New project management articles published on the web during the week of July 22 – 28. We read all of this stuff so you don’t have to! Recommended:
- Angela Workman-Stark recounts how the Royal Canadian Mounted Police learned to manage and drive change, after initially failing.
- Elizabeth Harrin reflects on a heat wave, re-purposed artifacts, and the laundry, all on her first day back to work from maternity leave.
- Scott Berkun recaps chapter 8 of his book, “Making Things Happen,” on how to make good decisions as a project manager.
- Bertrand Duperrin observes an interesting side effect: effective collaboration reduces the number of workers needed for success, thus killing jobs.
- Cyndee Miller comments on a report from The Economist’s Intelligence Unit, sponsored by PMI, called “Why Good Strategies Fail.”
- Craig Brown suggests maybe we just need to simplify our strategy and focus on the main thing.
- Will Kelly summarizes what has changed in PMBOK5, and what it means to those taking the PMP exam.
- Glen Alleman offers some reading material on software cost estimating. Actually, it’s a whole reference shelf.
- Gary Nelson warns that zombies may be invading our projects. But there’s a cure, and it doesn’t involve violence.
- Ellen Gottesdiener explains how to manage scope as you discover requirements.
- Martin Webster covers the basics of how to write a project plan.
- Mike Griffiths considers the fine balance between planning away uncertainty, and executing away uncertainty.
- Barbara Shannon tells us how to make people love our projects, by limiting the number of them.
- Shim Marom raises the ethical question, “Are truthfulness and project management mutually exclusive?”
- Neil Killick considers the ethics of letting his team fix bugs they didn’t create, at the expense of the work they’ve been asked to do.
- Bruce Benson argues that your “best people” may not be the ones loudly finding fault with everyone else.
- Andy Jordan addresses the question: how do you determine the value-add of your PMO?
- J. LeRoy Ward notes some studies that indicate organizations with a lot of PMP holders tend to have more successful project outcomes.
- John A. Byrne lists ten tough questions that interviewers at the Harvard Business School MBA program are asking applicants.
- Jorge Valdés Garciatorres advocates the art of active listening.
- Kerry Wills has some opinions on what makes for an effective EMail. Mostly, it’s brevity.
Enjoy!