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Cue the music . . . Happy Birthday, Software Process and Measurement Cast!\xa0 Today we begin year 15 with a visit from Johanna Rothman.\xa0 We talked about her THREE new books: Practical Ways to Manage Yourself: Modern Management Made Easy, Book 1 Practical Ways to Lead & Serve (Manage) Others: Modern Management Made Easy, Book 2 - \xa0 Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization: Modern Management Made Easy, Book 3 - \xa0 We of course covered more ground.\xa0 For example about 2/3rds of the way through we talked about why the word experiment is a dirty word in most organizations. This is a longer interview, but when I grow up I want to be just like Johanna (I am serious).\xa0 Here is her bio: Johanna Rothman, known as the \u201cPragmatic Manager,\u201d offers frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams do reasonable things that work. Equipped with that knowledge, they can decide how to adapt their product development. With her trademark practicality and humor, Johanna is the author of 18 books about many aspects of product development. Her most recent books are the Modern Management Made Easy series, From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams (with Mark Kilby) and Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver. See all her books, blog, and other resources at jrothman.com and createadaptablelife.com. The Software Process and Measurement Cast is a proud media sponsor of the DevOps Online Summit.\xa0 Not to put too fine a point on it, one of the best ways to get your message heard is to speak.\xa0 The crew at the DevOps Online Summit provides a phenomenal platform to network with fellow practitioners from all over the world. Start the journey to speaking at the DevOps Online Summit 2021 by submitting at \xa0 \xa0 Re-Read Saturday News\xa0 Today we take on Chapter 7 of by Jeff Dalton. In three more weeks, we will begin (it is time to buy a copy). This week\u2019s installment can be found at www.tomcagley.com/blog Previous installments: Week 1: - \xa0 Week 2: - Week 3: - \xa0 Week 4: - \xa0 Week 5: - \xa0 Week 6: - \xa0 Week 7: - \xa0 Week 8: - \xa0 Next SPaMCAST User Stories and Tony Timbol will take center stage. User stories are ubiquitous in agile.\xa0 Getting them right is really important. Tony gives us some ideas to move the ball forward.