Leadership and Managing People with Johanna Rothman

We often talk about Management and Leadership. Management focuses on planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling whereas Leadership is about providing a high-level vision for the teams to attain a common goal. We have recently featured Johanna Rothman in a video interview with us where she shared her expertise on important aspects of Management. She shared her distinguished thoughts on leading and serving as per her experiences while working with teams. She says we need to lead people in order to serve our customers.

We also discussed the important aspects of “Innovation” and “Building the environment in an organization”. She also highlighted that having short feedback loops will help us learn faster and touch upon a very talked about topic – hiring during a remote environment.

Interviewee: Johanna Rothman (Managing Product Development – Author, Consultant, Speaker at Rothman Consulting Group Inc.)

Johanna Rothman, is 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. She is also a product development expert, with a focus on how to use agility at all levels, and worked with agile teams at all levels—leaders, teams, and the entire organization.

She is an author of over two hundred articles and several 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 and many more

Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)

Difference Between DevOps and DevSecOps with Larry Maccherone

In the past, the role of security was for a specific team in the final stage of development. Now, in the collaborative framework of DevOps, security is a shared responsibility integrated from end to end. In our recent interviews, we featured Larry Maccherone who is DevSecOps Transformation at Contrast Security. He answered some of our basic questions – What is the difference between DevOps and DevSecOps?

Larry said it’s a mindset that is so important, which led to coining the term “DevSecOps’ ‘. It emphasizes the need to build a security foundation into DevOps initiatives. He shared his experience when the DevOps movement started and what inspired him to share DevSecOps Manifesto. He said the cultural transformation mentality made him think of DevSecOps Manifesto. We also spoke about identification of security flaws, he integrated security flaws with the feedback mechanism. We discussed many of his other incidents that he experienced. Larry also spoke in detail about DevSecOps Transformation, challenges he faced and many more tales.

Interviewee: Larry Maccherone(DevSecOps Transformation at Contrast Security)

Larry served as Principal for his namesake consulting firm where he worked with clients like IBM, Adobe, Oracle, USAA, and Intuit. Before branching out on his own, he became an internationally-recognized author and speaker on Agile Cultural Transformations and Published the largest ever study quantifying the impact of Agile Development Practices while serving as the Director of Analytics and Research for Rally Software.

Larry firmly believes in learning by doing so in his spare time, he is the author of several open source projects which get hundreds of downloads a month and one, node-local storage, which gets over 300,000 downloads a month.

Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)