Focus on One Thing at a Time
Rothman Consulting Group, Inc. Vol 8, #9: Focus On One Thing at a Time Dec 30, 2011 ISSN: 2164-1196 In This Issue: […]
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project portfolio management
newsletter
Three Myths and Three Tips
Vol 8, #8: Three Myths and Three Tips I have been fortunate this year to be working and speaking internationally. And, almost everywhere I go, some manager or project manager takes me aside. “Johanna, can I ask you a crazy question?” I always answer that I’m sure the question is not crazy. The manager shakes
Articles
What’s an Agile PM to Do?
You interviewed with a team a month ago, and you were a little concerned. It didn’t seem as if they were keeping to their iterations. Their product owner wasn’t grooming the backlog often enough to keep the backlog filled for the release meeting. They seemed to have an awful lot of defects piling up at
Books, MPD
Kudos from GetAbstract for Manage Your Project Portfolio
The nice folks at getabstract like Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects. Some of the takeaways they highlight are: Project portfolio management helps you finish your software projects on schedule. You must understand your mission to make choices about prioritizing software projects. Managers must select which projects to undertake and
MPD, program management
Why Focus on Continuous Integration for Programs?
I hope that this 3-part series on how to move to continuous integration and how to evaluate if it’s worth moving to continuous integration on your program convinced you moving to continuous integration was worth it for programs. The reason continuous integration is an issue on programs, is because the lack of CI can delay
MPD, podcast
OOP Podcast Posted
Matthias Bohlen interviewed me as part of the preparation for the OOP conference. We spoke on a wide range of topics, not just my talk which is “Six Behaviors to Consider When Hiring for an Agile Team.” We spoke briefly about program management, which is why I’m leading my influence tutorial. Hear the entire podcast
conference, MPD
Slides Posted from "Northern Hemisphere Conference Tour"
I spent the most recent four weeks conferencing. I had a blast. Because I kept traveling, I nicknamed this series of conferences my “Northern Hemisphere Conference Tour.” I’ve posted the slides on slideshare.net. Oct 24-Oct 28, I was in Vancouver, BC at Much Ado About Agile 2011. I delivered a keynote entitled, “Where is Agile
Syllabus
Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects Workshop
Workshop Objective: You’ve started the transition to Scrum or some other agile lifecycle for your projects. You can see that it’s working well for the teams. And, now you realize you still have problems. You still have emergency projects. Or, you have emergency fixes. Or, you have specialists that have to be on more than one
MPD, program management
Which Program Team Are You Managing?
Some program managers whose organizations are transitioning to agile are not always clear on which program team they are managing. Sometimes, that’s because the organization doesn’t always realize they need more than one program team. If you are coordinating and collaborating across the entire organization, you are part of the core program team. If you
agile, MPD
Failed Fast at Agile 2011, Learned a Lot
I prepare for my speaking and workshop engagements. This year, I’ve been all over the world. I’ve had a great time, and my clients and audiences have had a great time, too. Well, except for this past week at my session, “The Budgeting Black Hole: Predicting the Unpredictable” at Agile 2011. There, I bombed. I