Managerial Competence: The Key to Surviving Change
by Johanna Rothman. Originally published in Cutter’s Business-IT Alignment E-Mail Advisor, April 26, 2000. In response to Jim Highsmith’s Business-IT Strategies E-Mail Advisor of 1 March, “Change Is...
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Manager, Heal Thyself: Improving Software Processes Means Changing Management...
© 2001 Esther Derby and Johanna Rothman. This article was originally published in Cutter IT Journal, October 2001. Suppose you are a manager in a software development organization that isn’t achieving...
View ArticlePractice: A Necessary Part of Change
© 2002 Johanna Rothman. This article was originally publishedby Cutter, February 2002. You’ve decided that now is a good time to improve everyone’s skills with a little training. Maybe you’re planning...
View ArticlePrepare to Become More Influential
Prepare to Become More Influential When you want to make a change, you need other people to work with you. Maybe you want your organization to transition to agile. Maybe it’s time to experiment with...
View ArticleThree Tips for Artisanal Change
Three Tips for Artisanal Change Have you ever tasted a superb strawberry just off a family farm? Or a micro brew beer from a small brewery or a chocolate from superior chocolatier? If you have, you can...
View ArticleHow Do You Change?
How Do You Change? I’ve been working with people who want to transition to agile. They read about it. They hear stories about. They realize the benefits if it. But they haven’t yet done the hard work...
View ArticleCreating Change That Lasts
Creating Change That Lasts Do you want to make a change that lasts, a change that sustains itself over time? Maybe a change such as transitioning to agile? Some of you have made agile work for one...
View ArticleWhen Is It Time for a Change?
Vol 10 #8: When is It Time for a Change? ISSN: 2164-1196 Sept 13, 2013 When Is It Time for a Change? How do you know it’s time for you to make a change? Is your project swimming along–or is it...
View ArticleJohanna’s 2013 New Year’s Tips
Johanna’s 2013 New Year’s Tips Every year, I provide you three New Year’s tips, to start your year off right. Here are my three tips for 2013: Tip #1: Experiment. I’ve noticed that many of my clients...
View ArticleEmergent Projects: Managing the Unpredictable
Emergent Projects: Managing the Unpredictable Are you planning a change project, managing your way through a job search, or some other not-totally-deterministic project? Wouldn’t it be nice if life...
View ArticleWorkshop: An Agile Approach to Organizational Change
Workshop Objective: Understand how agile changes the culture of your organization. Now that you are transitioning to a more transparent culture, what do you need to do? Agile is a journey of continuous...
View ArticleIs Your Agile Journey Based on Problems or Process?
Is Your Agile Journey Based on Problems or Process? You can start your agile journey in any number of ways. Some people like to start with Scrum, because it’s a project management framework. Some...
View ArticleWhat I Wish I'd Said for the Lightning Talk: 100% Utilization
I did decide to talk about how we got started on 100% utilization and what to do about it. I didn’t say everything I wanted to say, so here is what I wish I’d said: How 100% Utilization Got Started...
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When You Have No Product Owner At All
What happens when you have no product owner at all? How does a team know what features to develop in what order? Several teams I know encountered this. They all had product managers. Most of them had...
View ArticleWhat Team Does the Product Owner/Responsible Person Belong To?
In my post, When You Have No Product Owner at All, I said That’s because agile needs a responsible person who is not part of the cross-functional technical team to rank the backlog so the team knows...
View ArticlePragmatic Manager Posted & Update Site
I have finally posted my most recent email newsletter, Three Myths and Three Tips. It took a while because I was converting my site to WordPress and I did not want to maintain the site in two places. I...
View ArticleInfluence and Authority Slides Posted
I delivered a keynote about influence and authority last week at Better Software/Agile Development Practices. I have also uploaded them to slideshare. For those of you who were not at the conference, I...
View ArticleWould You Take A Pledge to Not Speak at All-Male Panels at Tech Conferences?
I saw this post yesterday, A Simple Suggestion to Help Phase Out All-Male Panels at Tech Conferences. And, I wondered what I would do, if I was male. Let me provide a little more context. I had a...
View ArticleDo You Have an Emergent Project?
I just finished the electronic version of Manage Your Job Search, integrating my comments from my beta reviewers. I’m getting the book ready for print and audio now. One of my realizations is that a...
View ArticleInfoQ Interviews Posted
While I was on vacation in early January, there were two interviews posted on InfoQ: Ben Linders interviewed Esther Derby, Don Gray, and me about the Change Artistry book. I’m really pleased about the...
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