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Management, especially good management, is hard to do. This blog is for people who want to think about how they manage people, projects, and risk.

Programs and Technical Debt
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by Johanna Rothman
May 15 2012 - 11:09am
Once you have a program (a collection of interrelated projects focused on one business goal) and you have technical debt, you have a much bigger problem. Not just because the technical debt is likely bigger. Not just because you have more people. But because you also geographically distributed teams, and those teams are almost always separated by function and time zone.
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Management Myth #3 and #4 Posted at Techwell
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by Johanna Rothman
May 9 2012 - 8:04am
I’ve been writing a series of management myths this year. I didn’t realize when myth #3 went live and #4 went live yesterday. Management Myth #3: We Must Treat Everyone the Same Way and Management Myth #4: I Don’t Need One-on-Ones are up. Please leave comments over at Techwell.
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Why Does Management Care About Velocity?
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by Johanna Rothman
May 8 2012 - 10:36am
I’ve been talking to people whose management cares about their velocity. “My management wants us to double our velocity.” Or, “My management wants us to do more in a sprint.” Or, “My management wants to know when we will be a hyper-performing team, so they want to know when we will get 12x velocity like Scrum promised.”“Double Your Velocity” is an agile schedule game. It’s easy to manage–you...
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Pragmatic Managers Posted
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by Johanna Rothman
May 4 2012 - 9:38am
I have posted my two most recent Pragmatic Manager email newsletters: Building Rapport Distributed? Yes. Alone? No.
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Great Recollections from the Geographically Distributed Teams Workshop
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by Johanna Rothman
Apr 25 2012 - 9:42am
Shane and the participants and I had a great time at the Geographically Distributed Agile Teams workshop last week. We ran a couple of simulations, and here are some of the emails the teams had:Do you have something for us to test yet?We have completed the cardHi again. I didn’t hear back from you yesterday on this. We’ve already lost a day of status. Please find some time today to send us your...
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Overcoming Perfection Rules
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by Johanna Rothman
Apr 24 2012 - 9:13am
I have a tough time with my perfection rules. I want to be perfect. I’m not, of course. I want to be. So using leanpub and publishing early and often pushes me way out of my comfort zone. Which is why you haven’t heard anything from me about my book under development up until now. Yesterday, I announced the beta of my newest book Manage Your Job Search: Reduce Your Overwhelm, Focus...
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Roll Your Own Posted on Gantthead.com
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by Johanna Rothman
Apr 11 2012 - 9:04am
My column, Roll Your Own, about how to organize for teamwork for a geographically distributed agile project team is up. Please leave comments there. Enjoy!
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Thoughts on Infrastructructure, Technical Debt, and Automated Test Framework
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by Johanna Rothman
Apr 6 2012 - 11:37am
I’ve had several conversations in email and with clients recently that have all been about this question: “What do we do about our infrastructure?” Either the project or the program has to create/update/upgraded their architecture or automated test infrastructure, pay down technical debt, or somehow do something that’s not part of a story.
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Podcast about Transparency Posted
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by Johanna Rothman
Apr 4 2012 - 10:53am
Tom Cagley interviewed me a few weeks ago on his Software Process and Measurement Cast. It’s posted now, as # 180.When Tom interviews me, he makes me think. This is good. I would love to hear your comments about this one. We started with transparency and wove our way around to several topics. I even ranted about the craziness of individual raises and how that disturbs the system of working in...
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Leanpub Podcast Up
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by Johanna Rothman
Apr 2 2012 - 10:43am
A few weeks ago, Peter Armstrong interviewed me for Leanpub, to ask me why I enjoyed writing on Leanpub. That podcast is up now on the Leanpub Buzz page.What’s very funny is that the interview is a few weeks old. I had no idea he was going to post it right after I wrote Dear Author. About 11 minutes in, I talk about the boring trap, the passive voice trap in my own writing. I think this is pretty...
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