Johanna Rothman offers a useful way to tidy up your workspace and organize the office detritus that tends to accumulate. It's so simple that organizational expert Hope Lafferty might even agree.
Take a storage box and put a bunch of ...READ»
Johanna Rothman offers some interesting insights on the issue of respecting projects. She contends that not paying attention to a project, not dedicating enough resources to a project, delaying a schedule, or failing to set clear ...READ»
In a relatively substantial entry in her blog Managing Product Development, Johanna Rothman explores the value of attending conferences and trade shows. Basically positing that conferences can provide inexpensive alternatives to the ...READ»
You are frustrated with the progress of your project. You want more attention from your manager, hoping he can help your team, but he is overextended, working on several projects. He's just not accessible. What to do?
Johanna ...READ»
Building on a discussion FC Now readers started last month, Johanna Rothman has written an article for StickyMinds about the risks of working on multiple high-priority projects at the same time.
Using the term "multiprojecting," ...READ»
Perhaps all of us have worked on a project that seems to never end. Plans are made. Deadlines assigned. Yet there's almost always something that someone else still needs to do -- or something that gets hung up. Johanna Rothman ...READ»
Johanna Rothman shares some thoughts today on the rhythm of projects. Riffing off the flow of the Superbowl game -- and the roles offense and defense can play in projects -- she offers this cautionary advice:
If you attempt to work ...READ»
Johanna Rothman offers some thoughtful ideas on the value of lunch meetings.
The quality of the conversation over lunch tends to be richer, especially when people take a full hour for lunch. Lunch is free peer consulting across the ...READ»
In her blog Managing Product Development, Johanna Rothman shares some thoughts on why best practices don't always guarantee success. It's a solid question: How do you tailor other organizations' best practices to best meet the needs ...READ»
Stewart Brand recommends Llamagraphics' Life Balance software -- the "to-do list for real life" -- as a useful tool to do more and stress less.
The "life balance" part comes at the start of using the software. You define a half ...READ»
Recent research indicates that instant messaging is slowly growing in use within companies, with 21% of those surveyed indicating that they use IM at work. Respondents were torn between whether the tool is a solid tool for the ...READ»
Earlier this week in her blog Managing Product Development, Johanna Rothman shares a story about a colleague who just learned that his boss reads his email. Does your manager read your email? How does that feel? Is this productive -- ...READ»
