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Topic: Johanna Rothman

  
TEAMWORK   |  2 comments

The Clean Desk Club

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Jul 28, 2004 at 4:19 PM

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»

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Project Respect

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Jun 16, 2004 at 12:22 PM

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»

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT   |  1 comment

Conference Commandments

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu May 27, 2004 at 7:15 PM

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»

CHANGE AGENTS   |  1 comment

Change from the Bottom Up


Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Aug 30, 2004 at 11:10 AM

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»

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Multitask Master II

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Mar 24, 2004 at 1:33 PM

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»

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Project Rejects

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Feb 24, 2004 at 2:13 PM

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»

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The Rhythm Methodology

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Feb 3, 2004 at 1:14 PM

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»

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Lunch Is Fun(ctional)

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Jan 30, 2004 at 12:50 PM

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»

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Meet the Challenge of Technical Recruiting

BY Louise Kursmark
Relevancy Score: 98
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:43 AM

Technical recruiting demands the participation of both HR professionals and hiring managers and technology experts.READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  3 comments

Best Practices, Practices, Just Great

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 85
Tue Dec 30, 2003 at 2:28 PM

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»

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Work-Life Balance (Spread)Sheet

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 41
Mon Apr 19, 2004 at 12:28 PM

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»

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IM Pay

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 27
Thu Sep 2, 2004 at 6:18 PM

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»

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Reading Your Folders, over Your Shoulder

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 6
Fri Feb 25, 2005 at 11:35 AM

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»