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Three Principles of Organizational Agility

You have a choice of a multitude of frameworks, methods, and processes to help you achieve that elusive goal, organizational agility. Each of them claims to be the One Answer you will ever need. I have never seen a single framework, method or process work. Instead, I’ve seen three principles, applied all the way through the organization work. Those principles are collaboration, management excellence, and technical excellence.
This is actually lean product development applied to the organization.

Learn how the principles free you to use whatever framework, method, or process you desire, as long as you adhere to these principles:

  1. How to think about collaboration at all levels. Explain flow efficiency.
  2. How to create measures that work (lean accounting/flow measures, not cost accounting)
  3. How to experiment based on management collaboration for the project portfolio
    and the products. (If you’re an IT org, don’t worry. You have products, too.)
  4. What management excellence is.
  5. What technical excellence is.

Johanna Rothman

About Johanna Rothman

Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams learn to see simple and reasonable things that might work. Equipped with that knowledge, they can decide how to adapt their product development.

With her trademark practicality and humor, Johanna is the author of 18 books about many aspects of product development. She’s written these books:

  • Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility
  • Become a Successful Independent Consultant
  • Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer
  • Modern Management Made Easy series: Practical Ways to Manage Yourself; Practical Ways to Lead and Serve (Manage) Others; Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization
  • Write a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts
  • From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams (with Mark Kilby)
  • Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver
  • Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization
  • Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, 2nd edition
  • Project Portfolio Tips: Twelve Ideas for Focusing on the Work You Need to Start & Finish
  • Diving for Hidden Treasures: Finding the Value in Your Project Portfolio (with Jutta Eckstein)
  • Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Project Schedule or Cost
  • Manage Your Job Search
  • Hiring Geeks That Fit
  • The 2008 Jolt Productivity award-winning Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
  • Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (with Esther Derby)

In addition to articles and columns on various sites, Johanna writes the Managing Product Development blog on her website, jrothman.com, as well as a personal blog on createadaptablelife.com.

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