New England Software Symposium
September 28 - 30, 2018
Free Your Agile Team: Focus on Flow Efficiency and Collaboration
Saturday - Sep 29 11:00 AM EDT - CONCORD
Many agile teams collaborate with a Product Owner, or maybe a customer. But how many team members collaborate as a team? Too few. Why? Because the reward system reinforces resource efficiency, not flow efficiency.
Focusing on flow efficiency frees the team to collaborate and deliver—as a team. Flow efficiency helps the organization focus on throughput—the outcome—rather than busyness—the output.
Learn to see the signs of resource efficiency and flow efficiency. Learn what to measure and when to measure it. And, learn how too-common metrics, such as velocity and burndown might actually contribute to resource efficiency thinking instead of flow efficiency thinking and actions.
- Learn the difference between resource efficiency and flow efficiency. What the words mean.
- How people work (and don't work) in flow efficiency.
- How to answer the first important question: will the work take longer?
- What does accountability and performance management mean in flow efficiency? (How do you get raises?)
- How you might move from experts and resource efficiency to team-based learning and delivery. (And, not freak everyone out.)
Johanna Rothman
Speaker, Consultant, Author for managing product development
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.