Blog Update: Categories
I have finally gone back through all of my older blog entries and attached tags to them. This should help if you think you read something here, and can’t remember exactly what it was called.
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Why Does a Meeting Need Buckets?
I’ve been working with managers of varying stripes, and a middle manager was proudly explaining how he deals with getting people’s attention at meetings. “I get a big bucket and put it on a chair next to the door. Everyone dumps their cell phones or Blackberries or pagers in the bucket. It’s kind of like
management, MPD
Take a Shower, Please
I was talking with a new manager recently, and she was explaining what she had to tell a new employee (a co-op, but an employee). “I told him he had to be here by 9am every day he works. He can eat lunch from 12 to 1, and then he should be back at his
MPD, project management
Plan a Better Project
Dave Christiansen wrote a lovely article, Plan a Better Project. He mentions Manage It!. Thanks, Dave.
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Aha Moments
I’m still catching up on posting links where either I or other people had aha moments: TMI’s One-on-Ones discusses a bunch of things about one-on-ones, something Esther and I have been talking about forever (as well as in Behind Closed Doors.) David Carlton explains how he adapted one-on-ones. (For the record, I love it when
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How Many Projects Are You Managing?
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
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Video Interview Posted at InfoQ
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
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Manage It! Won a Productivity Award
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
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Interview Posted
David Daly interviewed me, PM Interviews: Johanna Rothman by email. I answered in American spelling and he translated into UK/English spelling 🙂
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Portfolio Management Article Posted at PM Boulevard
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.