Agile Projects Need Full Commitment By Johanna Rothman I do believe in small steps for projects. I’ve long been an advocate of inch-pebbles, of standup meetings, of iterations and incremental development. I love knowing...
Partial Commitments to Projects Create Unpredictable Projects By Johanna Rothman There’s a discussion on a mailing list about a partially committed-to project: there aren’t enough people on the project, the people don’t have the...
Convincing Management That Context Switching Is a Bad Idea By Johanna Rothman The last few times I’ve taught project management, I’ve explained that multi-project context switching wastes time. The project managers agree with me....
Sunny Skies or Storms – A Fresh Way to Assess Your Project Performance By Johanna Rothman I’ve long advocated test managers having a mission of assessing the state of the project and reporting on...
How To Measure Project Completion (#3 in the series Measuring Project Progress) By Johanna Rothman By using several measurements around the project pyramid, you can measure project completion. Project completion is a function of...
How to Be a Proactive Project Manager By Johanna Rothman How can you be a proactive project manager? Here are some suggestions for being more proactive: Measure fault feedback ratio (ratio of bad fixes...
Killing Political Projects By Johanna Rothman Recently, we talked about avoiding dead projects. Now it’s time to talk about the hardest project category: the political project. Killing political projects is difficult, because it’s not...
Managing Across the Globe: Build Trust (#3 in the series Tips to Managing Across the Globe) By Johanna Rothman But by far, the most critical action a manager or project manager can take with...
Managing Across the Globe: Define Clear, System-Based Milestones (#1 in the series Tips to Managing Across the Globe) By Johanna Rothman So you’re managing people and projects around the world. It’s not easy, and...
Project Management – How to Avoid Dead Projects By Johanna Rothman I visit many different organizations over the course of the year. As I begin working with a client, inevitably someone whispers to me,...
