I’m working on finishing a talk based on a recent Pragmatic Manager newsletter: Three Tips to Focus to Deliver Better Products Faster. I wrote that newsletter because I’d given several recent talks where the audience told me their “agile” teams could not collaborate. Those “teams” were component teams and they were not near each other. […]
My podcast this week is from the speaking book. Not part of the podcast, but writing information that might help you see how I write. I think I finally discovered how to write the introduction and first chapter. Too many books have boring introductions and first chapters. So I cycle through mine to find the gems
When I wrote Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management, I included this chart, the Iterations Content Chart as part of a possible dashboard. I created that chart to clarify the challenges a specific team faced. They had problems with multitasking and the inevitable changes. The first way to use an iteration contents
My podcast this week is from the speaking book. Enjoy! I record these in video, too. (Especially since this is a speaking book! The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is 60 Seconds of Johanna’s Writing WIP for May 17, 2024, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress.
If you use Scrum or any other iteration-based approach to your work, the team plans in batches for that next iteration. The iteration is a timebox. The batch is the amount of work the team thinks they can do in that timebox. If the batch is sufficiently small and your cycle time is sufficiently short,
My 60 Seconds of Writing WIP this week is from the speaking book. Enjoy! The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is 60 Seconds of Johanna’s Writing WIP for May 10, 2024, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress. This excerpt is from the speaking book. There is
My writing WIP this week is from the speaking book. (As a side note: I’m using these 60 Seconds posts as a forcing function to write and finish the book. Why? Because like most writers, I have a number of writing projects in progress. I’m using this weekly commitment to myself to write, record, and
Are you looking for work, either as a consultant or a candidate? As part of their filtering process, potential clients/hiring managers want to see how you work. That’s fine. But too often, the work they want will take you hours or days. While managers think they will get useful results, too often, they don’t. And
My 60 seconds of writing this week is from the writing book. Enjoy! The podcast: The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is 60 Seconds of Johanna’s Writing WIP for April 26, 2024, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress. This excerpt is from the speaking book. How
Are you trying to use story points for estimation? If so, you might have encountered these problems: Story points reflect the ideal thinking of the team, not the actual experience of the team. Your managers don’t want story points—they want durations and dates. In the absence of sufficient information, everyone makes up fiction (human stories)