BAMBX - Johanna Rothmann: Visualize Your Agile Approach, Practical Ways (ONLINE)

Visualize Your Agile Approach: Practical Ways to Increase Your Agility

Your team is supposed to use an agile approach, such as Scrum. But you have a years-long backlog, your standups are individual status reports, and you’re still multitasking. You and your team members wish you had the chance to do great work, but this feels a lot like an “agile” death march.
There’s a reason you feel that way. You’re using fake agility—a waterfall lifecycle masquerading as an agile approach. Worse, fake agility is the norm in our industry. No one has to work that way.

Instead, you can assess your culture, project, and product risks to select a different approach. That will allow you to choose how to collaborate so you can iterate over features and when to deliver value. When you do, you are more likely to discover actual agility and an easier way to work.

About the Speaker:

Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank advice for your challenging problems. She consults with leaders and teams so they can learn to see alternate options that might work. Those practical alternatives can help them be more effective with others at work. With those choices, they can choose what—and how—to adapt their product development. With her trademark practicality and humor, Johanna is the author of 20 books, hundreds of articles, and blog posts about many aspects of product development. Her most recent book is Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. Find her monthly newsletter and blogs at jrothman.com and createadaptablelife.com.

About our hosts:

Petya Ilieva
Petya is an experienced Agile Coach and an Org Developer. She has more than 11 years experience as a project manager, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, team coach and trainer in a broad spectrum of sectors: from the public sector (federal ministries & state parliaments) to both non-profit organization, the private sector & startups.

Thoralf J Klatt
Thoralf serves as a Product Coach. He started his career developing medical devices like CT scanners and became a Certified Scrum Master in 2007. Based on many years of experience in diverse domains, Thoralf qualified as SPC in 2016, as Scrum@Scale and Scrum Inc. Trainer with Jeff Sutherland in 2019, and as Mobius Navigator Coach with Gabrielle Benefield in 2020. Reach out for speakerships