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Create a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts, Part 1: Frame the Proposal

Johanna Rothman

You want to present a talk, workshop, experience report at a conference. (Or, Decide which conference(s) to propose your content. I got the idea for this series from Chris Murman's talk at Agile 2019 and from all my shepherding for the Agile 20xx and XPxx conferences. (If About Conference Proposals.

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Create a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts, Part 5: Write Your Bio

Johanna Rothman

If your conference proposal has a speaking experience field, use that field to explain your expertise, authority, and credibility. These fields help the potential audience realize your session is the one they must attend, out of the entire conference. I want to be the reason people come to a conference. Am I always?

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 5: Summary

Johanna Rothman

I started asking if you actually need an agile approach in Part 1 and noted the 4 big problems I see. Part 2 was why we need managers in an agile transformation. Part 4 was about how “Agile” is meaningless and “agile” is an adjective that needs to be applied to something. That would be resilient.

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Create a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts, Part 2: Start with Outcomes

Johanna Rothman

Think about a conference presentation you enjoyed. Here are two things that have been true for me in my 25 years as a professional speaker: I can't depend on anyone evaluating my session for the conference to understand what I mean. And, some conferences are so impressed with themselves that they love jargon.

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What Writers Can Do About Informal Plagiarism, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

The first occurred at a conference, using an article I wrote. I went to a conference and saw someone was speaking about the project portfolio. This guy, from a famous agile consultancy, not only used my article. ” Remember, this was the premier agile consultancy at the time. Develop Your List of Topics.

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How to See a Distributed Team’s Frequency of Real-Time Communication

Johanna Rothman

When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams, we discussed the fact that we no longer needed physical face-to-face interactions. High-fidelity virtual interactions didn't exist when the guys got together at Snowbird to write the Agile Manifesto for Software Development.). I'm deaf in one ear.

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Catch Me on the People and Projects Podcast 337

Johanna Rothman

Full disclosure: I met Andy back in 1999 at the Software Development conference. I spoke with Andy Kaufman on his People and Projects Podcast 377. So we've known each other for a long time. I subscribe to his podcast because I like the way he interviews guests. He looks beyond the obvious to deeper insights.