Want Business Agility? Start with your managers - Johanna Rothman

Too many organizations think they can reap the benefits of business agility with a framework or tools. However, frameworks and tools don't change the organizational culture. Instead of forcing managers into silos, what if we focused on creating collaborative management teams? We can change what we reward, support managers as they change their roles, and create business agility.

Learning outcomes

• Apply flow efficiency thinking to management and management teams.
• Discriminate between a culture of outputs with a culture that values learning and experimentation.
• Consider which policies and procedures prevent collaboration and fast experimentation.
• Discover management WIP.
• Measure the effect management decision time has on all the work in the organization.

Here's more about our awesome speaker for this event:

Johanna is a speaker, consultant and author of many books including managing product development and From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver (with Mark Kilby). Johanna joined us in April 2020 alongside Mark to share her insights on going from co-located to dispersed teams.

Johann is known as the “Pragmatic Manager" and provides frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams see problems and resolve risks and manage their product development. Johanna was one of the Patrons of the Agile20Reflect festival in February 2021. We love hearing Johanna's insights and are delighted to welcome her to the Access Agile freestival!