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Managing Product Development

added: Tue, 11th October 2005 | 204 views | 0x in favourites
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Johanna Rothman (Managing)

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Podcast Interview Posted

A couple of weeks ago (!), Tobias Fors and Magnus Ljadas interviewed me via skype. I have finally finished the editing of the podcast and it’s posted here. It’s also in iTunes, in the Pragmatic Manager podcast feed. Yes, I need a new microphone. It’s on my list, but not for this week

Starting and Finishing

I had coffee with a friend Saturday night. She said, “Our family has a tradition of starting many projects to see what we can stick with. If you don’t start a project, you can’t finish it.” She’s right. You certainly can’t finish something you don’t start. But the real question for all of is: Should we [...]

I’m Still An Employee Even if I’m Not Yours

When we arrived in Minneapolis, I tried to find an elevator down to baggage claim. (Yes, my knee is not working well enough to take an escalator.) I did find one, but it said “employees only.” Many people who travel are employees. They are just not your employees. No, I didn’t use the elevator–although I was [...]

Are Loyalty Programs Helping or Hurting Your Product?

Mark and I visited his family in the Midwest. We used miles to pay for my ticket. Aside from spending 50,000 miles (is it possible to get a ticket for 25,000 miles? We haven’t in years), it cost $5 for the ticket, $75 for the “services fees” and $15 to check one bag. Yes, this is still [...]

Matrix Management is Not the Root Cause

I was reading Ralph’s post, Whose Fault Is It?, and I realized that if you don’t know enough about management, you can misunderstand the root cause. Ralph’s example is of defects in an iteration and how they were not detected early enough because the acceptance criteria were missing. The criteria were missing because the testers [...]

Moving Team Members from Being Controlled to Taking Initiative

I spoke recently with a (new) Scrum Master with a team who’s new to Scrum. One of the team members is a little stuck. He doesn’t feel comfortable going to the task board to take a task when he’s done. He wants to wait until someone else is ready and then work with that person. Part [...]

I’m # 30 on Jurgen’s List

I don’t normally pay much attention to these kinds of things, but what the heck, this will give Jurgen a link back. Jurgen has collated the Top 100 Blogs for Development Managers (Q3 2008). I have no idea if he will continue to do this quarter after quarter (!). I’m glad that other people find this [...]

Whose ROI Is It?

I was trying to address the issue of ROI (Return on Investment) in the project portfolio book. I don’t buy project ROI. FIrst, the idea of a project for software is an artifical construct–our consumers buy running tested features, that we happen to package in a project to release as a product. But the idea [...]

Pragmatic Manager Email Posted

In July, I sent out the Pragmatic Manager email newsletter: 90% Done is Not Almost Done. I have finally posted it. Enjoy!

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