I’m excited to be part of TheAgileNetwork.com. That’s where people with significant expertise in agility gather to share their expertise. While frameworks and methods are useful for some people, my clients find them of limited value. My clients—and I bet many of you, my readers—need practical and pragmatic ideas rather than a specific agile framework […]
My podcast this week is from the Effective Public Speaking book. Enjoy! The Podcast: The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is Johanna’s 60 Seconds of Writing WIP for October 4, 2024, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress. This is from the Effective Public Speaking book. Create
The nice folks at bookdna.com asked me to create my curated list of “scaling” agile books. That’s when I realized there is one core thought behind what we need to scale agility: collaboration between people and teams. That core thought is why I wrote Agile and Lean Program Management. And why I recommended these books:
I keep seeing too much micromanagement in organizations. That’s where managers decide for the people they lead and serve, not with the people they lead and serve. Micromanagement creates several problems: People stop learning how to solve problems because the manager steps in to tell them what to do. That leads to much lower throughput,
My podcast this week is from the Effective Public Speaking book. Enjoy! The Podcast: The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is Johanna’s 60 Seconds of Writing WIP for September 27, 2024, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress. This is from the Effective Public Speaking book. Practice
Several times in the past few months I’ve looked for a specific book because of an article I read or a podcast I heard. (That’s a big thumbs up for marketing.) But the book was only available in hardcover or paperback. Why? Some indie authors say that potential readers can “search on my blog for
While I published the podcast and video last week, I did not tell you folks, my blog readers. Fixing that now! Enjoy! The Podcast: The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is Johanna’s 60 Seconds of Writing WIP for September 20, 2024, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in
My podcast this week is from the Effective Public Speaking Book. (Since I’m teaching all day tomorrow and do not want to interrupt myself, you get the podcast and video early.) Enjoy! (Oh, if you watch the video and you’re wondering about my eyes, think allergies. Yes, I appear to be having quite the fall.
I discussed how to calculate the Costs of Delay in the previous three posts, and then offered an example in Part 3. Notice that the example uses cycle time or how the team feels about the remaining time to think about the value in order to rank the work. (The links to all the posts
While I published my podcast on audio and video for September 6, I did not tell you nice people that I did. Fixing that now. The Podcast: The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is Johanna’s 60 Seconds of Writing WIP for September 6, 2024, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of