Monthly Archives: April 2005

“I Need a Technical Project Manager”

Posted on April 15, 2005 by Johanna

  Two different colleagues wrote me with similar conundrums. Their managers wants a “technical” project manager. One colleague was a hardware person, the other was a tester. They have both been managing software projects for several years. No one has … Continue reading →

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Seeing What’s Going On

Posted on April 12, 2005 by Johanna

  Clarke Ching’s post, Functional Blindess, reminded me to post the ways I know about how to see the current state in a project or in an organization. For projects: Ask to see a demo. Can you see anything at … Continue reading →

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Recording of my Nine Steps to Becoming More Agile

Posted on April 8, 2005 by Johanna

  Roy Osherove taped my talk, “Nine Steps to Becoming More Agile” at the Israel Agile group meeting a couple of weeks ago. I was pleasantly surprised by how good the quality of the recording is. The recording isn’t perfect, … Continue reading →

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Personal Lessons Learned from an Around-the-World Trip

Posted on April 7, 2005 by Johanna

I returned from my wonderful around-the-world trip last Friday afternoon. I didn’t try to work until Monday, but I realized today that I was still Asleep at the Wheel. I attempted to use a new-to-me configuration management system (Subversion). In … Continue reading →

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Six Steps to Effective Feedback

Posted on April 6, 2005 by Johanna

  I was reading You Are Possibly Very Annoying and realized I hadn’t posted Esther‘s and my six steps to effective feedback. (This is in the management book, starting publisher editing.) Here they are: Make sure you’re giving feedback about … Continue reading →

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