New project management articles published on the web during the week of July 1 – 7. We read all of this stuff so you don’t have to! Recommended:
- Andy Jordan gets back to the basics on PMO’s. Most important: why do you want one, and what do you expect it to do?
- Elizabeth Harrin offers some advice to entry-level project managers in the UK – CAPM or Prince2?
- John Laverick reflects on the impact of the recent influx of “new” contract project managers in the UK market.
- Patrick Richard summarizes his observations on the #NoEstimates movement.
- Craig Brown summarizes with conversations over beers with Neil Killick on #NoEstimates.
- Glen Alleman lists “an immutable set of questions that needs answers before we can determine the probability of success for our project.”
- Ken Hardin looks at reviewing the current-state for risks, prior to starting a new IT project.
- Tristan Wember has summarized and provided links to his recent series of articles on risk management.
- Shim Marom is annoyed with the way the public discussion of project failure is presented.
- Soma Bhattacharya has a few getting-started tips for her friend, an “accidental project manager.”
- Tatyana Mishell shares an interesting infographic: “Four lessons in Project Management from the Renaissance.”
- Jesse Fewell looks at a scenario for estimating in a release planning meeting for a program involving four Agile teams. Note the excellent list of assumptions!
- Johanna Rothman has published part four of her series on organizing an Agile program.
- Chuck Morton recalls being in an organization that used the Microsoft Solutions Framework. But not very well.
- Pawel Brodzinski reports on the Kanban Leadership Retreat, and his presentation.
- Bruce Benson argues that scope creep should be mandatory, especially for long-duration projects. Should we call them “mid-course corrections?”
- Bas de Baar offers an interesting alternative to culture engineering and driving change – play!
- Linda Mitton sends in a report from the phishing pond. Yes, you really need to be skeptical of every EMail!
- Kerry Wills disses the cubical-dwelling co-worker who insists on using the speakerphone for every call. Give ’em a vasectomy discount coupon!
Enjoy!