Pragmatic Manager Email Posted
In July, I sent out the Pragmatic Manager email newsletter: 90% Done is Not Almost Done. I have finally posted it. Enjoy!
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Bob Payne's Podcast Posted
Bob Payne interviewed me at Agile 2008. We spoke about my initial plans for Agile 2009, and my (in-writing) project portfolio book. The link is here: Agile 2009 – Johanna Rothman – Agile Portfolio Management and Agile 2009. I had a blast with Bob. If you’re wondering why it sounds like I’m chewing my cud
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A Little More About Program Management
Glen Alleman has a post about program management, Managing Multiple Projects is Called Program Management which got me thinking. (I’ve written about program management in the past also: Program Management: Multiple Projects With Multiple Deliverables.) But in the portfolio management book, I defined a few ways to think about your projects as programs: You, and
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Feedback is Context-Dependent
When I teach coaching or feedback skills, I teach them in the context of work. At work, as long as the feedback is about the work, or the work relationships, or it’s a question of safety, feedback is appropriate. Coaching, as long as it’s about work behavior is appropriate. But a funny thing happened to
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Breaking Free of Legacy Projects
If you’ve never been a victim of Medieval software project management, wow, I’m impressed. You don’t have to read the rest of this post. But if you’ve ever tried to break free of a legacy product/project, and haven’t been able to, you are not alone. The problem is we can’t create a knowledge management system
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Competition and Knowledge-Sharing
In Knowledge Management Needs to be Agile, Too, I said If you put people in competition with each other *in any way*, they will have dis-incentives to share their knowledge. John, in his comment on that post, said it seemed intuitive, but was having trouble articulating why. I’m here to help 🙂 Some of my
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"Seeing Your Work" Podcast Posted
I’ve posted my “Seeing Your Work” podcast. It’s available on libsyn and through iTunes. If you’d like me to interview you or you interview me, lemme know.
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An Attempt to Define Value
Jim, in his comment on Intuition is Not Enough for Knowing About the Project Portfolio, said: I am having trouble with the definition of the word “value” in this context. Do you mean showing progress, as in earned value, or value to the customer, such as in ROI or payback period? Value has become a
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Need Help with BackUpWordPress
I’ve been using BackUpWordPress to backup my blogs. I successfully upgraded Hiring Technical People to a newer version of WP and of BackUpWordPress. I upgraded this blog, Managing Product Development, to the newer version of WP, but now my newer version of BackUpWordPress is not working. I’m pretty sure it’s all about file permissions. If
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Is Your Product Development Half-Actions?
Via Jack Vinson, I found this gem: Stop doing half-actions. All of you who are separating your developers from your testers? You are doing half-actions. Separating the writers from the developers and testers? Half actions there, too. Even when you define architecture and implement across the architecture, instead of by feature, that’s a half-action. A