New project management articles published on the web during the week of July 16 – 22, 2012. Dave and Sandra read all of this stuff so you don’t have to! Recommended:
- Brian Bozzuto explains, “A good agile project blends two key capabilities: an ability to change with an ability to rapidly learn.”
- Elizabeth Harrin gives us a high-level view of the project management challenges faced in building the Olympic Park in London.
- Joel Bancroft-Connors and Hogarth consider Yet Another Firefox Iteration, and note that some of the loudest complainers are Agile practitioners.
- Jim De Piante wants us to stick to the basics. “Don’t let the allure of the sophisticated or the novel, distract us from the value of fundamentals.”
- Mike Donoghue reflects on the old adage, “for want of a nail.” We’re project managers – we get paid to sweat the details.
- Andrea Brockmeier wants us to sit down with our project sponsor and put together the list of absolute must-haves, from this sponsor, for this project.
- Glen Alleman repeats John Goodpasture’s criteria for knowing whether you’re actually doing risk management.
- Jordan Bortz summarizes a new report on Agile from analyst firm Voke, Inc. “The Agile movement is designed to sell services,” they say. Food fight!
- Shlomo Sprung recaps the late Stephen Covey’s “& Habits of Highly Effective People. Dr. Covey passed away this week at 79.
- Gia Costella interviews PBT Group program manager Andreas Bartsch, who explains why business intelligence is key to successful project management
- Patrick Gray explains that IT is becoming less about technical skills than about architecting solutions from readily available services.
- Peter Saddington offers some thoughts on being one of several Agile Coaches at one client site.
- Bruce McGraw says it isn’t a question of Waterfall versus Agile, but which blend of techniques is appropriate for the work at hand.
- Jesse Fewell argues for the transition to Big Agile, based on three key strategies.
- Johanna Rothman says, “If you start predicting velocity and you start predicting which stories a team can commit to, you are not doing agile. You are doing command-and-control in iterations.”
- Sam Palani has been leading complex enterprise initiatives using Agile for the last few months, and so he gives us his take on defining the Minimum Viable Product.
- Ted Hardy shares an anecdote that illustrates the power of … illustration.
- Kerry Wills shares his approach for managing issues.
- Michelle Symonds addresses success criteria, and how to know if your project has been successful. Hint: it’s not about spending the right number of dollars.
- Jodi Ashbrook lists three keys to servant leadership.
- PMI announced the winners of their annual research awards at the 2012 Research and Education Conference in Limerick, Ireland.
Enjoy!