ワイクル株式会社 代表取締役、東京工業大学 環境・社会理工学院 特任講師。アジャイル開発やリーンスタートアップに関する書籍の翻訳を数多く担当し、それらの手法を企業に導入するコンサルティングに従事。主な訳書に『リーダブルコード』『Running Lean』『Team Geek』（オライリー・ジャパン）、『エクストリームプログラミング』『アジャイルレトロスペクティブズ』（オーム社）、『図解リーン・スタートアップ成長戦略』（日経BP社）、『Clean Coder』（KADOKAWA）など。大学では、起業家育成プログラムにおいて、「デザイン思考基礎」および企業と連携したPBL型講義「エンジニアリングデザインプロジェクト」を担当。共著書に『エンジニアのためのデザイン思考入門』（翔泳社）がある。

Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams do reasonable things that work. Equipped with that knowledge, they can then decide how to adapt their product development.

With her trademark practicality and humor, Johanna is the author of 18 books and hundreds of articles. Find the Pragmatic Manager, a monthly email newsletter, and her blogs at jrothman.com and createadaptablelife.com.

She is the author of these books:

• Modern Management Made Easy triad: Manage Yourself, Lead and Serve Others, Lead an Innovative Organization
• Successful Independent Consulting
• Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer
• Write a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts
• From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver (with Mark Kilby)
• Create Your Successful Agile Project
• Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization
• Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Cost or Schedule
• Diving for Hidden Treasures: Finding The Real Value in Your Project Portfolio (with Jutta Eckstein)
• Project Portfolio Tips: Twelve Ideas for Focusing on the Work You Need to Start & Finish
• Manage Your Job Search
• Hiring Geeks That Fit
• Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, 2nd ed.
• The 2008 Jolt Productivity award-winning Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
• Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (with Esther Derby)
• Corrective Action for the Software Industry (with Denise Robitaille)

In addition, she is a contributor to:

• Center Enter Turn Sustain: Essays on Change Artistry
• Readings for Problem Solving Leadership

For fiction:

• Sometime in Winter (a novella)