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 RothmanJanuary 29th, 2013
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Managing the Stream of Features in an Agile Program
One of the challenges in a program is how you manage the checkins, especially if you have continuous integration. I…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanDecember 23rd, 2012
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Who Do You Promote Into Management?
I vividly remember my first promotion into management. I was looking for a promotion to be a senior engineer. I…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanDecember 9th, 2012
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Agile Program Management: How Will You Deliver?
One of my program management clients is organizing a program and is having trouble thinking about a delivery model that…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanDecember 5th, 2012
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Agile is Not for Everyone
Someone asked me again about self-assessments for their agile transition. That got me thinking about this problem of transitioning to…
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Software Development
Johanna RothmanDecember 1st, 2012
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Nurturing Leadership
I had an email conversation with a colleague about when you let people fail versus when you rescue them—how you…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanOctober 24th, 2012
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Transition to Agile, Large Technical Debt, Small Project
Many months ago, Rebecca asked an interesting question about technical debt in projects. She asked, How to start when there’s…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanJuly 22nd, 2012
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Hours, Velocity, Silo’d Teams, & Gantts
I’ve been having some email conversations with some project and program managers turned Scrum Masters. In general here’s how things…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanJune 14th, 2012
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Becoming a Leading Manager
My most recent post, We Cannot Choose Between Management And Leadership, has struck a chord. That’s the good news. The…
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Agile
Johanna RothmanJune 5th, 2012
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Why an Agile Project Manager is Not a Scrum Master
A reader asked why the lifecycle in Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 1 is not Scrum. It’s not…
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