I gave a talk at a local ICCA chapter last night, and met a project manager who told me he was managing 7 projects. I must have lost my poker face, because he chuckled and said, “Well, you do what you can with that many projects.” You do. And I don’t buy that you’re actually
Now that I’ve piqued your curiosity about using writing and speaking to recruit in part 1, let’s discuss the details of who speaks and writes, where to speak and write, and when. Who should speak and write? The best people to speak and write are your hiring managers. I realize that this statement puts you
You’ve got a ton of projects. You can’t do them all at once because you don’t have the people to do them. You know better than to ask people to multitask on more than one project—no one will get anything done. One tactic is to organize the projects into a portfolio and rank them by
Deb Hartmann interviewed me (video and audio!) at Agile 2007. We mostly talked about schedule games from Manage It. (We briefly discussed Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management and Hiring the Best Knowedge Workers, Techies & Nerds.) For those of you who’ve met me and are wondering, “Where are Johanna’s glasses?” They’re in my
I’m pleased and excited to announce that Manage It! won a Jolt Productivity award. They announced the awards with all the productivity awards on one slide, and we were supposed to stand up when our names were announced. They then do a drum roll and announce the Jolt winner for that category. I saw Manage
David Daly interviewed me, PM Interviews: Johanna Rothman by email. I answered in American spelling and he translated into UK/English spelling 🙂
PM Boulevard just published How Often Should You Review the Project Portfolio?. You have to be a member to see whole article (membership is free). You can’t leave comments there, so please leave them here.
Joan Lloyd has a great post that I saw at Don’t turn down the new job before asking these questions by Joan Lloyd bizjournals.com. Her questions are: * What specific results are you expecting in the first three months? Six? One year? How will you measure those results? * To whom can I go for
About a month ago, I spoke with a project manager who’d inherited a project in chaos. No one was making progress. He was stumped–he’d never worked on a project where the developers couldn’t do anything, the testers couldn’t do anything, and time was just slipping away. I suggested he try baby steps. What’s the first
Dave posted his review of Manage it! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management. A quote: Here’s what I like best about the book: it’s not theological. By this I mean Rothman doesn’t advocate one “true” way of running projects. She is very careful to be continually cognizant of context when she talks about different