Rothman Consulting Group, Inc. Pragmatic Manager, Vol. 5 #3, Timeboxes Help Multisite Teams April 29, 2008 Feature Article: Timeboxes Help Multisite Teams I love timeboxing my work. Timeboxing–choosing a period of time in which to finish a specific task–helps me stay focused on just one thing at a time. Imagine you’ve estimated you have […]
Contents: This month’s Feature Article: Discovering and Maintaining Your Project’s Heartbeat, Part 2 Announcements =-=-=-=-=- Feature Article: Discovering and Maintaining Your Project’s Heartbeat, Part 2 Last month, I discussed how you to generate and maintain a project’s heartbeat–a project’s rhythm. If you missed that issue, see https://www.jrothman.com/pragmaticmanager/heartbeatpart1.html. This month, you might want to consider some
Contents: This month’s Feature Article: Making Waterfall (a Serial Lifecycle) Work For You, Part 3 Announcements =-=-=-=-=- Feature Article: Making Waterfall (a Serial Lifecycle) Work For You, Part 3 In the previous two issues, I suggested some approaches for making a waterfall work for you. If you missed either of those issues, see Waterfall Part
Contents: This month’s Feature Article: Making Waterfall (a Serial Lifecycle) Work For You, Part 2 Announcements =-=-=-=-=- Feature Article: Making Waterfall (a Serial Lifecycle) Work For You, Part 2 Last month, I suggested some approaches for making a waterfall work for you. If you missed that issue, see <https://www.jrothman.com/pragmaticmanager/waterfallpart1.html>. Assuming you’re somewhere in the coding
Contents: This month’s Feature Article: Making Waterfall (a Serial Lifecycle) Work For You, Part 1 Announcements =-=-=-=-=- Feature Article: Making Waterfall (a Serial Lifecycle) Work For You, Part 1 If you read my blog, or have heard me speak, you know I’m not a fan of serial lifecycles, such as waterfall. In fact, unless you
Contents: This month’s Feature Article: Discovering and Maintaining Your Project’s Heartbeat, Part 1 Announcements =-=-=-=-=- Feature Article: Discovering and Maintaining Your Project’s Heartbeat Some projects zoom along, making progress regularly. Others feel as if they slog along, with barely any progress from week to week, or worse, month to month. Why? The zooming projects have
Contents: This month’s Feature Article: How Many Emergency Projects Do You Have? Announcements =-=-=-=-=- Feature Article: How Many Emergency Projects Do You Have? A project manager at a client took me aside recently. “Johanna, how many emergency projects should I have?” I was a bit surprised and asked what he meant. “Well, my boss thinks
Contents: This month’s Feature Article: Providing Effective Correcting and Reinforcing Feedback Announcements =-=-=-=-=- Feature Article: Providing Effective Correcting and Reinforcing Feedback So you can’t stand the way Bonzo checks in his broken code on Friday afternoons. Or, Cecile has such bad breath no one wants to work with her. Or, you’re not sure how to
Contents: This month’s Feature Article: Using One-on-Ones to Build Trust Announcements =-=-=-=-=- Feature Article: Using One-on-Ones to Build Trust A colleague of mine just arrived at a new company as a manager. He’s inherited a group where management was (and still is) a dirty word. Due to some of the previous managers’ actions, the technical
Contents: This month’s Feature Article: Becoming Comfortable with One-on-Ones Announcements =-=-=-=-=- Feature Article: Becoming Comfortable with One-on-Ones Last month’s feature article was about building trust with one-on-one meetings. In response, a reader mailed me this question: “How long should it take to become comfortable with one-on-ones?” Ok. Here’s the standard answer: It depends. It depends