Podcast from Agile 2007 Posted
Bob Payne interviewed me in this podcast at Agile 2007. We mostly talked about project management, some specifics from Manage It!, and also talked about hiring for an agile team.
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Added Latest Pragmatic Manager Email Newsletter
I’ve posted last month’s Pragmatic Manager email newsletter, Making Waterfall (a Serial Lifecycle) Work For You, Part 2. I’m working on #3, which should be out this week.
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Blog changes
In the past couple of weeks, I’ve migrated from Blogger to WordPress (with the excellent help of Kim Black). I expect you can still read the blog and that the feeds are still coming through. If you’d like to update to the new addresses, here they are: Managing Product Development is now at https://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/ The
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Stickyminds Column Posted: Schedule Games and the Portfolio
My most recent Stickyminds column is up: Are Your Pants on Fire, or Do You Suffer from Split Focus?. There’s also a podcast on that page. You can leave comments there or here.
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How to Give the Project Team Just Enough "Pressure"
In For a more productive team, put the pressure on (within reason), Chris Hoover recommends a little pressure to help the procrastinators un-procrastinate, and help people get their work done on time. I only sort-of agree. Everyone has their own amount of pressure, and what’s good for you is not good for me. But working
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Release-able vs. Demo-able
Last week, when I was at the Much Ado about Agile 2 conference in Vancouver, I had a conversation with Dan Rawsthorne. He said he wants to make sure his teams have demo-able software, not necessarily release-able. Interesting. So what would have to be true for an agile team to have “just” demo-able software, not
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Feedback is NOT Coaching
At SD earlier this week, I led a tutorial about coaching. Imagine my surprise when I asked people why they were there, and some of them said, “I have a person who’s not doing so well. I need to coach them.” Uh, no. You need to give that person feedback. Feedback is information about the
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Do the Ends Justify the Means?
In Integrity is the Most Important Requirement in a Manager, I talked about integrity as a requirement for a manager. With the current Patriots scandal, I’m wondering what Belichick was thinking. I don’t claim to know everything about football. I enjoy watching the games. I enjoy seeing a team come together, which is what the
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"But It's Just a Small Change"
I had the pleasure of speaking with two different colleagues today, both with the same dilemma. They are near the end of their projects. They don’t quite have enough time for one round of final testing–but if they’re lucky and the stars align, and they don’t find too many problems, they can still (maybe)
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Another Review of Manage It!
Greg Wilson posted a lovely review, Managing, Reviewing, and RESTing. I particularly like this part: Her new book is her best yet: personal without being chatty, and informative without being dry, it covers everything a technical manager needs to know about running a development project. Thanks Greg, and I’ll make sure my editor sees