and your job.
Clarifying your job title is particularly important when you're looking for a job or when you're trying to hire a new person. And a job title that reflects the work is equally important when you're already working and you're trying to negotiate who's going to do what. If you're expected to measure product performance, do that, no matter what your title or group name is. And, if you're negotiating a job title or group name, specify the work you'll perform. If we can agree on expectations across inside our organizations, maybe we'll
eventually agree on titles across the industry.
Acknowledgements
I thank Esther Derby, Dale Emery, Elisabeth Hendrickson, and Dwayne Phillips for their review of this column.
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About the author
Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” helps organizational leaders see problems and risks in their product development. She helps them recognize potential “gotchas,” seize opportunities, and remove impediments. Johanna was the Agile 2009 conference chair. She is the technical editor for Agile Connection and the author of these books:
- Manage Your Job Search
- Hiring Geeks That Fit
- Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects
- The 2008 Jolt Productivity award-winning Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
- Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management
- Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets and Science of Hiring Technical People
Johanna is working on a book about agile program management. She writes columns for Stickyminds.com and projectmanagementcom and blogs on her website, jrothman.com, as well on createadaptablelife.com.
