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BT12 Session 6/6/2013 3:45 PM "Exploding Management Myths" Presented by: Johanna Rothman Rothman Consulting Group, Inc. Brought to you by: 340 Corporate Way, Suite 300, Orange Park, FL 32073 8882688770 9042780524 [email protected] www.sqe.com

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We’ve all heard management “nuggets” such as “make people come to you with solutions, nut just problems,” or “training time is wasted time,” or my favorite, “work smarter.” But how are you supposed to do that, especially if you may not have received any management training, or if your gut is telling you what you’re doing might not be working? Johanna Rothman explains that much of what you have heard about management is myth—based not on evidence, but on ideas dating from the Industrial Revolution. However, many myths have a germ of truth. If you would like to learn about these germs—the kinds of training that are useless and the kinds that are useful, how to really work smarter, how to help people develop solutions when they are stuck—the kind of management that empowers knowledge workers, join Johanna in exploding management myths.

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BT12 Session 6/6/2013 3:45 PM 

       

"Exploding Management Myths"    

Presented by:

Johanna Rothman Rothman Consulting Group, Inc.

           

Brought to you by:  

  

340 Corporate Way, Suite 300, Orange Park, FL 32073 888‐268‐8770 ∙ 904‐278‐0524 ∙ [email protected] ∙ www.sqe.com

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Johanna Rothman Rothman Consulting Group, Inc.

Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” helps organizational leaders identify problems and risks in their product development helping them recognize potential “gotchas,” seize opportunities, and remove impediments. Johanna is the technical editor for agileconnection.com and is the author of Manage Your Job Search, Hiring Geeks That Fit, Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, the 2008 Jolt Productivity award-winning Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management, and Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management. She is currently writing a book about agile program management. In addition, she writes columns for Stickyminds.com and projectmanagment.com, and writes two blogs on her web site,jrothman.com, as well as a blog on createadaptablelife.com.  

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Exploding Management Myths

Johanna Rothmanwww.jrothman.com@[email protected]

781-641-4046

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“Utilize Everyone All the Time”

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A mind is a terrible thing to

waste

Context switching wastes

people, prevents

innovation, and makes

everything take longer

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“Promote the Best Technical Person Into Management”

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Management work is

different from technical

work

Managers work outside the

team

Managers need

interpersonal skills

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“We Have NO Time For Training”

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We are too busy running

like hamsters, making do

“If you train people, they

will leave”

If you don’t train them, they

might stay

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“Work Smarter”

Who wants to work

dumber?

Exhortations don’t work

Management has to create

the environment in which

teams can “work smarter”

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“I Need an Expert for This...”

Project dependencies

create bottlenecks

Never let experts work

alone

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“I Know What Everyone is Doing”

One-on-ones are for more

than just status reports

Build trust and a working

relationship

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“An Objective Ranking System Works”

What’s objective about it?

Software is a team sport

and we rank people against

each other? In a zero-sum

game?

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“Time Spent at Work is a Useful Measure of Work”

Who here has had good

days and bad days at work?

The only measure is

features complete

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“I Know How Long the Work Should Take...”

Conceptually easy to

understand is not the same

as easy to complete

related to Dunning-Kruger

effect

Wanting to have the work

take less time does not

make it so10

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What’s your favorite management myth?

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You Can Help Me

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Would you like a book

about these myths?

What would a great title

be?

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Let’s Stay In Touch...

I’ve been writing the myths, one a month on Stickyminds,

and then posting afterwards on my site,

www.jrothman.com

Pragmatic Manager: www.jrothman.com/

pragmaticmanager

Please link with me on LinkedIn

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