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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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Project Charter Part 6: The Product Vision Drives the Project Charter, Summary
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#ProductLeadership #ProjectCharter
Project Charter Part 6: The Product Vision Drives the Project Charter, Summary - Johanna Rothman
As far as I can tell, all organizations have the appetite for more work than they have people or time to do that work. It does not matter if the organization is one person or thousands. We all want to...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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My November Create an Adaptable Life newsletter: How Can You Assess the Value You Make and Receive to Design Your Best Future?
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#Change #Future
How Can You Assess the Value You Make and Receive to Design Your Best Future? - Create an Adaptable Life
This is Johanna Rothman’s November 2025 Create an Adaptable Life Newsletter. The unsubscribe link is at the bottom of this email. As a consultant, I use the value I offer to choose how to price my pro...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Check out Winter Delights: A Joyful Collection Full of Holiday Cheer by Jason A. Adams on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/jas...
Winter Delights: A Joyful Collection Full of Holiday Cheer
Ten stories celebrating family both natural and found, food, fun, and the occasional visit from the North Pole.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Project Charter Part 5: Workshop the Project Charter with the Right People to Manage Everyone's Time
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#ProjectManagement #ProductLeadership #ProjectCharter
Project Charter Part 5: Workshop the Project Charter with the Right People to Manage Everyone's Time - Johanna Rothman
I started this series by saying a team can create a useful project charter in less time than you think. So what prevents teams from doing so? Too often, the project is not ready. The team might be rea...
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November 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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My Weekly #WritingWIP: 2025.39 Fantasy Short Story Excerpt
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#Writing #Fiction
2025.39 Fantasy Short Story Excerpt - Johanna Rothman
My podcast this week is an excerpt from a fantasy short story. I will finish it today, mostly because it's due! Yes, I'm traveling. Yes, I agree, I look terrible. Too bad. I meet my deadlines. I promi...
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October 31, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Heads up on the new Affinity program.

You can tell them not to use your content to train AI, BUT, there is another AI setting that is on by default until you turn it off.

You need to go to your account settings and switch it off. I just found it switched on by default.
October 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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My October Pragmatic Manager newsletter: Leadership Tip 23: How to Speak Truth to Power
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#leadership #power #feedback
Leadership Tip 23: How to Speak Truth to Power - Johanna Rothman
This is Johanna Rothman's October 2025 Pragmatic Manager newsletter. The Unsubscribe link is at the bottom of this email. I happened to see a recent review of Practical Ways to Manage Yourself that ma...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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How Can We See and Steer Through Our Life "Crises" to Find a New Path?
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#QuestionOfTheWeek #Change
How Can We See and Steer Through Our Life "Crises" to Find a New Path? - Create an Adaptable Life
I just had a”Big Birthday,” the kind that ends in 5 or 0. So now, I am in the midst of a “senior life” crisis. It feels just like my previous crises, where I search to find a new role that fits my lif...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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A Terrific Effective Public Speaking Launch Video with @leanpub.bsky.social www.jrothman.com/mpd/2025/10/...
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#Speaking #BookMarketing
A Terrific Effective Public Speaking Launch Video with Leanpub - Johanna Rothman
I am so pleased to announce I have a short launch video for Effective Public Speaking: How to Use Content Marketing With Stories to Show Your Value. Len Epp, from Leanpub, interviewed me. We both had ...
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October 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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A Project Minute: Schedule Tools Do Not Predict the Future
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#ProjectManagement #Estimation
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October 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training
You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training
Nations previously exempt from scraping now in the firing line If you thought living in Europe, Canada, or Hong Kong meant you were protected from having LinkedIn scrape your posts to train its AI, think again. You have a week to opt out before the Microsoft subsidiary assumes you're fine with it.…
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October 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. - Brian Kernighan
Code From a 2015 BlackHat presentation
October 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Lots of story to sink your teeth into. Three novels in The In-Between Omnibus! Now on #Kickstarter! link.rebeccasenese.com/tib-kickstar... #books #booklovers #horrorbooks #vampirebooks #darkfantasybooks #horror #vampires
Vampire opening wide with fangs toward hardcover of Of Blood Of Flesh Of Soul: An Omnibus of The In-Between. Caption: Sink your teeth in... Funded now on Kickstarter! https://link.rebeccasenese.com/tib-kickstarter
October 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Have you heard that "No one wants technical books in audio."

That's not my experience. Audio readers are not the same as print or ebook readers. Start with this one and see/hear what you think.
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Create Your Successful Agile Project
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Unite agile and lean principles for your project. Design a custom approach, reap the benefits of collaboration, and deliver value.
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October 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Audio Weekend Pragmatic Pick:
Create Your Successful Agile Project
by @jrothman.com
Unite agile and lean principles for your project. Design a custom approach, reap the benefits of collaboration, and deliver value.
40% off audio or eBook
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October 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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My October 2025 Create an Adaptable Life newsletter: How to Change the Culture to Solve More of Our Real Problems (Part 2)
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How to Change the Culture to Solve More of Our Real Problems (Part 2) - Create an Adaptable Life
This is Johanna Rothman’s October 2025 Create an Adaptable Life Newsletter. The unsubscribe link is at the bottom of this email. In How Can You Solve Problems When the Real Problems Are Cultural Chang...
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October 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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My Weekly #WritingWIP: 2025.38 Spy Excerpt
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2025.38 Spy Excerpt - Johanna Rothman
This week's podcast is an excerpt from a romantic suspense spy story. Enjoy! The Podcast: The Transcript: This is 60 Seconds of Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman for October 24, 2025, where I rea...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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• Question and refine AI output instead of accepting it as-is

I think this shift — from specialists to adaptable generalists — is one of the biggest changes happening in software right now.

📖 Read the new Radar piece:
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AI Is Reshaping Developer Career Paths
From Specialists to Generalists
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October 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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just sent book six to the Fabulous Publisher Babe(tm) for Jan pre-orders.

you caught up?

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Trial By Leviathan, by Blaze Ward. Operation Marrakesh, Book One. Starship against a teal nebula
October 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Project Charter Part 4: Define Release Criteria so You Know What Done Means & Avoid Scope Creep
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#ProjectManagement #Charter
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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October 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Every week, I record a podcast and a video so other people can see a little about my #writing. This is last week's Weekly #WritingWIP: www.jrothman.com/mpd/2025/10/...
I was so involved in the writing, I forgot to hit publish or let you know. I love it when the story grabs me and makes me finish it.
2025.37 Romantic Suspense Opening - Johanna Rothman
This week's podcast is from the opening of a romantic suspense short story. Enjoy! (Update on Monday: I forgot to publish this because I was so focused on finishing the story!) The Podcast: The Transc...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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YOUR BUSINESS IS YOU (or, It's a Jungle Out There)
Wherein I cogitate about what it means to be a creative person with a very small business that's focused on showing people the cool stuff we make.

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October 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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A Management Minute: Who Deserves Your Trust: AI Agent, Your Team, or Your Network
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#Management #Trust
A Management Minute: Who Deserves Your Trust: AI Agent, Your Team, or Your Network - Johanna Rothman
The various AI vendors want us to trust their autonomous agents. I have several problems I would love to use AI to solve. (Including updating all the tags on this site!) However, I cannot trust the ag...
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October 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Circles and Soup -a collaboration technique to help teams visualize issues & take action. End the blame game; run more meaningful retrospectives.
Agile Retrospectives, 2e by Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, & David Horowitz
October 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM