Johanna Rothman, known as the "Pragmatic Manager," provides frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams see problems and resolve risks and manage their product development.

Johanna was the Agile 2009 conference chair. Johanna is the author of several books including: Create Your Successful Agile Project, Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects (2nd ed), Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization, Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches for Estimating Cost or Schedule, Diving for Hidden Treasures: Finding the Value in Your Project Portfolio (with Jutta Eckstein), Manage Your Job Search, Hiring Geeks That Fit, Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management, and Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (with Esther Derby). See her writing on jrothman.com, and on createadaptablelife.com.