Johanna Rothman
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Expert in managing product development. Writer, speaker, consultant. 20 books and counting. (Fiction, also) See https://www.jrothman.com for everything.
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· 18h
Project Charter Part 4: Define Release Criteria so You Know What Done Means & Avoid Scope Creep - Johanna Rothman
So far, I've addressed how a project charter can help a team start a project fast and well. That's why the project charter must clarify product vision, the various project risks, and product risks. An...
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· 11d
2025.36 Portal Fantasy Short Story Opening - Johanna Rothman
This week, my podcast is the opening of a short story, a portal fantasy. Enjoy! The Podcast: The Transcript: This is 60 Seconds of Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman for October 10, 2025, where I ...
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· 12d
How Can You Solve Problems When the Real Problems Are Cultural Changes? (Part 1) - Create an Adaptable Life
Most of my communities feel as if the world is in disarray. The agile community wants to “go back” to when Scrum ruled the world. Too many politicians want to “go back” to a supposedly simpler time. W...
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· 15d
Project Charter Part 3: How Product Risks Can Support or Change Your Feedback Loop Choices - Johanna Rothman
In Project Charter Part 2: Clarify the Project Driver, Boundaries, and Constraints for This Project, I explained how project risks can affect the team's approach to the work. But project risks are not...
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· 20d
Project Charter Part 2: Clarify the Project Driver, Boundaries, and Constraints for This Project - Johanna Rothman
Let me set the context for this post about the project charter: By now, the team knows what it has to accomplish because they have a product vision. The next question is: How will the team manage thei...
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· 20d
How Can We Manage to See the "Other" Perspective to Create a Greater Good? - Create an Adaptable Life
There are two parallel ideas going on in my world right now. First, the news is full of “us” vs. “other.” We don’t believe “them.” They don’t trust “us.” Second, tonight is the start of Yom Kippur, wh...
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· 23d
How to See the Blind Spots That Maintain the Current System, Useful or Useless - Johanna Rothman
This is Johanna Rothman's September 2025 Pragmatic Manager newsletter. The Unsubscribe link is at the bottom of this email. Humans excel at seeing problem signals—the signs that we have a problem. How...
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· 25d
2025.35 Solarpunk Short Story Opening - Johanna Rothman
My podcast this week is from a fiction story. After I wrote this part, I realized I started in the wrong place. So you get the benefit of reading something I will definitely change later today. Yes, I...
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· 29d
Project Charter Part 1: Write (And Test) a Product Vision for This Project - Johanna Rothman
Does your team have an overarching goal for its work—a product vision? Too many teams do not. The whole point of a project is to deliver a useful product that satisfies its customers. I like to think ...
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅
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· Sep 20
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· Sep 19
2025.34 Black Boxes on a Virtual Presentation - Johanna Rothman
This week's podcast is from the Effective Public Speaking book. The cover people are working on a back cover, which means I'm close, close, close to the end of the publication work. Yay! The Podcast: ...
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· Sep 19
How Would You Act if You Optimized for Uncertainty to Gain More Resilience? - Create an Adaptable Life
This is Johanna Rothman’s September 2025 Create an Adaptable Life Newsletter. The unsubscribe link is at the bottom of this email. Do you like uncertainty? I don’t, and I’m not alone. That’s because u...
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A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’
Infants in Rx Kids in Flint, Michigan, saw lower rates of prematurity and other issues, saving millions in NICU visits
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· Sep 18
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Johanna Rothman
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· Sep 17
How to Create a Useful Project Charter in Less Time Than You Think: Overview - Johanna Rothman
Does your team have a project charter so they know what to do for this project? I see too many teams try to start work without one. That leads to feature factories, apparently random work that does no...
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· Sep 15
Storytelling is Problem Solving on the LabView Experiment Podcast - Johanna Rothman
Are you trying to change people's minds? Data can help. But data is not enough. We all need stories to make that human connection. That's the point of the podcast I recorded with Sam Taggart: Storytel...
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