SPaMCAST 468 - Johanna Rothman, Create Your Successful Agile Project

Published: Nov. 12, 2017, 10 p.m.

b'SPaMCAST 468 features the return of Johanna Rothman. Johanna and I discussed her new book, . \\xa0(Buy your copy today and support Johanna and the SPaMCAST). \\xa0Johanna provides incredibly useful and pragmatic insights for delivering value to your customers and stakeholders! Johanna Rothman, known as the \\u201cPragmatic Manager,\\u201d provides frank advice for your tough product development problems. Johanna is the author of more than ten books, including: Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, 2nd ed Diving for Hidden Treasures: Finding the Value in Your Project Portfolio (with Jutta Eckstein) Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Project Schedule or Cost See more of Johanna\\u2019s writing on http://www.jrothman.com, and http://www.createadaptablelife.com. Contact Johanna at: Email: \\xa0jr@jrothman.com Web: \\xa0\\xa0www.jrothman.com Previous interview with Johanna Upcoming Appearances Metricas 2017 I will be keynoting on Agile leadership and delivering one my favorite presentations, Function Points and Pok\\xe9mon Go 29 November 2017 Sao Paulo, Brazil \\u21d2 Re-Read Saturday News This week we re-read Chapter 4 of Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability: An Introduction by Daniel S. Vacanti. Chapter 4 is titled, An Introduction to CFDs. Cumulative Flow Diagrams deliver a huge amount of actionable information. \\xa0This chapter lays down the basics needed to build a CFD. \\xa0! Previous Installments Dead Tree Book https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/098643633X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=098643633X&linkCode=as2&tag=softprocandme-20&linkId=3488b22252fbe0c99b33ea226f9dcdf5 Kindle https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013ZQ5TUQ/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B013ZQ5TUQ&linkCode=as2&tag=softprocandme-20&linkId=f5bdfb462b1cb570344bba7dff6e3c37 Get your copy and begin reading (or re-reading)! A Call To Action Can you tell a friend about Software Process and Measurement Cast? \\xa0I know you enjoy the podcast and if you are like your friends, so will they. \\xa0Tell them about the cast and perhaps show them how to download the podcast. Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 469 features our essay on consensus decision-making. \\xa0Consensus decision-making is one of the most prevalent decision-making tools in organizations today. But, consensus decision-making has it plusses and minuses. We will decide to discuss this. We will also have columns from Kim Pries (The Software Sensei) and from Steve Tendon, who will bring us part 2 of chapter 20 of Tame The Flow: Hyper-Productive Knowledge-Work Performance, The TameFlow Approach and Its Application to Scrum and Kanban \\xa0(). Shameless Ad for my book! co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: \\u201cThis book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, for you or your team.\\u201d Support SPaMCAST by buying the book nglish and Chinese.'