My podcast this week is from the Continual Planning book. Enjoy! (If you only see a black box in the Podcast section, please click through to the post itself. Or subscribe to the podcast or my YouTube channel. Some RSS readers do not render the frame properly.) The Podcast: The Transcript: This is 60 Seconds of
I have been having a devil of a time trying to write the first chapter of the Continual Planning book. I know how the problems intersect and I know how to describe them. Because all the problems intersect. I don’t know how to separate the problems for the reader to understand what I mean and
I’m back with a podcast this week! Yes, it’s been a while. (Chemo interrupts everything.) This is from the Continual Planning book. Enjoy! (If you only see a black box in the Podcast section, please click through to the post itself. Some RSS readers do not render the frame properly.) The Podcast: The Transcript: This
In a recent conversation, a colleague said, “That experiment did not succeed.” That is, the outcome was not what we wanted. But that’s still a successful experiment. Because the experiment offered learning. The results told us where our thinking was not correct. This particular experiment did not tell us what was wrong, only that our
This is Johanna Rothman’s October 2026 Pragmatic Manager newsletter. The Unsubscribe link is at the bottom. Are you tired of large decks of project status data? I hate them. Too often, the data is not relevant, or worse, the data actually lies. That leads people to watermelon status, where the project is green until very
If you have to make a decision, how fast can you make it? There is certainly a range of decision times. Some decisions require almost immediate decisions. Others can take a while. But no decision can take what seems like forever. In effect, waiting to make a decision is no decision. No decision is still
My podcast this week is from the Continual Planning book. (I use a frame to embed the podcast into this post. Some RSS readers and some email clients do not show that. If you see nothing after “The Podcast,” please click through to this post. Or, look for “Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman” in
My podcast this week is from the Continual Planning book. Enjoy! I did make a mistake this week. Since I was trying to stay within my minute timebox, I missed adding the most important line. Here it is: Aging is the leading indicator and root cause of all that overplanning. (Sigh.) (I use a frame
My podcast this week is from the Continual Planning book. Enjoy! (I use a frame to embed the podcast into this post. Some RSS readers and some email clients do not show that. If you see nothing after “The Podcast,” please click through to this post. Or, look for “Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman”
This week’s podcast is from the Continual Planning book. Enjoy! I use a frame to embed the podcast into this post. Some RSS readers and some email clients do not show that. If you see nothing after “The Podcast,” please click through to this post. Or, look for “Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman” in