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My podcast this week is from the Continual Planning book. Enjoy! Note: If you read this in an RSS reader, you might not see the frame below with the actual podcast. If so, please click through to this post or subscribe to the podcast itself (Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman). Thanks. The Podcast: The [ ] The post 2026.22 When Planning Outpaces Delivery appeared first on Johanna Rothman .
How does your team show progress? Do they use activity-based (cost accounting) measures? Or, do they demo running, tested features? And possibly use a product backlog burnup chart to see each feature set s relative progress? How can we understand the costs of this progress? I am a big fan of demos and a product backlog [ ] The post How Flow Exposes the Reality and Costs of Progress, Part 2…
My podcast this week is from the Continual Planning book. If you are curious about the origins of this, read Why Minimize Management Decision Time. Enjoy! Note: If you read this in an RSS reader, you might not see the frame below with the actual podcast. If so, please click through to this post or [ ] The post 2026.21 Management Costs of Delay appeared first on Johanna Rothman .
All organizations use cost accounting to report on their revenue, including profit and loss. We are so accustomed to using cost accounting that we don t realize how it hides the truth about our progress. Worse, cost accounting creates and reinforces a culture of resource efficiency thinking. (In resource efficiency, the person is the unit of [ ] The post How Cost Accounting Hides the Truth from…
This week s podcast is from the Continual Planning book. I embed the podcast as a frame in these posts. If you cannot see the podcast, please click through to the post itself. (Or, get the RSS feed and listen in the podcast player of your choice.) The Podcast: The Transcript: This is 60 Seconds of [ ] The post 2026.20 Opportunity Costs Are Not the Same as the Costs of Delay appeared first on…
I ve been writing professionally since 1997. While you might not agree with my stances on anything I write, you can tell I wrote it. Even in my early writing, my author voice shines through. And I love my em-dashes and commas. (Part of me would like to believe the LLMs stole so much of my [ ] The post How to Use AI for Writing Without Stealing from Others, Yourself, or Cheating Your Readers…
This week s podcast is from the Continual Planning book. Enjoy! (I embed the podcast in a frame just below the Podcast heading. If you do not see the frame, please click through to hear it. Or, check out the YouTube video below.) The Podcast: The Transcript: This is 60 Seconds of Writing in Public with [ ] The post 2026.19 The Sigh Test appeared first on Johanna Rothman .
This is Johanna Rothman’s July 2026 Pragmatic Manager Newsletter. The Unsubscribe link is at the bottom of this newsletter. (Looking for the video? I post the video within a few days of publication on my YouTube channel.) Are you drowning in work? While I mostly speak with project and program managers, or people managers, everyone [ ] The post Drowning in Work? Three Tips to Help You Choose Your…
If you recently published a book, as I did, you might have this same experience. The scammers are out in full force. Here s what keeps happening to me. I receive an email with a Gmail address, from a person who claims to represent a reputable book club. (I find it interesting that they tell me [ ] The post Public Speaking Myth 10: Speakers Must Pay to Speak to an Audience appeared first on Johanna…
My podcast this week is from the Continual Planning book. While I do embed the podcast into this post, you might not see it. Or, you might see a black or white box, depending on whether you read directly or from my RSS feed. You can always click through to the podcast, or subscribe in [ ] The post 2026.18. Plan Confirmation Bias appeared first on Johanna Rothman .