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!
Thank you, Dave for sharing the User Story leftovers post with your readers and the PM community!
Thanks for stopping by, Sameer! It’s always a pleasure to read about the projects you’ve been working on.