New project management articles published on the web during the week of March 5 – 11, 2012.  Dave and Sandra read all of this stuff so you don’t have to!  Recommended:

• Ty Kiisel looks at motivation.  “Foster a sense of making progress on meaningful work.”
• Geoff Crane recounts a dialog with his new friend, Emma Reynolds, of E3 Reloaded.  They believe that the recruitment process is broken.
• Elizabeth Harrin picked up five tips on managing information overload while she was at the Pink Elephant conference last month.
• Todd Williams tells us about his less than satisfying interaction with the head of a technology professional organization, on what might be a topic of interest for his membership.
• Katia Sullivan continues her series on applying traditional project metrics, namely earned value, to Agile projects.
• Joel Bancroft-Connors and his gorilla, Hogarth, take a look at the “slippery slope” that leads from ethical to Bernie Madoff.
• Shim Marom looks at ethical issues as possible reason for high failure rates on software projects.
• Greg Balestrero, former President and CEO at PMI, has joined IIL as a senior advisor to the team developing new training in Corporate Consciousness, Leadership and Sustainability.
• Stacy Higginbotham believes the new iPad will have significant ramifications for corporate networks.
• Johanna Rothman is finding one problem with distributed teams is time zones and daylight savings times.
• Jordan Bortz shares (and comments on) a post he found from a frustrated coder on the perils of unrealistic expectations, even in an Agile approach.
• James Grinnell looks at the difference between stretch goals and snap goals.
• Ken Ritchie considers the difficulty in explaining what we do to people who aren’t in our line of work.
• Bruce McGraw recounts the history of estimating project costs, and how it’s done these days on a project using Scrum.

Enjoy!