Johanna Rothman is a well-known consultant, speaker, and author on managing high-technology product development. During her decade-long consulting career, she has assisted managers, teams, and organizations become more effective by applying her pragmatic approaches to the issues of project management, risk management, and people management. She’s helped Engineering organizations, IT organizations, and startups hire technical people, manage projects, and release successful products faster. Her action-based assessment reports have helped managers and teams improve their projects, products, and financial results. She is a sought-after speaker and teacher in the areas of project management, people management, and problem-solving. Johanna has written over 100 articles and papers and is now a frequent author for Fast Company’s online career center, Software Development, Computerworld.com, and StickyMinds.com. Johanna is the author of the highly acclaimed Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets and Science of Hiring Technical People.

Rothman Consulting Group, Inc. is a woman owned small business incorporated in 1994. The firm works with companies to improve their product development practices – to maximize productivity and improve quality. I work with managers to ship the right product at the right time, hire the people, plan the projects, get features in, get the defects out and ship the product on time. Pragmatic by nature, I believe we need to balance all the business goals: corporate, project, product and process against what the people can actually perform. Part of my pragmatic view of product development processes and quality management systems is that I expect they are supposed to make it easier for all contributors to contribute to the goal: make, sell, and service a product. These processes and systems should enable management to do the managing and technical contributors to contribute, not for management or technical contributors to be confined by the system. I work with you, your staff, and your current product development practices. Together, we learn what works well for you and what doesn’t. I believe in changing only what needs to be changed at the current time, to maximize your success. We work together to develop a blueprint for the future, and to build in capacity to recognize and implement change.

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