Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” provides frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams see problems and resolve risks and manage their product development.

Johanna has been managing projects and programs since the Neanderthal era. She is the current agileconnection.com technical editor. She is the author of these books:

• 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
• 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
• 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

Johanna writes the Pragmatic Manager, a monthly email newsletter. She writes two blogs on her site, www.jrothman.com, as well as a blog on www.createadaptablelife.com. She is a columnist about management for Techwell.com and is a columnist about agile project management for projectmanagement.com.