recipe” for agility.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 3, 2019

At the Influential Agile Leader workshop earlier this year, I led a session about scaling and how you might think about it. I asked if any of the teams succeeded at using an agile approach at the team level. They don't have the information they needed when they need it. I explained how in Agile and Lean Program Management.).

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This is necessary, for example, to establish an effective product management function and to secure the necessary level of empowerment for the product people as well as to resolve cross-departmental issues—think of sales reps who routinely promise features to customers without first consulting the appropriate product managers. See Peter G.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 3, 2018

I delivered a webinar called Agile Metrics for Team and Product Progress last week, thanks to the nice folks at Innovation Roots. One person gave me a new saying about metrics (at the end, during the Q&A): Are you data-driven or data-informed? If you want the ability to replan you use data to inform your next steps.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2019

Developer to Consultant to Product Manager If you asked me 5 years ago, I didn’t even know what Product Management was. After learning a whole lot about how to do software requirements management, project management, enterprise architecture, architecting software solutions, information security policies. Product Management Journey?—?Developer

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As a consultant, I create many kinds of information products: both writing and speaking. Worse, it's actually easier to experiment with software than it is with information products. The image to the left, from Successful Independent Consulting , shows the interaction between my writing and speaking.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Some of my clients have struggled with their project governance as they move to agile approaches. Then, assumptions change, needs change, the market changes, and the information has little to no value. The time people spent generating that information was a waste. This kind of measurement is antithetical to agile principles.

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Centercode

APRIL 2, 2019

Then I moved on to telecom, military simulation software, cloud SaaS, consulting and finally healthcare. A test strategy creator should strive to be succinct and ensure the information is valuable. Can they act on this information?” The great thing that Agile brings is the usefulness of many new tools, such as Confluence.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 12, 2021

You want business agility. The people and teams continue to experiment with agile behaviors. Every team's agile journey is unique. So is each manager's agile journey. They might have valuable information. If some people aren't sure, they might not be as far along in their agile journey. Educate them.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Think of Google Search, which addresses the challenge of finding information online, and Flickr, which allows people to share photos. Last but not least, the product team should include a coach who might be an experienced Scrum Master , agile coach, or product coach. 4] As you may have noticed I didn’t list the product backlog.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Let's start with the reason we plan anything in an agile approach. Reasons for Agile Planning If we have a product goal or vision, we can say, “Here's what we want to accomplish for this next bit of time and work.” ” All agile approaches limit WIP (Work in Progress). I'll return to that later.)

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