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.

Software Development
Johanna RothmanFebruary 15th, 2018
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Three Ways to Think About Value
I was on vacation last week, thinking about value. Depending on my role, I might think of value as: Delivery…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanJanuary 26th, 2018
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When Teams Don’t Finish Work in a Sprint: 3 Tips to Seeing and Finishing Work
Sprints, by definition, are a timebox. You’re supposed to say, “Pencils down!” at the end of the sprint, show your…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanJanuary 9th, 2018
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Creating an Environment of Teamwork
A colleague asked my opinion on the various teambuilding activities she was considering for a new-to-agile team, to help them…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanDecember 8th, 2017
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Measure Your Cost per Feature
As Mark Kilby and I work on the geographically distributed teams book, I realized this morning that we need to…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanDecember 4th, 2017
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Agile Approaches Require Management Cultural Change
Ron Jeffries, Matt Barcomb, and several other people wrote an interesting thread about prescriptive and non-prescriptive approaches to team-based agile.…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanSeptember 28th, 2017
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Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 7, Summary
Let me summarize what I’ve been talking about in these posts. The problem I’m seeing is that too many teams…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanSeptember 27th, 2017
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Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 6, Managers Want Commitments
You’ve started thinking in feature sets. Maybe you’ve experimented with rolling wave plans inside one quarter, so you can change…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanSeptember 14th, 2017
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Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 5, the Product Value Team
If you need to plan more often than once a quarter, how do you know how to replan? Instead of…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanSeptember 8th, 2017
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Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 4, Resilience, Prediction, & Feedback
One of my clients was trying—valiantly—to make their quarterly planning sessions work. They prepared, getting the big hotel room. They…
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