While I published the podcast and video last week, I did not tell you folks, my blog readers. Fixing that now! Enjoy! The Podcast: The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is Johanna’s 60 Seconds of Writing WIP for September 20, 2024, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in […]
This is the September 2024 Pragmatic Manager Newsletter, from Johanna Rothman. The Unsubscribe link is at the bottom of this email. After reading last month’s newsletter about sneaky problems that reappear, a savvy project manager, Eric, sent me this question. “My problems don’t reappear because I solved part of them. I can’t solve anything at all.
My podcast this week is from the Effective Public Speaking Book. (Since I’m teaching all day tomorrow and do not want to interrupt myself, you get the podcast and video early.) Enjoy! (Oh, if you watch the video and you’re wondering about my eyes, think allergies. Yes, I appear to be having quite the fall.
I discussed how to calculate the Costs of Delay in the previous three posts, and then offered an example in Part 3. Notice that the example uses cycle time or how the team feels about the remaining time to think about the value in order to rank the work. (The links to all the posts
While I published my podcast on audio and video for September 6, I did not tell you nice people that I did. Fixing that now. The Podcast: The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is Johanna’s 60 Seconds of Writing WIP for September 6, 2024, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of
Ranking work, whether it’s for the backlog, a roadmap, or the portfolio, sometimes feels like throwing darts and hoping for the best. But especially if there’s too much work and a lot of WIP, we have a tool for clarifying that ranking—the Cost of Delay. It does require counting the number of people and easy
In Part 1, I explained the various Costs of Delays with this image: I explained how to calculate the salary costs in Part 1. Now, it’s time to calculate/assess Costs 2, 3, and 4 to decide on the most valuable work. (If you have Manage Your Project Portfolio, there’s an entire section about calculating and
My podcast this week is from the Effective Public Speaking book. Enjoy! The Podcast: The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is Johanna’s 60 Seconds of Writing WIP for August 30, 2024, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress. This is from the Effective Public Speaking book. Because
My podcast this week is from the Effective Public Speaking book. Enjoy! The Podcast: The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is Johanna’s 60 Seconds of Writing WIP for August 23, 2024, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress. This is from the Effective Public Speaking book. While
If you’re like my clients (or me!), you have too much work to do. (I’m beginning to think “too much work” is the norm.) But how do you decide what to do first, second, and third? And never? I use Cost of Delay. (I’ve written about how to see the various Costs of Delay, especially