Project Management for You with Johanna Rothman (@johannarothman)

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Welcome to the twelfth episode of the Project Management for You series!

This series will run every weekday, for 4 weeks. Get ready for a ton of great conversations around Project Management principles, ideas, tools, and techniques.

Today I bring the pragmatic Johanna Rothman on to the show to get her take on Project Management.

We will cover:

• How would you define Project Management to the lay person?
• What is the least people need to know about Project Management to start on the path of getting things done?
• What are the stages of bringing an idea to reality?
• If you could recommend one technique from the PM world to the masses, what would it be and where can we learn it
• Managing projects often means working with other people. What’s the best way to know when and what to delegate, and to compel people to collaborate on a project?
• What are some tips for those who want to learn and use project management to get things done?

Johanna Rothman

Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” helps organizational leaders see problems and risks in their product development. She helps them recognize potential risks, seize opportunities, and remove impediments.

Johanna was the Agile 2009 conference chair. She is the current agileconnection.com technical editor. Johanna is the author of these books:

• Manage Your Job Search
• Hiring Geeks That Fit
• Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects
• Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
• Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management
• Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets and Science of Hiring Technical People

She is writing a book about agile and lean program management. She writes columns for Stickyminds.com and projectmanagment.com, and writes two blogs on her web site, jrothman.com, as well as a blog on createadaptablelife.com.

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