Johanna Rothman

Johanna consults, speaks, and writes about managing product development. She helps managers and leaders do reasonable things that work. You can read more of her writings at jrothman.com.

Agile
Johanna RothmanSeptember 25th, 2014
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Cost, Value & Investment: How Much Will This Project Cost? Part 2
This post is continued from Cost, Value & Investment: How Much Will This Project Cost, Part 1 We’ve established that…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanSeptember 12th, 2014
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Cost, Value & Investment: How Much Will This Project Cost? Part 1
I’ve said before that you cannot use capacity planning for the project portfolio. I also said that managers often want…
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Career
Johanna RothmanSeptember 12th, 2014
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Job Search Trap: I Can Network Only By Computer
I gave a talk at a networking group recently about Manage Your Job Search. When the members checked in at…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanSeptember 1st, 2014
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Managers Manage Ambiguity
I was thinking about the Glen Alleman’s post, All Things Project Are Probabilistic. In it, he says, Management is Prediction…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanAugust 28th, 2014
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Capacity Planning and the Project Portfolio
I was problem-solving with a potential client the other day. They want to manage their project portfolio. They use Jira,…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanAugust 20th, 2014
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People Are Not Resources
My manager reviewed the org chart along with the budget. “I need to cut the budget. Which resources can we…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanAugust 19th, 2014
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Hiring Trap: I’ll Wait for the Best Person
A senior product manager had a great interview the other day. “I know the industry. I worked on the first…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanJuly 24th, 2014
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How Pairing & Swarming Work & Why They Will Improve Your Products
If you’ve been paying attention to agile at all, you’ve heard these terms: pairing and swarming. But what do they…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanJuly 3rd, 2014
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Do You Encourage People to Bring You Problems?
One of the familiar tensions in management is how you encourage or discourage people from bringing you problems. One of…
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