Johanna Rothman
JANUARY 21, 2021
When I think about agile approaches to work, I think about how fast we can change and the cost of those changes. That's why an agile approach with deliverables every day or week doesn't fit with some kinds of projects, such as events. Consider the Continuum of Feedback Loops and Decisions. Let's start with the team.
Johanna Rothman
JANUARY 6, 2020
In Costs of an Agile Approach for Hardware Products , I suggested that an iteration-based approach for hardware was too expensive. Agile software teams are cross-functional and interdependent. Many agile software teams have somewhere between four and seven people. Feedback Loops Drive Collaboration. And, with whom?
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Johanna Rothman
AUGUST 25, 2022
” (The team feedback loop is the inside of the onion for how agile the organization can be. See Multiple Short Feedback Loops Support Innovation.). The post Shorten Team Feedback Loops with These Three Questions to Increase Throughput appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.
Johanna Rothman
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Strategy and Product Feedback Loops Many of my middle-management and senior leadership clients want certainty about future work. Does that sound like an agile team to you? However, managers don't create features as agile teams do. Agile teams don't assume they make a final product the first time out.
Johanna Rothman
MAY 3, 2019
I started this series discussing the issue of the various product-based roles in an agile organization. And, batching the product planning in one-quarter chunks doesn't encourage us to reduce the feedback loop duration. Back when we started using agile approaches, many teams worked directly with their customers.
Johanna Rothman
MARCH 5, 2020
This part is about shortening feedback loops. They had one piece of feedback: the checkin broke “unrelated” code. It was time to see their feedback loops. See Your Feedback Loops. Every project (or effort) has at least one feedback loop. How Long Are Your Feedback Loops?
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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