About
About Johanna Rothman
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 20 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:
- Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility
- Successful Independent Consulting: Relationships That Focus on Mutual Benefit
- Modern Management Made Easy triad: Manage Yourself, Lead and Serve Others, Lead an Innovative Organization
- 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:
For fiction:
- Sometime in Winter (a novella)
Books
Books by Johanna Rothman
18 books by Johanna Rothman on Leanpub
Effective Public Speaking
Johanna Rothman
Project Lifecycles
Johanna Rothman
Successful Independent Consulting
Johanna Rothman
Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer
Johanna Rothman
Write a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts
Johanna Rothman
Agile and Lean Program Management
Johanna Rothman
Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization
Johanna Rothman
Practical Ways to Manage Yourself
Johanna Rothman
Practical Ways to Lead and Serve (Manage) Others
Johanna Rothman
PSL Reader
Esther Derby, Don Gray, Johanna Rothman, and Gerald M. Weinberg
From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams
Johanna Rothman and Mark Kilby
Sometime in Winter
Johanna Rothman
Diving For Hidden Treasures
Johanna Rothman and Jutta Eckstein
Predicting the Unpredictable
Johanna Rothman
Project Portfolio Tips
Johanna Rothman
Hiring Geeks That Fit
Johanna Rothman
Manage Your Job Search
Johanna Rothman
Change Artistry
Esther Derby, Gerald M. Weinberg, Johanna Rothman, and Don Gray
Bundles
Bundles by Johanna Rothman
3 bundles by Johanna Rothman on Leanpub
The Leanpub Podcast
An interview with Johanna Rothman
Episode 3 · 37:20 · April 4, 2012
Courses
Unpublished courses
2 courses by Johanna Rothman on Leanpub
For the press
Media Sheet
A one-page press kit for Johanna Rothman: bio, photo, books, testimonials and contact details, for journalists, podcast hosts and event organizers.
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