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Pairing Helps

Posted by: Johanna Rothman on 02/09/2010

I’ve been working with Gil Broza on our teleclass series, Prevent Your Agile Titanic, both on marketing it and on its content. And it never fails, we have questions for each other almost every day. Sometimes I’m developing something and it looks “funny.” So I ask for review. Sometimes, as with the content, we discuss and one writes, and then we switch.

Pairing seems natural to us. We hadn’t paired before this venture, and that doesn’t matter. We are both ready to pair, which helps. Neither of us have egos that get in the way of the outcome: a great series of classes.

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About Johanna Rothman

Johanna Rothman helps managers and leaders solve problems and seize opportunities.

She consults, speaks, and writes on managing high-technology product development. She enables managers, teams, and organizations to become more effective by applying her pragmatic approaches to the issues of project management, risk management, and people management.

Johanna writes two blogs: Managing Product Development and Hiring Technical People. She is the author of:

- Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects.

- 2008 Jolt Productivity award winning Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management

- Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (with Esther Derby)

- Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets and Science of Hiring Technical People

Find more of Johanna's articles and her blogs at www.jrothman.com.

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