Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” provides frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams see problems, resolve risks, and manage their product development. Johanna is the author of fourteen 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
• 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: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver
• 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, 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