--- title: "My interview with Johanna Rothman goes live on ITConversations.Com" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/29/my-interview-with-johanna-rothman-goes-live-on-itconversatio.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/29/my-interview-with-johanna-rothman-goes-live-on-itconversatio.html" published: "2004-12-29T21:56:00" updated: "2004-12-29T21:56:00" tags: ["Project Management"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Guest host Roy Osherove speaks with Johanna about everyday problems in project management, software delivery and the hiring of technical people. They discuss interviewing strategies, and some bad examples of…" 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/" --- # My interview with Johanna Rothman goes live on ITConversations.Com By Roy Osherove December 29, 2004 In [Project Management](https://osherove.com/blog/category/project-management) **Historical article** · Originally published December 29, 2004; technical details may be outdated. _[![](https://osherove.com/img/wb/a2bd769e_www.itconversations.com_assets_jpegs_rothman.jpg)](http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail392.html)_ _Guest host Roy Osherove speaks with Johanna about everyday problems in project management, software delivery and the hiring of technical people. They discuss interviewing strategies, and some bad examples of interviewing technique. Also: How do I improve myself as a project manager?. How do I deal with unrealistic project deadlines? What's wrong with running multiple projects at the same time? What is the most common management mistake? \[_ [_Listen_](http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail392.html) _\]_ _Johanna has written over 100 articles and papers and is now a columnist 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_](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0932633595/ref=nosim/iserializable-20)_, and is the coauthor of_ [_Corrective Action for the Software Industry_](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN//0971323194/ref=nosim/iserializable-20)_. Johanna is also a host and session leader at the Amplifying Your Effectiveness (AYE) conference._ --- Now is also a great time to mention that Johanna has two wonderful blogs: [Hiring technical people](http://www.jrothman.com/weblog/htpblogger.html) and  [Manageing product development](http://www.jrothman.com/weblog/blogger.html). Both are a must read for managers and developers. The interview was a good 85 minutes but I had to cut it short to around 60 minutes. Overall here are the conclusions: - I sound really weird in the first few minutes, and it may be a little too self critiquing, but I really was breaking my teeth for the first few sentences. I should be more adapt at this. - There were some wonderful questions in the interview, and some of the really good ones were "donated" by my wife, Tal. Thanks honey :) - Johanna is a great interviewee.  It was really fun talking with her! ## More in Project Management [All posts in Project Management](https://osherove.com/blog/category/project-management) - Jan 23, 2005 ### [The Quality Pledge](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/23/the-quality-pledge.html) - Jan 23, 2005 ### [About architecture and astronauts](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/23/about-architecture-and-astronauts.html) - Dec 8, 2004 ### [Chatting with Johanna Rothman](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/8/chatting-with-johanna-rothman.html) - Sep 3, 2004 ### [Great Coders Deserve Great Managers](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/9/3/great-coders-deserve-great-managers.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). 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