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 RothmanNovember 29th, 2013
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How Many People Can You Manage as a Manager?
In my first management role, I “managed” one person. My managee didn’t need much management. He guided me into how…
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Software Development
Johanna RothmanOctober 31st, 2013
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Why Do We Estimate, Anyway?
I’ve been thinking about estimation these days. After the healthcare.gov site fiasco, and all the schedule games–many of which are…
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Software Development
Johanna RothmanSeptember 24th, 2013
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What is the Future of Work?
I just read Scott Berkun’s The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work. For me, it was a…
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Software Development
Johanna RothmanSeptember 19th, 2013
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Is Offshoring Less Expensive? Exposing Another Management Myth
I was in the midst of an assessment when the CIO came to me, and shut the door. “I have…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanSeptember 4th, 2013
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Trust, Agile Program Management, & Being Effective
If you read my most recent post, Comparing Teams Is Not Useful: Exposing Another Management Myth and the comments, you…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanApril 2nd, 2013
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Telecommuting, Hoteling, and Managing Product Development
There are two sides of this conversation about telecommuting: the employee side and the management side. I hope you stick…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanMarch 6th, 2013
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Organizing an Agile Program: Part 2, Networks for Managing Agile Programs
In Organizing an Agile Program: Part 1, Introduction, I discussed the difference between hierarchies and networks. I used Scrum of…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanFebruary 26th, 2013
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Organizing an Agile Program: Part 1, Introduction
If you want to organize an agile program, so you can manage the stream of features in your agile program,…
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Software Development
Johanna RothmanFebruary 21st, 2013
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Bumping Into Manager Rules
You might have met a manager on a bad manager day. Equally as frustrating is when you work for a…
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