New project management articles published on the web during the week of January 7 – 13, 2013.  Dave and Sandra read all of this stuff so you don’t have to!  Recommended:

• Wayne Grant gives Scrum teams a detailed approach and tools for incremental release planning.  Excellent!
• Elizabeth Harrin interviews workplace behavioral expert Bev Flaxington, on turning gossip at work into something useful.
• Vivian Kloosterman explains why stakeholder management and mapping is key to successful project management.
• Roz Baker is an extrovert.  Not a bad thing, as long as she keeps from dominating the meeting.
• Sameer Bendre looks at how teams over-commit themselves, and the way he led one team to self-correct, via leftovers.
• Bruce Benson explains how to give your boss a quick estimate, by being prepared to give one.
• Glen Alleman notes that cost and schedule overruns are frequently driven by bad assumptions.
• Chuck Morton shows us how to improve confidence in our schedule estimates by taking a probabilistic approach.
• Kiron D. Bondale on how to use Change Requests as part of project and organizational Lessons Learned.
• David Hillson asks the tough question: is it really desirable for all projects to succeed?
• Martin Webster explains the concepts of tame problems, critical problems, and wicked problems.
• Joel Bancroft-Connors and Hogarth consider the merits of doing the hard stuff first.
• Patrick Gray looks at the economics of K-cup coffee, and finds insights into why IT service offerings appeal to the business.
• Will Kelly has some advice for those facing a machine-to-machine development project.  The “internet of things,” M2M, should be on your radar for 2013!
• Samad Aidane interviews author and leadership consultant Chester Elton on his recent book, “The Orange Revolution.”  Just 28 minutes, safe for work.
• Dave Prior interviews author Esther Derby.  Part one, just 21 minutes, safe for work.
• Beth Pariseau puts the Christmas Eve outage of Amazon’s Web Services in perspective: they still have higher availability than most enterprise data centers.
• Christina Farr reports from CES here in Las Vegas, on Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s keynote speech: Be disruptive, or you’ll end up in a landfill!
• Ian Needs of KeyedIn Solutions talks about how to apply lean thinking to your next project.
• Kelsey van Haaster continues his series comparing business analysis knowledge areas to chess.
•  Bill Krebs has some ideas for ways to improve collaboration for geographically distributed teams.
• Cheri Baker figures that extreme productivity isn’t going to make her happier.
• Chip Camden has decided to deal with his high work / life ratio.  But, how?
• Jeff Haden knows a number of remarkably successful people, and he says they share a number of unusual habits.
• Vivian Giang reports that IT jobs in the U.S. saw a 4.4% wage increase last year, and the number of jobs for software engineers will increase by 30% in this decade.
• Jim De Piante suggests that the best thing you can do with your career goals is to … toss them aside?  And be prepared to seize the opportunities!
• Scott Berkun has collected a list of posts that he believes is his “best of …”
• Peter Lynch answers the pressing question: what makes a good project manager, in a role-playing game?

Enjoy!