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Johanna Rothman

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2026.23 HiPPOs Destroy Psychological Safety

<p>This week&#8217;s podcast is from the Continual Planning book. Enjoy! I use a frame to embed the podcast into this post. Some RSS readers and some email clients do not show that. If you see nothing after &#8220;The Podcast,&#8221; please click through to this post. Or, look for &#8220;Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman&#8221; in [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2026/08/2026-23-hippos-destroy-psychological-safety/">2026.23 HiPPOs Destroy Psychological Safety</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.jrothman.com">Johanna Rothman</a>.</p>

8/21/2026
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Three Ways to Use Guardrails to Make Progress and Adapt to Frequent Change

<p>This is Johanna Rothman&#8217;s August 2026 Pragmatic Manager newsletter. The Unsubscribe link is at the bottom of this email. Do you feel as if you&#8217;re in the middle of too-frequent change? I do. Even though I only have manageable and relatively small projects, I can&#8217;t quite see around the various corners to predict what I [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.jrothman.com/newsletter/2026/08/three-ways-to-use-guardrails-to-make-progress-and-adapt-to-frequent-change/">Three Ways to Use Guardrails to Make Progress and Adapt to Frequent Change</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.jrothman.com">Johanna Rothman</a>.</p>

8/20/2026
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2026.22 When Planning Outpaces Delivery

<p>My podcast this week is from the Continual Planning book. Enjoy! Note: If you read this in an RSS reader, you might not see the frame below with the actual podcast. If so, please click through to this post or subscribe to the podcast itself (Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman). Thanks. The Podcast: The [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2026/08/2026-22-when-planning-outpaces-delivery/">2026.22 When Planning Outpaces Delivery</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.jrothman.com">Johanna Rothman</a>.</p>

8/14/2026
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How Flow Exposes the Reality and Costs of Progress, Part 2

<p>How does your team show progress? Do they use activity-based (cost accounting) measures? Or, do they demo running, tested features? And possibly use a product backlog burnup chart to see each feature set&#8217;s relative progress? How can we understand the costs of this progress? I am a big fan of demos and a product backlog [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2026/08/how-flow-exposes-the-reality-and-costs-of-progress-part-2/">How Flow Exposes the Reality and Costs of Progress, Part 2</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.jrothman.com">Johanna Rothman</a>.</p>

8/12/2026
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2026.21 Management Costs of Delay

<p>My podcast this week is from the Continual Planning book. If you are curious about the origins of this, read Why Minimize Management Decision Time. Enjoy! Note: If you read this in an RSS reader, you might not see the frame below with the actual podcast. If so, please click through to this post or [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2026/08/2026-21-management-costs-of-delay/">2026.21 Management Costs of Delay</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.jrothman.com">Johanna Rothman</a>.</p>

8/7/2026
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How Cost Accounting Hides the Truth from Management, Part 1

<p>All organizations use cost accounting to report on their revenue, including profit and loss. We are so accustomed to using cost accounting that we don&#8217;t realize how it hides the truth about our progress. Worse, cost accounting creates and reinforces a culture of resource efficiency thinking. (In resource efficiency, the person is the unit of [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2026/08/how-cost-accounting-hides-the-truth-from-management-part-1/">How Cost Accounting Hides the Truth from Management, Part 1</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.jrothman.com">Johanna Rothman</a>.</p>

8/6/2026
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2026.20 Opportunity Costs Are Not the Same as the Costs of Delay

<p>This week&#8217;s podcast is from the Continual Planning book. I embed the podcast as a frame in these posts. If you cannot see the podcast, please click through to the post itself. (Or, get the RSS feed and listen in the podcast player of your choice.) The Podcast: The Transcript: This is 60 Seconds of [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2026/07/2026-20-opportunity-costs-are-not-the-same-as-the-costs-of-delay/">2026.20 Opportunity Costs Are Not the Same as the Costs of Delay</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.jrothman.com">Johanna Rothman</a>.</p>

7/31/2026
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How to Use AI for Writing Without Stealing from Others, Yourself, or Cheating Your Readers

<p>I&#8217;ve been writing professionally since 1997. While you might not agree with my stances on anything I write, you can tell I wrote it. Even in my early writing, my author voice shines through. And I love my em-dashes and commas. (Part of me would like to believe the LLMs stole so much of my [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2026/07/how-to-use-ai-for-writing-without-stealing-from-others-yourself-or-cheating-your-readers/">How to Use AI for Writing Without Stealing from Others, Yourself, or Cheating Your Readers</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.jrothman.com">Johanna Rothman</a>.</p>

7/28/2026
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2026.19 The Sigh Test

<p>This week&#8217;s podcast is from the Continual Planning book. Enjoy! (I embed the podcast in a frame just below the Podcast heading. If you do not see the frame, please click through to hear it. Or, check out the YouTube video below.) The Podcast: The Transcript: This is 60 Seconds of Writing in Public with [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2026/07/2026-19-the-sigh-test/">2026.19 The Sigh Test</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.jrothman.com">Johanna Rothman</a>.</p>

7/24/2026
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Drowning in Work? Three Tips to Help You Choose Your Single Focus

<p>This is Johanna Rothman’s July 2026 Pragmatic Manager Newsletter. The Unsubscribe link is at the bottom of this newsletter. (Looking for the video? I post the video within a few days of publication on my YouTube channel.) Are you drowning in work? While I mostly speak with project and program managers, or &#8220;people&#8221; managers, everyone [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.jrothman.com/newsletter/2026/07/drowning-in-work-three-tips-to-help-you-choose-your-single-focus/">Drowning in Work? Three Tips to Help You Choose Your Single Focus</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.jrothman.com">Johanna Rothman</a>.</p>

7/23/2026
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