--- title: "Israeli Geek Dinner with Johanna Rothman" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/11/29/israeli-geek-dinner-with-johanna-rothman.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/11/29/israeli-geek-dinner-with-johanna-rothman.html" published: "2004-11-29T22:04:00" updated: "2004-11-29T22:04:00" tags: ["Blogging"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Mark your calendars. There's going to be another geek/nerd dinner. And it's going to be on the 7th of December (a week from now). The guest of honor will be Johanna Rothman . Johanna is perhaps best known in the…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Israeli Geek Dinner with Johanna Rothman By Roy Osherove November 29, 2004 In [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging) **Historical article** · Originally published November 29, 2004; technical details may be outdated. Mark your calendars. There's going to be another geek/nerd dinner. And it's going to be on the **7th of December** (a week from now). The guest of honor will be [Johanna Rothman](http://www.jrothman.com/). Johanna is perhaps best known in the blogsphere for the two excellent blogs that she produces, both relating to technology and management: [Hiring Technical People](http://www.jrothman.com/weblog/htpblogger.html), and [Managing Product Development](http://www.jrothman.com/weblog/blogger.html). If you don't know these blogs you should start reading them. She writes very eloquently about topics we all should be caring more about, but usually don't have someone to ask about. Other than that she's authored some very interesting books on these subjects ([here](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0932633595/iserializable-20) and [here](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0971323194/iserializable-20)), is a national speaker in PM events and does talks all around the globe. She'll be coming to Israel for a week, and this is the second time that we will be grabbing her for a chat and a dinner. [Last time was very very interesting](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2004/05/10/128801.aspx). So - like I said - mark your calendars. What's she doing here you ask? She's doing a week's teaching at SELA university. Now here's a question - why isn't Sela doing some blogging? If they had a blog about this I'd be linking to it right now and probably generating some good profits their way. Oh well, their loss. ## More in Blogging [All posts in Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging) - Dec 2, 2004 ### [TestDriven.Net Referrals view - in SVG format](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/2/testdrivennet-referrals-view-in-svg-format.html) - Nov 29, 2004 ### [Making your point, Santo style](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/11/29/making-your-point-santo-style.html) - Nov 29, 2004 ### [Geek Dinner was juust fine...](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/11/29/geek-dinner-was-juust-fine.html) - Nov 7, 2004 ### [What blogs are other people reading?](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/11/7/what-blogs-are-other-people-reading.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/